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Direct linkAl-Murtadha, Mutahar – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
Willingness to communicate (WTC) research has focused mostly on identifying factors that influence second language (L2) WTC in ESL contexts. This study differs by examining the effects of a 6-week treatment aimed at enhancing WTC in a group of 206 Yemeni rural high school EFL learners. Classes were randomly assigned to a control group (n = 102) or…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Goal Orientation
Abdolrezapour, Parisa – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
The paper reports a study on an emotionally-loaded dynamic assessment procedure used with Iranian EFL learners. It focuses on the effect of using emotional intelligence characteristics (based on Goleman's framework) as a tool for motivating learners while performing reading tasks. The study with 50 intermediate learners aged 12-15 used three…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Reading Improvement, Intervention
Download full textStarkey-Perret, Rebecca; Belan, Sophie; Lê Ngo, Thi Phuong; Rialland, Guillaume – Research-publishing.net, 2017
This chapter presents and discusses the results of a large-scale pilot study carried out in the context of a task-based, blended-learning Business English programme in the Foreign Languages and International Trade department of a French University . It seeks to explore the effects of pre-task planned Focus on Form (FonF) on accuracy in students'…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Argondizzo, Carmen; Sasso, Maria I. – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2016
This article offers an overview of research strategies currently in use at the Language Centre of the University of Calabria and aimed at observing university students' learning habits when they are asked to use the European Language Portfolio during language courses. We present evidence of how experimental groups of students belonging to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Control Groups
Balci, Özgül – Higher Education Studies, 2017
This study investigated the effects of learning-style based activities on students' reading comprehension skills and self-efficacy perceptions in English foreign language classes. A quasi-experimental, matching-only pretest-posttest control group design was utilized. The study was conducted with freshmen university students majoring in Elementary…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Self Efficacy, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
Khaghaninejad, Mohammad Saber – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2014
This study was an attempt to investigate the possible effect of intertextuality-aware instruction of reading passages on a sample of intermediate EFL learners of both genders. First, the intertextuality deployed through the reading passages of the study's course-book was focused inspired by Fairclough's (192) framework in terms of genre, text…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Long, Michael H.; Gor, Kira; Jackson, Scott – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
With Russian as the target language, a proof of concept study was undertaken to determine whether it is possible to identify linguistic features, control over which is implicated in progress on the Interagency Linguistic Roundtable (ILR) proficiency scale, thereby better to inform the instructional process. Following its development in an…
Descriptors: Phonology, Syntax, Measures (Individuals), Russian
