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Katalin Fenyvesi – Language Teaching Research, 2024
This study explores what young Danish learners found anxiety-provoking or difficult in their English as a foreign language (EFL) classes. Participants (n = 32) were early and later starters (ages 8 years vs. 10 years) at two primary schools where children were not assessed in English. The qualitative inquiry aimed to examine what differences…
Descriptors: Grade 9, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hamdan, Mohammad Hussein; Al-Zahrani, Muteb Ahmad S. – Arab World English Journal, 2020
Spelling words accurately is not an easy process. Instead, it is a complex developmental skill. Due to this fact, several studies have recently investigated learners' spelling ability and how this skill develops in different stages. The main purpose of this study is to examine the developmental nature of Saudi intermediate school students'…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Spelling, Foreign Countries
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Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – Cogent Education, 2022
This study aims to examine how Chinese learners develop in their use and misuse of English modal verbs from Grade 7 to 9. Specifically, it examines form-function connections and explores the factors behind learners' development. The main focus is on the modal verbs "can," "could," "will," "would,"…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Klinck, Patricia – 1987
A study of self-correction, or repair (the righting of the trouble source) among bilingual secondary students differed from most repair studies in three ways. It: (1) examined results in the form of description rather than in quantifiable analyses; (2) defined errors as trouble sources (hearable errors, breaks in communication such as word…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Case Studies, Educational Experience, Error Patterns
Nakamura, Tomoko – 1997
A study in Japan investigated second language skill loss and maintenance in three groups of English-as-a-Second-Language learners: (1) ninth graders studying basic vocabulary and sentence structures (true beginners); (2) students in the lowest level English class at a technical college, but with some English language skills (false beginners); and…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Foreign Countries