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Kara, Ketevan; Eveyik-Aydin, Evrim – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) aims to provide language learners with considerable amount of comprehensible input through stories for language and literacy development. Although it has already demonstrated high potential with adolescent and adult learners of English, its implementation within the context of very young…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Reading Instruction, Story Telling
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Dokchandra, Dentisak – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
The purposes of this study were to investigate the levels of receptive and productive knowledge of English collocations of Thai EFL university students and identify the types of grammatical and lexical collocations reported as most and least known by the students. The participants were 286 third-year regular students affiliated with four academic…
Descriptors: College Students, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alsamadani, Hashem Ahmed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
Needs analysis can be a vital asset for teachers of English for specific purposes (ESP) to identify their learners' key requirements or needs and determine the areas in which they are lacking skills. Against this background, this study was undertaken during the academic year 2015-16 to define the English language needs of engineering students…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, English for Special Purposes, Engineering Education, Second Language Learning
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Biria, Reza; Boshrabadi, Abbas Mehrabi; Nikbakht, Elham – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
Human cognitive competence represents individuals' subconscious knowledge of abilities, talents, and mental skills collectively called "multiple intelligences (MIs)", which play a pivotal role in facilitating human learning. Thus, the main objective of the present study was to determine the magnitude of the relationship existing between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiple Intelligences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Nowbakht, Mohammad; Shahnazari, Mohammadtaghi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
In the present study, the comparative effects of comprehensible input, output and corrective feedback on the receptive acquisition of L2 vocabulary items were investigated. Two groups of beginning EFL learners participated in the study. The control group received comprehensible input only, while the experimental group received input and was…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Linguistic Input, Pretests Posttests, Feedback (Response)