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María Luquin; María del Pilar García Mayo – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
This study investigated how the inclusion of model texts as a feedback technique affected students' task motivation and engagement in writing tasks. Adopting a longitudinal design, 60 English as a foreign language (EFL) children (aged 11-12) were divided into three groups: a treatment group, a long-term treatment group, and a control group. The…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Amerstorfer, Carmen M. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2020
Learners of foreign languages (L2s) apply strategies to support learning processes and L2 development. They select strategies according to their individual needs and preferences and adjust their strategic actions to suit situational circumstances and contextual conditions. A holistic investigation of strategic L2 learning processes requires the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies
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Pawlak, Miroslaw; Szyszka, Magdalena – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
Disparate goals that learners might have in learning second or foreign language pronunciation and the scant classroom time that can be dedicated to teaching this target language subsystem dictate that learner autonomy is of vital importance in this case and adept use of pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) can be viewed as key to the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preferences
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Amerstorfer, Carmen M. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
Has the "Strategy Inventory for Language Learning" (SILL) passed its expiry date? The SILL (Oxford, 1990) was designed as a self-evaluation tool to measure the frequency of language learning strategies used by foreign and second language (L2) learners. With simple mathematics, learners can analyze their strategy preferences overall and…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Uzun, Levent – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The present study discusses the concepts of "education" and "training," while also highlighting the paradigm wars of the positivistic and naturalistic views, beginning with the age of ancient philosophies and continuing to the latest era of postmodernism. Additionally, language education is examined considering the linguistic…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Baran-Lucarz, Malgorzata – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The paper reports on a study designed to examine the relationship between the thickness of ego boundaries and attainments in FL pronunciation after a clearly structured form-focused practical course of phonetics. The research involved 45 first-year students of the Institute of English Studies in Wroclaw, Poland, who had attended around thirty…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonetics
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Wach, Aleksandra – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Within the communicative approach to English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching, the aims of instruction are primarily to enable learners to communicate; hence, functional and communicative intelligibility has become the goal of pronunciation training. On the other hand, contemporary approaches to EFL teaching leave sufficient room for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students