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Direct linkGavin Bui; Weiran Zhang – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This mixed-methods study investigated the impact of musical lyrics and working memory capacities on second language (L2) English reading comprehension among adult Chinese native speakers. Participants were 57 adult ESL learners with advanced L2 proficiency, divided into high and low working memory capacity groups based on a pre-test. They…
Descriptors: Music, Singing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chen, Ken; Gu, Lei; Zuo, Hongshan; Bai, Qiaoyan – SAGE Open, 2021
The purpose of this article aims to analyze the effect of word-word space in written Chinese to advanced non-native speakers when they read and process Mandarin texts. The participants have performed one online reaction time experiment and another one offline pencil-paper test. The results indicate that the structure of word segmentation in…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Download full textLiu, Xiaofei F. – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2018
The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship between Chinese MA students' depth of vocabulary knowledge, their use of L2 vocabulary learning strategy (VLS), and the types of L2 contact they encountered while studying abroad. 165 Chinese MA students from a British university participated in the study by filling out the questionnaire…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Factor Analysis
McCabe, Anne – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This article provides results of analysis of data collected from online Spanish-medium subject courses taught in Spanish by the same teacher to students whose first language is English. The students are at a high-intermediate to advanced level (B2-C1), and are enrolled at an American university in Madrid in courses centring on topics of Spanish…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication
Singhasak, Piyahathai; Methitham, Phongsakorn – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study aims at examining Thainess as a writing strategy used in non-literary texts written by non-professional bilingual writers. These writers are advanced language learners who are pursuing their Master's degree in English. Seven English narratives of their language learning experiences were analyzed based on Kachruvian's framework of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Transfer of Training
Elgort, Irina – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This study investigates differences in the language and discourse characteristics of course blogs and traditional academic submissions produced in English by native (L1) and advanced second language (L2) writers. One hundred and fifty-two texts generated by 38 graduate students within the context of the same Master's level course were analysed…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Journals, Electronic Journals, Writing Assignments
Liu, Xin; Hale, Sandra – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2018
Courtroom interpreting requires a high level of accuracy due to the strategic use of language in such an institutional setting. It is generally agreed among interpreting scholars that quality interpreting in court should accurately relay both propositional content and illocutionary force of the original utterances. This high standard of accuracy…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Court Litigation, Translation, Accuracy
Shei, Chi-Chiang – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2005
This article addresses the issue of second language writing, with English as a second language, for advanced learners in a UK university. Confirming research findings about the limitations of second language writing, we examine the translation commentaries written by 14 Chinese students on a MA translation programme and find learner problems in…
Descriptors: Translation, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
