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Yu Tamura – Second Language Research, 2025
This study examined number marking comprehension among Japanese learners of second language (L2) English, whose first language (L1) does not have an obligatory number marking system. The study conducted an online sentence comprehension experiment with 96 L1-Japanese learners and 32 native speakers of English, wherein participants engaged in a…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Processing
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Paudel, Pitambar – Online Submission, 2022
With the change in socio-political and educational contexts in global academia, the trend of writing academic papers has arisen among Nepali students and educators in higher education. However, many of them are still unfamiliar with the basic standard to be incorporated in an academic paper. In this context, this study examined the post-graduate…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Syntax, Error Patterns, Foreign Countries
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Finneran, Rosette Bambino – Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics, 2015
Why should second and foreign language teachers tune into instructed second language acquisition (ISLA)? There are many reasons, several of which have already been addressed in this forum. This paper examines one important benefit of keeping abreast of the field, namely, the opportunity for classroom instructors to extract pedagogical insights…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Lockwood, Hunter Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation is a descriptive grammar of Potawatomi, a critically endangered Algonquian language now only spoken as a first language by a handful of elders in northern Wisconsin. Throughout, the goal is to present an authoritative linguistic description of Potawatomi by drawing on direct elicitation, a corpus of new texts gathered in close…
Descriptors: Grammar, American Indian Languages, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Nasrullah; Rosalina, Elsa; Elyani, Eka Puteri – English Language Teaching Educational Journal, 2020
Learning a foreign language for those who have their first and second language often puts learners in imperfection mastery such as irrelevant lexical choice, and source cultural bounds language utterances. Knowing the concepts merely cannot guarantee the process of avoiding mistakes or errors that learners have. There has been an amount of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2021
Introduction: Many ESL college students have reading comprehension problems in English, such as difficulty understanding ideas explicitly or implicitly stated in a text, making inferences, and inferring meanings of difficult words from context. Aims: The article proposes the integration of inspirational quotes in the teaching of English to EFL…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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van Rijt, Jimmy; Coppen, Peter-Arno – Language Awareness, 2017
L1 grammar education is internationally criticised because of its pedagogy and its curriculum content. There is a gap between linguistic theory and school grammar in which the latter rarely makes use of possibly relevant insights from the former. At the same time, linguistics itself has never seriously undertaken attempts to identify the…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Native Language, Syntax, Semantics
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Sembiante, Sabrina F.; Cavallaro, Christina J.; Troyan, Francis John – Language and Education, 2021
Few studies in language teacher education programs provide insight on how knowledge of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) is developed by teacher candidates to support their metalinguistic awareness and preparation to teach language. Building upon the contributions of Johnson and Byrnes, we combined Halliday's language-based theory of learning…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Linguistic Theory, Sociocultural Patterns, Preservice Teachers
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Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Language Teaching, 2017
In this "First Person Singular" essay, the author describes her education, teaching experience, and interest in understanding the learning of language. Anyone reading this essay will not be surprised to learn that the author's questions about language learning and optimal teaching methods were only met with further questions, and no…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Education
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Ponomareva, Lyubov Dmitrievna; Churilina, Lyubov Nikolaevna; Buzhinskaya, Darya Sergeyevna; Derevskova, Elena Nikolayevna; Dorfman, Oksana Vyacheslavovna; Sokolova, Elena Petrovna – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Emphasis on universal learning activities of each student rather than acquisition of ready knowledge, as well as on how an individual masters a language necessitate the development and application of innovative technologies promoting functional-semantic and textual approaches. In the modern context, Russian language teachers, along with knowledge…
Descriptors: Russian, Computational Linguistics, Learning Activities, Language Teachers
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Nakatsukasa, Kimi; Loewen, Shawn – Language Teaching Research, 2015
This study investigates a teacher's L1 use during focus-on-form episodes (FFEs). FFEs assist L2 learning by bringing learners' attention to language. We studied the language used in FFEs in a Spanish as a foreign language (SFL) classroom to better understand the pedagogical purposes of L1 use in the classroom. We video-recorded 12 hours…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Pronunciation
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Forman, Ross – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2014
The global textbook has an enormous influence upon what is taught in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. As Akbari has noted, our era is not simply "postmethod", but one of "textbook-defined practice". What happens, then, when a global EFL textbook is selected for use with Year 1 students at a Thai university? How…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
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Collins, Laura; White, Joanna – TESL Canada Journal, 2014
This article reports on a study examining the language practice opportunities that occurred during a range of paired and small group interactive tasks in an intensive English as a Second Language (ESL) class of francophone Grade 6 students. The analysis focussed on the opportunities the tasks provided for the use of two complex and challenging…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Grade 6
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Schaeffer-Lacroix, Eva – Language Awareness, 2016
Johns reports in his text "Kibbitzing one-to-ones" (1997) that corpus-informed metatalk with a foreign language expert helps apprentice writers to make progress in independent text revision. Expecting this progress to be based on the development of expert-like ways to observe language features, I integrated Johns' so-called kibbitzing…
Descriptors: German, Form Classes (Languages), Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis
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Tyler, Andrea; Mueller, Charles M.; Ho, Vu – AILA Review, 2010
This paper reports the results of a quasi-experimental effects-of-instruction study examining the efficacy of applying a Cognitive Linguistic (CL) approach to L2 learning of the semantics of English modals. In spite of their frequency in typical input, modal verbs present L2 learners with difficulties, party due to their inherent…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Speech Acts, Textbooks, Semantics
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