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Shehr Bano Zaidi – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
This research project is set in a Pakistani undergraduate translation studies class. Pakistan is an ex-British colony where English is taught in a linguistic neo-imperial context. Teachers often endeavor to lessen the palpable struggle of students by introducing activities that put less emphasis on grammatical correctness and more on fostering…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Ji-Young Seo – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Although ChatGPT provides excellent features as a writing assistant tool, few empirical studies have been conducted on its integration into writing education investigating students' usage pattern and impact on the writing skills of students. This exploratory research aims to fill this research gap by analyzing prompts initiated by students and…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Writing (Composition)
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Maja Milosavljevic; Barry Lee Reynolds – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Research on young English language learners has been gaining popularity in recent years, but to this day remains underdeveloped. The present study aimed to add to this body of research by exploring the effects of visual arts activities implemented via comprehension and compared to more commonly used flashcard activities implemented via…
Descriptors: Altruism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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K. K. Nair, Vishnu; Clark, Grace T.; Siyambalapitiya, Samantha; Reuterskiöld, Christina – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Although there is a growing body of literature on cognitive and language processing in bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), there is a major gap in the evidence for language intervention. Critically, speech-language therapists are often required to make clinical decisions for language intervention on specific…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Impairments, Intervention, Language Processing
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Rashmi Ranjan Behera; Chirashree Srabani Rath; Amulya Kumar Acharya; Trupti Subhrajyoti; Sujata Acharya; Rajesh Kumar – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Prompted by the challenges faced by teachers in balancing grammar and content in English classes, coupled with the poor English proficiency of rural Odia medium school students, the study aimed to devise an intervention that could balance content and grammar, thereby enhancing the grammar competency and content comprehension of eighth-grade…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rezai, Afsheen – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
This study explored the effects of concurrent group dynamic assessment (G-DA) and cumulative G-DA on Iranian pre-intermediate English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' interlanguage pragmatic comprehension (ILPC). To this end, a total of 97 pre-intermediate learners took the key English test (KET) test and 45 learners whose scores fell between…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Klaudia Gajewska – JALT CALL Journal, 2025
Given the novelty of human--machine communication (HMC) in task-based language learning (TBLL), we conducted a multimethodological pilot study to explore the use of Alexa in out-of-class task-based learning to mediate texts in English as a foreign language. Fourteen Polish intermediate learners participated in the quasi-experiment and programme…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods
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Wiphawee Dongsanniwas; Apisak Sukying – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
Vocabulary acquisition is a fundamental element of mastering the English language, necessitating a comprehensive lexicon that evolves through experiential learning to facilitate accurate comprehension and production of language. The current study examined the impact of Total Physical Response (TPR) tasks on the vocabulary acquisition of Thai…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Vocabulary Development, Elementary School Students, Second Language Instruction
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Ramírez, Naja Ferjan; Kuhl, Patricia K. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2020
Infancy (0-3 years) represents a unique time for language learning. Previous research shows that infants' second language (L2) learning advances rapidly in early education centers, through a research-based method and curriculum delivered by native-speaking language tutors. Here we test the potential of this method for broad application, through an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Infants, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Vandenberghe, Bert; Perez, Maribel Montero; Reynvoet, Bert; Desmet, Piet – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
This study combines explicit (pen-and-paper) and sensitive (time-pressured) measures to gauge the impact of three instructional interventions (contextualized input with meaning-focused activities, contextualized input with word-focused activities, and decontextualized input with word-focused exercises) on the learning of 20 L2 French target verbs.…
Descriptors: French, Verbs, Linguistic Input, Intervention
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Xia, Vera Yunxiao; White, Lydia; Guzzo, Natália Brambatti – Second Language Research, 2022
This article reports on an experiment investigating the effects of featural Relativized Minimality (Friedmann et al., 2009) on the representation and processing of relative clauses in the second language (L2) English of Mandarin speakers. Object relatives (ORCs) are known to cause greater problems in first language (L1) acquisition and in adult…
Descriptors: Intervention, Phrase Structure, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
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Cotelli Kureth, Sara; Summers, Elana – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2023
University students, especially language learners, have increasingly been using machine translation (MT) systems in the last decade and for all kinds of texts, including homework, assignments and exams. This ubiquity does not translate into visibility as few teachers address the subject in class. Several researchers have shown that MT systems,…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mahmoud M. S. Abdallah – Online Submission, 2025
This research study investigates the effectiveness of a pedagogical model (an interventional framework) of contextualised instruction through Reverso Context, a comprehensive language and translation tool, in developing the translation skills of senior EFL student teachers. The study employs a quasi-experimental one-group pre-post design, with a…
Descriptors: Intervention, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Benati, Alessandro – Language Teaching Research, 2022
The present study explores the effects of structured input and traditional instruction on the acquisition of English causative passive forms using online measurements (eye-tracking). Previous empirical research investigating the effects of processing instruction through offline measurements (sentence and discourse) has overall shown positive…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Altinbas, Mehmet Emre – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
Following Richards's (2015) ideas of using movie clips, videos, and games as valuable technological tools for language learning, the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of using novel extracts and computer game cutscenes based on the same story to develop the vocabulary knowledge of English as a foreign language (EFL)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis
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