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Muravev, Yury – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2023
The premise of this research is that analytical and extensive reading in a digital environment might be used to facilitate second language acquisition at the tertiary education level. Despite the general orientation toward communicative methods in modern second language acquisition, reading methods and techniques have seen an unexpected yet very…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Tests
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Sibel Sögüt – GIST Education and Learning Research Journal, 2023
This study examines second language (L2) learners' perspectives regarding the affordances and challenges of using the Data-Driven Learning (DDL) to identify the properties of near-synonymous words. Employing a convergent mixed-method design, this study deciphers the perceptions of 40 undergraduate L2 learners majoring in English language teaching.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phrase Structure
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Lai, Chun; Qi, Xuedan; Lü, Chan; Lyu, Boning – Language Teaching Research, 2020
This study compared the effectiveness of deductive instruction and guided inductive instruction for developing semantic radical knowledge of Chinese characters. The evaluation was conducted through a quasi-experimental 3-week intervention involving 46 intermediate learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL). The results indicated that guided…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Chinese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mirzaee, Sepideh; Maftoon, Parviz – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2016
The present study investigates the impact of higher order thinking enhancing techniques as two post-reading strategies on the EFL students' reasoning power as determined by their private speech production. Also, the relationship between the learners' private speech production and their reasoning power is also investigated. In so doing, the study…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Thinking Skills, English (Second Language), Logical Thinking
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Nelson, Mark Evan; Johnson, Neil H. – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2014
In this article, we describe a programme of qualitative research and interpretive analysis around an approach to foreign language pedagogy that aimed to develop learners' symbolic competence through experience with and examination of the signs in acts of communication. Learners were presented with the problem of visually representing the abstract…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Creative Thinking, Semiotics
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Pae, Tae-Il – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2004
This paper examines the effect of gender on English reading comprehension for Korean EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners. The gender effect was measured using a DIF (Differential Item Functioning) methodology. Specifically, gender DIF was investigated for a random sample of 14,000 Korean examinees (7,000 males and 7,000 females) who took…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Test Format, Content Analysis, Gender Differences
Kirby, John – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1996
A discussion of the translation process focuses on inferencing strategy, using attributes and contexts that are familiar in recognizing or making sense of what is unfamiliar in a text. Examples drawn from Belgian translation student work are used to illustrate this principle in operation, at several levels of difficulty. The examples come from…
Descriptors: Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries