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Factors Contributing to Speaking Anxiety and Anxiety Reduction Techniques in Thai Adult EFL Learners
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Natthakit Suratin; Virasuda Sribayak – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The aim of the study was to identify the factors that contribute to speaking anxiety in Thai adult EFL learners working in an online media company and enrolled in an English course provided by the company, as well as to discover the anxiety reduction techniques used by these learners. The results showed that significant contributors to speaking…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Speech Communication
Word-Study for Arabic Speakers to Read English
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Rachel Dawn Keller – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Learning to read in English is difficult for adult English language learners due to their diverse background, their level of experience with literacy in their first language, and their reason and desire for wanting to learn to read in English. Teachers of adult language learners must consider the educational and language experiences of adults…
Descriptors: Arabic, Spelling, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence, English (Second Language)
Systemic Approach in Teaching Grammar to Adult Learners.
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Meskhi, Anna – 2002
This article addresses difficulty in English-as-a-Second-Language grammar instruction, offering the systemic approach as an alternative method of teaching grammar. Observation of the process of learning various grammatical rules reveals a tendency to make two types of errors (formational and functional). Analysis of grammatical errors made by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Holistic Approach
Errors and Adverbs: What We Teach and What ESL Students Actually Do.
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Dissosway, Patricia; Hartford, Beverly – 1984
The misuse and misunderstanding of adverbs by nonnative speakers of English are examined, and the approaches of commonly-used grammar texts to these problems are discussed. Two separate studies provide information for examining adverb use: a longitudinal study of the written work of 23 adult students in two low-to-intermediate level intensive…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adverbs, English (Second Language), Error Patterns
Patterns of Corrective Feedback and Uptake in an Adult ESL Classroom.
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Panova, Iliana; Lyster, Roy – TESOL Quarterly, 2002
Synthesizes findings from observational classroom research on corrective feedback and presents an observational study of patterns of error treatment n an adult English-as-a-Second-Language classroom. Examines the range and types of feedback used by the teacher and their relationship to learner uptake and immediate repair of error. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Databases, English (Second Language)
RELC Journal, Volumes 19-24.
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Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (Singapore). Regional Language Centre. – 1992
The 12 issues of the second language teaching and research journal, spanning 1988-1993 contain articles on a variety of language teaching and learning issues. A substantial proportion concern English-as-a-Second-Language instruction, both general and academic, in a number of Southeast Asian cultural contexts. Regional variations of English are…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context, Discourse Analysis