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Judith Borràs; Àngels Llanes – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
Performing a stay in a country where the L2 is the official language can provide the perfect immersion for L2 development (traditional study abroad). In the case of English learners, internationalization and the role of English as a lingua franca make it unnecessary to perform the stay in an English-speaking country. Hence, an increasing number of…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Language Usage, Undergraduate Students
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Alavinia, Parviz; Rahimi, Hanieh – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
This study investigated the impact of task types on English learners' receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge. A total of 125 (70 female and 55 male) first year ELT students from eight intact classes taking Academic Reading Course in the winter semester of 2017-2018 were assigned to four experimental groups randomly and a control group…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Skills, Receptive Language
Spencer, Trina D.; Moran, Meghan; Thompson, Marilyn S.; Petersen, Douglas B.; Restrepo, M. Adelaida – Grantee Submission, 2020
The purpose of this cluster randomized group study was to investigate the effect of multitiered, dual language instruction on children's oral language skills, including vocabulary, narrative retell, receptive and expressive language, and listening comprehension. Participants were 3-5 year old children (n = 81) who were learning English and whose…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sumiyoshi, Hideki; Svetanant, Chavalin – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2017
Shadowing has increasingly been recognized as an effective practice for developing listening skills in second language learning. However, there is very little study focusing on learners' psychological aspects in implementing shadowing practice. The aim of this study is to explore second language learners' psychological factors, from the motivation…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Psychological Patterns
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Lara-Alecio, Rafael; Tong, Fuhui; Irby, Beverly J.; Guerrero, Cindy Lynn – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
In this year-long randomized control trial (RCT), we evaluated the effectiveness of a year-long, intensive, and structured virtual professional development (VPD) accompanying science-integrated English-as-second-language (ESL) instructional intervention on 187 second grade English learners' English language and literacy development in suburban…
Descriptors: Intervention, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Literacy
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Pérez Cañado, María Luisa; Lancaster, Nina Karen – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2017
This article reports on the outcomes of a longitudinal case study to gauge the impact of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) on two of the least researched language skills: oral comprehension and production. It worked with 24 students in the fourth grade of Compulsory Secondary Education in a public school in Andalusia (southern Spain)…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Course Content
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Pfenninger, Simone E. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
The longitudinal intervention study reported here is the first to investigate the efficiency of computer learning software specifically designed for dyslexic Swiss German learners of Standard German as a second language (L2) and English as a third language (L3). A total of 40 subjects (20 of them dyslexics and 20 of them nondyslexics; 10 students…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Program Effectiveness, Computer Software, Dyslexia