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Direct linkSamaneh Ghaneiarani; Sayyed Mohammad Alavi; Shiva Kaivanpanah – Language Testing in Asia, 2024
Despite the widespread use of Learner-Oriented Assessment (LOA) in (English as a Foreign Language EFL classes, concerns persist regarding its suitability for contexts such as Iran. Drawing on Carless's (SHE, 31:219-233, 2006) criteria for LOA, the present study examined the effectiveness of peer and teacher feedback in an academic writing course.…
Descriptors: Writing Ability, Student Centered Learning, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Liman Kaban, Aysegül; Karadeniz, Sirin – SAGE Open, 2021
The young generation, born into digital technologies and called Millennials or the Y-Generation, are raised in a world where everybody has a computer in their pockets (Hamari et al., 2014), and they are constantly engaged in digital activities. However, research on the impact of digital devices on learners' educational performance and motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Reading Comprehension
Download full textÜzüm, Burhan; Pesen, Ata – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
This study was conducted to demonstrate the effect of the layered curriculum on the academic achievement of the 9th grade students in English lesson. Based on quantitative research method, pretest-posttest matched with control group pattern, one of the quasi-experimental designs, was used in the study. The study group consisted of 67 ninth grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Grade 9, Student Centered Learning
Deng, Lijun – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study designs a project-based flipped learning model for Business English Translation course and tests its efficacy by an empirical study on 65 third-year English major students divided into the experimental class and control class. This study incorporates the learning, teaching and assessment activities of both the students and teachers into…
Descriptors: Translation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Alrayah, Hassan – English Language Teaching, 2018
This research-paper aims at examining the effectiveness of cooperative learning activities in enhancing EFL learners' fluency. The researcher has used the descriptive approach, recorded interviews for testing fluency as tools of data collection and the software program SPSS as a tool for the statistical treatment of data. Research sample consists…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Learning Activities, Oral Language
Aljaraideh, Yousef Ahmad – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2020
This study aims to identify the impact of digital storytelling (DST) on academic achievement of sixth grade students in English language and their motivation towards it in Jordan. DST plays an important role in the maintenance and progress of English language. The research uses a quasi- experimental method. The sample of the study consists of (50)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Story Telling
Hamrick, Phillip; Sachs, Rebecca – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
Artificial linguistic systems (ALSs) offer many potential benefits for second language acquisition (SLA) research. Nonetheless, their use in experiments with posttest-only designs can give rise to internal validity problems depending on the baseline that is employed to establish evidence of learning. Researchers in this area often compare…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis, Control Groups
Enayati, Fatemeh; Gilakjani, Abbas Pourhosein – International Journal of Language Education, 2020
Regarding the large amount of vocabulary that learners should learn and the limited amount of time available in the EFL classes, Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is considered as an attractive option for learning. One specific benefit of using CALL vocabulary instruction is to provide systematic repetition of words, ensuring that learned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Güngör, Zühre Yilmaz – Online Submission, 2018
The objective of this study is to detect the effect of using cooperative learning for teaching idioms to first grade students, learning French as a foreign language. The study was carried out on two groups -- experimental group and control group -- during the academic year of 2017-2018 in the lesson "Reading in French". The lesson was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, Language Patterns, Second Language Learning
Karimi, Parvin; Lotfi, Ahmad Reza; Biria, Reza – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The present study sought to investigate the effectiveness of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in enhancing Iranian aviation students' attitude and motivation in dealing with the highly specialized features of aviation English. To this end, 40 pilots studying at Mahan air in Tehran were randomly placed in the experimental (n = 20)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aviation Education, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning
Erlidawati; SyarfunI – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of Cooperative Integrated and Composition (CIRC) in teaching reading comprehension to the third semester students of English department at IAIN Lhokseumawe. The population of this study was all the students in the third semester and the samples are unit-1 and unit-2. The sample was chosen by using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Duman, Burcu; Yavuz, Özlem Kuuk – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of this research is to define the effect of project- based learning on students' attitude towards English classes. The study group of the research consisted of 51 students attending grade 10 at an Anatolian high school in the Western Black Sea region of Turkey. In the quantitatively designed research, the "control group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Active Learning, Student Attitudes
Kavani, Rezvan; Amjadiparvar, Alireza – Cogent Education, 2018
The current study set out to investigate the effect of strategy-based instruction (SBI) on motivation, self-regulated learning, and reading comprehension ability of Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. To fulfil the purposes of this study, 55 intermediate EFL learners were selected and randomly assigned to two groups including a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Ho, Shu-Chun; Hsieh, Sheng-Wen; Sun, Pei-Chen; Chen, Cheng-Ming – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
The increasing advance of mobile devices and wireless technologies has generated great interest in ubiquitous learning (u-learning) among academia, practitioners, and policy makers. However, design elements that incorporate learning styles and learning strategies into u-learning system applications in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) education…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cognitive Style
Soltanpour, Fatemeh; Valizadeh, Mohammadreza; Ghafarianzirak, Fatemeh – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2018
This two-week quantitative experimental study aimed at making a comparison among the effects of individual and collaborative pre-task planning, both with and without receiving teacher feedback on structural organization and clarity of argumentative essays. The participants were 120 Iranian English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners, assigned…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
