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Alamri, Abdullah – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This experimental study investigated the impact of explicit and implicit feedback on acquiring Arabic grammar for second learners. The participants were forty-five lower-intermediate male participants studying Arabic as a second language in a Saudi Arabian language institution. All participants were equally divided into three groups; the explicit…
Descriptors: Grammar, Feedback (Response), Second Language Instruction, Males
Alaa Alzahrani; Hanan Almalki – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
A robust finding in psycholinguistics is that prior language experience influences subsequent language processing. This phenomenon is known as syntactic priming. Most of the empirical support for L2 syntactic priming comes from lab-based experiments. However, this evidence might not reflect how priming occurs in typical language activities in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Arabic, Oral Reading, Story Reading
Ferran Gesa; Neus Frigolé; Maria-del-Mar Suárez – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Most students and practitioners commonly see grammar teaching and learning as both tedious and unattractive experiences. In this sense, more innovative ways of presenting foreign language grammar are needed. One such novel approach is Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT), which has proven to be beneficial in a wide array of disciplines, including language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Teaching Methods
Nurah S. Alfares – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2025
Vocabulary is crucial for mastering English as a Foreign Language (EFL) skills. Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) platforms like Wordwall can enhance active learning by providing multiple-choice, missing, and matching words. The current study aimed to addresses the impact of the Wordwall platform on EFL learners in Saudi Arabia. This study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Wei Ren; Shaofeng Li; Xiaoxuan Lü – Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study investigates the effects of instruction on second language (L2) pragmatic competence and the factors that moderate the effectiveness of pragmatics instruction. A comprehensive literature search yielded 29 primary studies that involved 1,898 L2 learners, generating 54 effect sizes for between-group contrasts. Aggregated results showed…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Pragmatics, Direct Instruction, Teaching Methods
Cristina Cunha-Perez; Miguel Arevalillo-Herraez; David Arnau – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
This article introduces a set of teaching strategies to enhance second language learning for students with Down syndrome (DS) enrolled in an English course covering material from the first two years of primary school. A set of instructional support strategies has been defined and integrated into an online learning software, developed ad hoc to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Students with Disabilities, Down Syndrome
Ju-May Wen; Hai-Dung Do; Eric Zhi-Feng Liu; Chun-Hung Lin; Shihping Kevin Huang – SAGE Open, 2023
This study investigated the effect of educational board games and the creative thinking spiral teaching strategy (CTSTS) on the learning outcomes of beginner-level Chinese language learners. Two dimensions were measured: learning outcome and writing ability. A total of 82 learners from one university in Taiwan participated in this study.…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Educational Games, Creative Thinking, Teaching Methods
Mardiani, Ridha; Hanifah, Merina – Athens Journal of Education, 2023
We have to admit that drama activities can give a variety of benefits for English foreign language learners of all ages in Indonesia. This article describes how a collaborative drama project could enhance twenty-seven undergraduate students in the sixth semester of the English education study program of a small private college in Cimahi, West…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Drama, Undergraduate Students
Ke Yu – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
Research syntheses that evaluate bilingual program effectiveness have grown exponentially since the 1980s. Contradictory to earlier anti-bilingual findings, these research syntheses, including statistical meta-analyses, have converged on findings supporting L1 teaching. This study examines the methodological soundness of eight statistical…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Program Effectiveness, Meta Analysis, Standards
Anh Thi Nguyen; Thi Thuy Loan Nguyen; Thi My Huong Nguyen – MEXTESOL Journal, 2024
While Task-based Language Teaching (TBLT) has been widely researched and accepted as a potentially powerful teaching method in language education around the world, research examining the teachers' beliefs about the impacts of a training on TBLT to date has remained limited. In Vietnam, studies on this topic were scarce (Nguyen & Jaspaert,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Bunyamin Celik; Saban Kara – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
Thanks to their advantages, technology-integrated tools have risen in English classes, especially in the last two decades. In this respect, a paucity of research has been conducted to measure the influence of web-enhanced tools in improving linguistic skills. However, a gap in the literature has been observed about the effects of…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), College Students
Min Zhang – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2024
The purpose of this article is to investigate how 5G and wireless communication technologies (5G+WCT) might be applied to English language classroom programs in higher education. The paper describes the complimentary roles of 5G and wireless communication technologies in English language teaching, includes student data collecting and…
Descriptors: Internet, Technology Uses in Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Cho, Juhyung; Song, Mi Jeong – English Teaching, 2023
This study aimed to investigate the effect of visual input enhancement (VIE) on the comprehension of reading texts and the learning of two grammatical forms: English relative clauses and articles. Individual learners' working memory (WM) capacity was also tested to explore its impact on the effectiveness of VIE. A total of 48 Korean college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Effectiveness, Visual Stimuli, Short Term Memory
Bessadet, Latéfa – Arab World English Journal, 2022
The present study investigates the benefits of implementing drama techniques in English language teaching. It also focuses on the means and strategies of creating a learner-centered classroom to enhance English as Foreign Language learners' communication skills. Two dramatic techniques used in the research are "exploiting a scripted…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Drama
Khalid M. A. Sheirah; Ahmad Tawalbeh; Rula Abu-Elrob – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2024
This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of training on non-native speakers of Arabic at a university in Saudi Arabia from their point of view by determining the degree of their satisfaction in terms of four aspects: benefits of the offered training, trainers' performance, organizational effectiveness of the training program and the…
Descriptors: Arabic, College Faculty, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning