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Thomas Rowley – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Language ideologies can powerfully shape language learner perceptions and progress. This qualitative study investigated and reports findings based on analysis of interviews with 14 participants who self-identify as advanced users of Spanish. While dominant language ideologies in the U.S. often undermine learners reaching high levels of language…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
Gamboa, Raúl A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This dissertation deals with the perception of the aspirated coda /s/ by Spanish L2 learners. Second language research, with some exceptions, focuses on whether L1English-L2 Spanish learners can perceive the aspirated variant, showing that only advanced learners with time spent in s-weakening regions succeed at the task. L2 studies about…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Language Attitudes, Intonation
Shazia Hasnain; Santoshi Halder – Journal of Education, 2024
Complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) as measures of language proficiency have been used extensively in assessing second language production in English language studies related to task-based language teaching. The present review adds the following critical elements to the existing body of literature: (i) Provides synthesis and critical analysis…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Christina Torres; Elif Saribas – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2024
Objectives: The purpose of the study was to investigate how tutors approached second language (L2) errors when working with advanced graduate students in structured one-on-one feedback sessions. Method: The longitudinal, qualitative case study used data from immediate, retrospective tutor reflections and in-session interactions to follow two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Feedback (Response), Advanced Students
Taweesak Emsawas; Tsukasa Kimura; Shintaro Ogura; Hironori Morita; Ergashov Abdullajon; Bernard Grundlehner; Mototsugu Ogura; Masayuki Numao – Discover Education, 2025
Second-language (L2) knowledge of English is an essential communication tool in the contemporary era of globalization in many research and business fields. Among the important tasks in English education is the measurement of student proficiency. While various tests purport to measure proficiency in learning English, repeated preparation and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency, Cognitive Processes
Abu Guba, Mohammed Nour – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This paper examines the understudied phenomenon of consonant gemination in the pronunciation of English among Levantine Arabic learners of English (LA learners). The very few studies that touched on gemination among LA learners attributed gemination to spelling in the target language (English). This study challenges this analysis and demonstrates…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Orthographic Symbols, Second Language Learning, Phonology
Jonathan Edward Malone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The tantalizing prospects of learning benefits from multimodal conditions on second language (L2) learning in general, and L2 vocabulary development in particular, have important implications. Indeed, opening a language learning app on any device provides the immediate experience of simultaneous input modalities, and a wide range of input types.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
Sanna Olkkonen; Patrick Snellings; Outi Veivo; Pekka Lintunen – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The fluency of second language (L2) speech can be influenced by L2 proficiency, but also by differences in the efficiency of cognitive operations and personal speaking styles. The nature of cognitive fluency is still, however, little understood. Therefore, we studied the cognitive fluency of Finnish advanced students of English (N = 64) to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Processing, Speech Communication, Language Fluency
Maxim, Hiram H. – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Competent L2 writing has been described in research in terms of an increasing incidence, variety, and length of clauses; a countervailing compactness and tightness with reduced number of clauses even as clause length expands; and various interrelationships between syntactic realizations of texts and the genres they represent. These partly…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Longitudinal Studies
Helen H. Shen; Dexin Dai – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study investigated college Chinese a second language learners' word segmentation error patterns in reading instructional-level Chinese sentences, the relationship between word segmentation errors and reading comprehension, and learners' perspectives on the role of word segmentation in reading comprehension. The results showed that the…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Chinese, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Marie Mangold – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
One of the critiques of proficiency as defined by scales, such as that of ACTFL, is its lack of grounding in linguistic realities. Measures of complexity, accuracy, and fluency provide a route in which proficiency can be quantitatively measured by identifying linguistic correlates (see Brown et al., 2017; Long et al., 2012). This project aimed to…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Miguel Fernández Álvarez; Silvia García Hernández – Language Teaching Research, 2024
After the publication of the "CEFR Companion Volume" in 2018, a revision of the curriculum in force for the English subject in the Bilingual Sections in the Community of Madrid has been implemented. One of the main changes is the inclusion of the concept of linguistic mediation in the subject 'Advanced English' in the last stage of…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Secondary School Students, Language Proficiency, Guidelines
Prioritizing Pronunciation Features for Intelligibility: A Perception Study of the French /E/ Vowels
Adam F. McBride; Céline Rose – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2025
Despite the fact that pronunciation is a vital aspect of language learning, previous research has shown that its instruction is limited in the classroom in terms of time and attention, due in part to the time constraints inherent in any curriculum. It then becomes essential for instructors to be strategic about the pronunciation features they…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Vowels, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Reconceptualizing the Role of Oral Language Predictors in Korean EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension
Jeeyoung Park; Yusun Kang – English Teaching, 2025
Oral language comprehension (OLC) and vocabulary depth are widely recognized as key predictors of reading comprehension. However, research has either provided a limited representation of OLC or failed to acknowledge the distinctive predictive nature of vocabulary depth. This study investigates the combined contributions of OLC, conceptualized as a…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Bilki, Zeynep; Plakans, Lia – TESOL Journal, 2022
Academic reading in English requires processing of challenging advanced texts for comprehension. Highly proficient second language (L2) readers, such as graduate students, are expected to interpret complex texts fluently and efficiently for academic success, yet the field has little evidence on how these readers process texts. Through two…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Advanced Students, Reading Comprehension