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Sangmin-Michelle Lee; Nayeon Kang – Language Learning & Technology, 2024
With recent improvements in machine translation (MT) accuracy, MT has gained unprecedented popularity in second language (L2) learning. Despite the significant number of studies on MT use, the effects of using MT on students' retention of learning or secondary school students' use of MT in L2 writing has rarely been researched. The current study…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition), Middle School Students, Foreign Countries
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Friesen, Deanna C.; Ward, Olivia; Bohnet, Jessica; Cormier, Pierre; Jared, Debra – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
The current study investigated whether shared phonology across languages activates cross-language meaning when reading in context. Eighty-five bilinguals read English sentences while their eye movements were tracked. Critical sentences contained English members of English-French interlingual homophone pairs (e.g., "mow"; French homophone…
Descriptors: Phonology, Language Processing, Bilingualism, Reading Processes
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Yilmaz, Muamber – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The aim of this study was to determine the situation of pre-service primary school teachers' use of Turkish on the internet. The research was conducted on 100 students studying at the department of Primary School Education of Mustafa Kemal University. The research was descriptive. Data of the study was obtained from the students' conversations in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Turkish, Internet, Language Usage
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Manik, Sabar; Purba, Normina; Rostina – International Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
This study aimed at investigating linguistic errors committed by students majoring in Non-English Department in writing English composition. A total of 20 first year students at Economic College IBBI Medan who have taken an English subject course were involved in this study. Their compositions were analyzed for the purpose of scrutinizing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Writing Skills
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Chaleila, Wisam; Khalaila, Basem – English Language Teaching, 2020
While recent literature has focused extensively on the widely embraced approach of explicit instruction, there is a considerable paucity of research concerning plausible practical frameworks that can demonstrate how such particular approach is implementable in EFL classes. To address the specific writing deficiencies of EFL students, the current…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Language
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Bailey, Daniel; Lee, Andrea Rakushin – TESOL International Journal, 2020
Different genres of writing entail various levels of syntactic and lexical complexity, and how this complexity influences the results of Automatic Writing Evaluation (AWE) programs like Grammarly in second language (L2) writing is unknown. This study explored the use of Grammarly in the L2 writing context by comparing error frequency, error types…
Descriptors: Grammar, Computer Assisted Instruction, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Godin, Marie-Pier; Gagné, Andréanne; Chapleau, Nathalie – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2018
The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine spelling acquisition in French children with developmental language disorder (DLD) over a school year. Through a fine-grained spelling error analysis, we investigated whether spelling profiles could be established in the DLD population. This study comprised three groups: a typically developing (TD)…
Descriptors: Spelling, French, Language Acquisition, Error Patterns
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Namouz, Rana; Misher-Tal, Hagit; Sela, Orly – Research-publishing.net, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of integrating blogging into the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) curriculum on students' performance in expressive writing. Previous studies have shown that integrating blogging into EFL learning raises students' motivation and develops their linguistic and social skills as a result of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Arabs, Writing Improvement
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Moon, Brian – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2014
The capacity of secondary school teachers to support general literacy and to teach discipline-specific literacy skills depends upon their personal literacy competence. Diagnostic testing of 203 secondary teaching undergraduates at one Australian university revealed deficiencies in personal literacy competence that could affect their future…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Reading Skills, Writing Skills
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Furlonger, Brett; Holmes, Virginia M.; Rickards, Field W. – Reading Psychology, 2014
This study investigated differences in the phonological knowledge and reading skill of deaf adults using three experimental conditions that tested sensitivity to syllables, rhyme, and phonemes. Analysis of response latencies and accuracy in the three awareness tasks demonstrated that skilled deaf readers had superior phonological awareness skill…
Descriptors: Phonological Awareness, Reading Skills, Deafness, Adults
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Sampson, Andrew – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
This paper reports on a small-scale study into the effects of uncoded correction (writing the correct forms above each error) and coded annotations (writing symbols that encourage learners to self-correct) on Colombian university-level EFL learners' written work. The study finds that while both coded annotations and uncoded correction appear to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Doolan, Stephen M. – Written Communication, 2014
Developmental composition courses serve a sizable and growing number of Generation 1.5 students, or long-term U.S. resident language learners, and it is believed that language challenges may be part of Generation 1.5 writers' difficulty in controlling the academic register. The current study investigates possible similarities and differences…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Student Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Monod, P.; Queyrane, M. – French Review, 1973
Statistics on errors in written French by students in first- and second-year language courses. (DD)
Descriptors: Adjectives, Error Patterns, French, Grammar
Faingold, Eduardo D. – 1997
An exercise in the evaluation of errors in Spanish (second language) composition is reported. The exercise, based on J. M. Hendrickson's "discovery" approach to learning, concerned correction of three error types: lexicon; grammar; and spelling. Subjects were 13 native English-speaking university students in a Spanish language program. In the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Film Criticism, Grammar
Hammerly, Hector – 1975
Types of hierarchies of pronunciation difficulty are discussed, and a hierarchy based on contrastive analysis plus informal observation is proposed. This hierarchy is less one of initial difficulty than of error persistence. One feature of this hierarchy is that, because of lesser learner awareness and very limited functional load, errors…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Interference (Language)
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