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Al Ghamdi, Rowida – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study investigates the politeness strategies employed by Saudi EFL teachers when expressing their disagreements on Twitter. It examines the factors affecting Saudi EFL teachers' choice of politeness and disagreement strategies. It compares Saudi EFL teachers' disagreement expressions with those of American ESL teachers on Twitter. Four…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
Qiong Wu – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) started a new approach to viewing metaphors in languages. Traditionally, metaphor is considered as one of the rhetorical devices. Conceptual metaphor, however, is an approach for us to understand abstract notions in terms of relatively concrete concepts. The HEART metaphor in Chinese…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Figurative Language, Chinese, English (Second Language)
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Barrientos, Fernanda – Second Language Research, 2023
The extent to which exposure to new phonemic contrasts (i.e. contrasts that are present in the L2 but not in the L1) will lead to the creation of a new phonemic category in L2 speakers, as well as the phonological nature of these categories, remains an open question insofar as there is no consensus on whether acquiring a new contrast would result…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phonology
Hitoshi Nishizawa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many studies evidence the flexibility of speech perception in the first language (L1), which allows rapid adaptation to unfamiliar foreign accents. Two influential studies by Bradlow and Bent (2008) and a follow-up study by Baese-Berk et al. (2013) found that increased variability as a function of the number of talkers and accents facilitated the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Auditory Perception, Pronunciation
Brandon Kramer – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The importance of input on language learning cannot be overstated. One method of providing input to learners at a level that is appropriate for them is called extensive reading, in which learners read an abundance of texts. In practice, for learners of English as a second or foreign language, these texts are often books that have been written and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input, Reading Materials
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Li, Shuai; Wen, Ting; Li, Xian; Feng, Yali; Lin, Chuan – Language Testing, 2023
This study compared holistic and analytic marking methods for their effects on parameter estimation (of examinees, raters, and items) and rater cognition in assessing speech act production in L2 Chinese. Seventy American learners of Chinese completed an oral Discourse Completion Test assessing requests and refusals. Four first-language (L1)…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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Sögüt, Sibel; Keçik, Ilknur – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
This study investigates the use of high-frequency cognitive verbs - think and believe - in Turkish L2 learners' interlanguage, both in terms of their verb senses and complementation patterns. In line with this purpose, a Sentence Production Task consisting of context-independent items and a Sentence Completion Task consisting of context-dependent…
Descriptors: Verbs, Word Frequency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Simonchyk, Ala; Darcy, Isabelle – Second Language Research, 2023
The study investigates the relationship between lexical encoding and production in order to establish whether learners are able to produce a difficult contrast in words that they merged in their mental lexicon. Forty American English learners of Russian were tested on their production and lexical encoding of familiar and highly-frequent words with…
Descriptors: Correlation, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lôc Thi Huynh Nguyên; Fredricka L. Stoller – English Teaching Forum, 2024
As opportunities for face-to-face teaching, in-person conference attendance, travel, professional exchanges, digital collaboration, and formal institutional and organizational partnerships have gained traction, English language teaching (ELT) professionals have the chance, once again, to engage in numerous types of collaboration. In this article,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wattananukij, Wattana; Pongpairoj, Nattama – rEFLections, 2022
The research investigated pragmatic transfer in responses to English tag questions by L1 Thai learners based on Interlanguage Pragmatics, specifically pragmatic transfer (Kasper & Blum-Kulka, 1993). The L1 Thai learners were categorized into two groups according to their English proficiency levels: advanced and intermediate. Oral and written…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kato, Fumie; Spring, Ryan; Mori, Chikako – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This quasi-experimental study reports on the outcomes of a video-synchronous learning program in which an element of project-based foreign language learning was integrated. The project chosen was to cooperatively create a homepage. American students learning Japanese in the United States and Japanese students learning English in Japan made pairs…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Student Projects, Active Learning, Videoconferencing
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Alemi, Minoo; Moakhar, Niayesh Pazoki; Rezanejad, Atefeh – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Language knowledge is not limited to linguistic competence; cultural norms of a society affect the way people communicate. In fact, culture, tradition, and values are realized and manifested through language and the use of units known as speech acts. The current study sought to explore the strategies used by 200 native Iranian speakers of Persian,…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Indo European Languages, Speech Acts
Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Editor; Bridget Goodman, Editor – Multilingual Matters, 2025
While substantial research has looked backward at the colonial history of language and forward to the potential of decolonizing English for linguistic justice, there is a lack of investigation looking "inward" at the lived raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual scholars. This edited collection opens a healing space for storytelling…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Race, Language Variation, Language Attitudes
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Tahara, Nobuko – English Language Teaching, 2022
The present study attempts to identify difficulties that Japanese students encounter with metadiscursive nouns in writing second language (L2) argumentation essays. Metadiscursive nouns are abstract and unspecific nouns which can serve as cohesive markers by retrieving their meanings in the text where they occur. Using a selected number of nouns…
Descriptors: Nouns, Persuasive Discourse, Phrase Structure, Essays
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Del Saz, María – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Many college students set out on Study Abroad Programs to other countries in which the variant of the foreign language spoken in the region differs from the variant to which learners have been exposed. This study explores the perception of L2 Western Andalusian Spanish aspiration of word-final /s/ by L1 American English listeners, in relation to…
Descriptors: College Students, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Language Variation
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