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Chaoyang Jin; Jing Yan – Language Learning Journal, 2025
This systematic review aims to explore how task complexity and task sequencing affect the complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) of second language performance. Through an analysis of studies conducted between 2012 and 2021, this review investigates the characteristics of the studies, operationalisation of task complexity, measurements of CAF,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Difficulty Level, Language Fluency, Accuracy
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Tereza Švarcová – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons for low retention rates among students in the Chinese classes in upper secondary education in the Czech Republic. The principal research question was whether Chinese characters were the main reason why many students decided to stop attending their Chinese classes. Semi-structured interviews with…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
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John R. Baker – Language Learning Journal, 2024
The idea that reading model essays facilitates better writing is generally accepted in second language writing literature. As such, anthologies of model essays are often selected for inclusion in writing centre self-access library shelves. When selecting these texts, readability is often considered via the application of quantitative readability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laboratories, Writing (Composition), Word Recognition
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Salwa Mohamed – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Text classification and text gradation are important for language teachers. Profiling and readability studies examine textual and linguistic features that determine text difficulty. Arabic, as an under-resourced language, suffers from a lack of such studies which results in material developers and textbook writers relying on their intuitions and…
Descriptors: Classification, Language Teachers, Arabic, Second Language Learning
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Mahmoud Abdi Tabari – Language Learning Journal, 2024
Despite extensive research on task planning in L2 writing contexts, the optimal length of pre-task planning time remains uncertain due to varying lengths used in TBLT studies. This study aimed to address this gap by investigating the effects of different pre-task planning times (nil, 5, 10, and 15 minutes) on the argumentative writing task…
Descriptors: Planning, Time, Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
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Natova, Ivanka – Language Learning Journal, 2021
The purpose of this article is to present qualitative and quantitative tools to assist teachers and authors of examination materials in their preliminary assessment of text complexity/difficulty according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The qualitative scales were compiled specially for this study, based on previous…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Rating Scales, Guidelines
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Coffey, Simon – Language Learning Journal, 2022
This article reflects on the epistemological steamrolling that the 2021 Ofsted Curriculum Research Review (OCRR) accomplishes: in part, by the positioning of the problem and solution through highly selective cherry-picking (omitting key causal factors); in part, through the discursive move of acknowledging complexity before offering simple and…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
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Marashi, Hamid; Erami, Neda – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study was an attempt to investigate the effect of choice theory-based instruction on Iranian EFL learners' vocabulary achievement. To fulfil the purpose of this study, 60 female advanced EFL learners were selected from among a total number of 90 learners through their performance on a piloted sample Cambridge ESOL Certificate of Advanced…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Pretests Posttests, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
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Wong, Simpson W. L.; Dealey, Jessica; Leung, Vina W. H.; Mok, Peggy P. K. – Language Learning Journal, 2021
Despite English being a core and compulsory part of the curriculum for Chinese English-as-a-second-language (ESL) learners, it is nevertheless often highly challenging for them. This is partly due to the discrepancies between English's citation and spoken form and the lack of recognition this pronunciation receives within ESL classrooms. With this…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phonemes
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Schaffler, Debbie; Nel, Mirna; Booysen, Ria – Language Learning Journal, 2021
The purpose of this study was to develop a deeper understanding of a group of South African English Second Language (ESL) Foundation Phase teachers' understanding of, skills in, and training needs to teach phonological awareness (PA) effectively. A qualitative research approach placed within an interpretative paradigm was utilised in two phases.…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Oshima, Ryoko; Harvey, Sharon – Language Learning Journal, 2017
With anglophone countries now experiencing unprecedented levels of ethnic and linguistic diversity, it is considered increasingly important that young people learn to communicate in ways which are effective for the multilingual and intercultural contexts they live in, will work in and will travel to. One of the key vehicles for promoting and…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Academic Persistence, Higher Education
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Pauwels, Paul – Language Learning Journal, 2018
To date, research into vocabulary learning strategies has mainly made use of questionnaires about studying preferences in general or of interviews following a specific study task, focusing on finding out which strategies were most popular. The present investigation attempts to provide more insight into the effects of the parameters of timing and…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Heidari-Shahreza, Mohammad Ali; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Language Learning Journal, 2016
Based on a prior study by Chen and Truscott, the present study investigated the possible effects of repetition (repeated exposure) and L1 lexicalization on the incidental acquisition and retention of 10 English target words by 90 Persian-speaking EFL learners at an Iranian university. Seven aspects of vocabulary knowledge were measured, including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Retention (Psychology)
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Hagger-Vaughan, Lesley – Language Learning Journal, 2016
Whether the study of languages should be a core element of a balanced and broadly based curriculum for all pupils in England's 11-16 state-funded secondary schools is also part of a wider debate concerning how to harness England's rich linguistic and cultural diversity and improve the quality and range of language skills of the country. While…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Secondary School Students, Educational Policy
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Inoue, Chihiro – Language Learning Journal, 2016
The constructs of complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) have been used extensively to investigate learner performance on second language tasks. However, a serious concern is that the variables used to measure these constructs are sometimes used conventionally without any empirical justification. It is crucial for researchers to understand how…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Syntax, Accuracy, Task Analysis
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