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Assaly, Ibtihal R.; Smadi, Oqlah M. – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study aimed at evaluating the cognitive levels of the questions following the reading texts of Master Class textbook. A checklist based on Bloom's Taxonomy was the instrument used to categorize the cognitive levels of these questions. The researchers used proper statistics to rank the cognitive levels of the comprehension questions. The…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Textbook Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Questioning Techniques
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Abu-Melhim Abdel-Rahman – English Language Teaching, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine if first language interference does play a significant role in the use of articles in English by native speakers of Arabic as compared to other ESL learners. An error analysis was conducted on the use of English articles in essays taken from two groups of advanced ESL learners. The essays were composed by…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Taxonomy, Role
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Hellalet, Nadia – English Language Teaching, 2013
This study looks into the use of reiteration relations in EFL student writing. The aim is to determine the extent to which Moroccan college students rely on lexical cohesion to produce native-sounding texts. Twenty essays written by college students from two different levels were analyzed quantitatively using Halliday and Hasan's (1976) and Hoey's…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
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Razak, Norizan Abdul; Saeed, Murad Abdu – English Language Teaching, 2015
This qualitative study investigated peer writing revision among English as foreign language (EFL) Arab students in a Facebook group. Specifically, it aimed to identify the text revisions made by the learners and to determine their contributions to the learners' written texts and sense of online community outside the college classroom context.…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Bu, Jiemin – English Language Teaching, 2012
Studies in interlanguage pragmatics have shown that L2 learners' proficiency has an influence on the occurrences of L1 pragmatic transfer. However, questions remain whether the relationship between L1 pragmatic transfer and L2 proficiency is positive or negative. This paper is designed to study L1 pragmatic transfer in requests made by Chinese…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Pragmatics
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Park, Gi-Pyo – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study examined the validity of the SILL by performing a confirmatory factor analysis among 914 university students learning English in Korea. The results showed that all the fit indices including chi-square, RMSEA, CFI, and NFI used to test Oxford's two construct and six construct taxonomy of the SILL provided unacceptable fit to the data.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Measures (Individuals), Learning Strategies
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Niroomand, Masoumeh – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was designed to examine the ways power relations influence politeness strategies in disagreement. The study was an attempt to find out whether different power status of people influences the the choice of appropriate politeness strategies and speech act of disagreement by Iranian EFL learners, in a university setting. A Discourse…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Power Structure, Language Proficiency