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Tunaz, Mehmet; Muyan, Emrah; Muratoglu, Nursel – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the categories of preposition errors made by EFL learners of elementary and intermediate proficiency levels by comparing the rate of preposition errors (addition, omission, substitution) to their total preposition uses in their essays, and by comparing the overall preposition usage of learners of both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Error Patterns
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Khaksefidi, Saman – International Education Studies, 2017
This study investigates the psychological effect of a wrong question with wrong items on answering to the next question in a test of structure. Forty students selected through stratified random sampling are given 15 questions of a standardized test namely a TOEFL structure test in which questions number 7 and number 11 are wrong and their answers…
Descriptors: Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Statistical Analysis
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Alhaysony, Maha – English Language Teaching, 2016
This study sought to investigate the attitudes of Saudi EFL students towards corrective feedback (henceforth CF) on classroom oral errors. The subjects were 3200 (1223 male and 1977 female) students enrolled in an intensive English language programme in the preparatory year at the University of Ha'il. A questionnaire was the main instrument. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Student Attitudes
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Dirix, Nicolas; Cop, Uschi; Drieghe, Denis; Duyck, Wouter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
The present study assessed intra- and cross-lingual neighborhood effects, using both a generalized lexical decision task and an analysis of a large-scale bilingual eye-tracking corpus (Cop, Dirix, Drieghe, & Duyck, 2016). Using new neighborhood density and frequency measures, the general lexical decision task yielded an inhibitory…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Second Language Learning, Word Frequency, Native Language
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Castilla-Earls, Anny; Pérez-Leroux, Ana Teresa; Restrepo, Maria Adelaida; Gaile, Daniel; Chen, Ziqiang – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2018
This study investigates the use of the Spanish subjunctive in bilingual children with and without specific language impairments (SLI). Using an elicitation task, we examine: (i) the potential of the subjunctive as a grammatical marker of SLI in Spanish-English bilingual children, (ii) the extent to which degree of bilingualism affects performance,…
Descriptors: Spanish, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Carranza, Mario – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper addresses the process of transcribing and annotating spontaneous non-native speech with the aim of compiling a training corpus for the development of Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) applications, enhanced with Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology. To better adapt ASR technology to CAPT tools, the recognition…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Phonemes, Computational Linguistics
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Birjandi, Parviz; Siyyari, Masood – Irish Educational Studies, 2016
This paper presents the results of an investigation into the role of two personality traits (i.e. Agreeableness and Conscientiousness from the Big Five personality traits) in predicting rating error in the self-assessment and peer-assessment of composition writing. The average self/peer-rating errors of 136 Iranian English major undergraduates…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Peer Evaluation, Teaching Methods, Personality Traits
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Chang, Li-Chun – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2015
The purpose of this study was to explore the reading behavior of young proficient Chinese readers at preschool age. Especially, the roles of phonetic skill and Chinese Character recognition in reading comprehension were explored. 10 kindergartens were recruited to participate in the study. Subjects were 72-98 kindergarten children. Instruments…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Comprehension, Preschool Children, Preschool Evaluation
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Zufferey, Sandrine; Mak, Willem; Degand, Liesbeth; Sanders, Ted – Second Language Research, 2015
Discourse connectives are important indicators of textual coherence, and mastering them is an essential part of acquiring a language. In this article, we compare advanced learners' sensitivity to the meaning conveyed by connectives in an off-line grammaticality judgment task and an on-line reading experiment using eye-tracking. We also assess the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Native Language, Comparative Analysis, French
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Sumner, Emma; Connelly, Vincent; Barnett, Anna L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016
Spelling is a prerequisite to expressing vocabulary in writing. Research has shown that children with dyslexia are hesitant spellers when composing. This study aimed to determine whether the hesitant spelling of children with dyslexia, evidenced by frequent pausing, affects vocabulary choices when writing. A total of 31 children with dyslexia,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spelling, Spelling Instruction, Vocabulary Development
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Nezami, Ali; Najafi, Mousa Sadraie – English Language Teaching, 2012
This paper aimed at obtaining a clear understanding of Iranian EFL learners' L2 writing error types. To develop such an understanding, a research question was formulated to see whether there is any significant difference between the participants' language proficiency level and their error types in writing. To this end, a sample version of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Error Patterns, Writing (Composition)
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Unlu, Elena Antonova; Hatipoglu, Ciler – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2012
The current research investigated the acquisition of the copula "be" in Present Simple Tense (PST) in English by native speakers of Russian. The aim of the study was to determine whether or not Russian students with different levels of English proficiency would encounter any problems while using the copula "be" in PST in English. The study also…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Russian, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)
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Khonamri, Fatemeh; Mahmoudi Kojidi, Elahe – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2011
We report an investigation on the relationship between metacognitive awareness of reading strategies and comprehension monitoring of language learners in English as a foreign language context. Participants were thirty first year university students majoring in electronics. They completed a questionnaire aimed at discerning the strategies that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Reading Ability
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Lindgren, Signe-Anita; Laine, Matti – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2011
We investigated reading and writing in two domestic languages (Swedish and Finnish) and one foreign language (English) among multilingual university students with (n = 20) versus without dyslexia (n = 20). Our analyses encompassed overall speed and accuracy measures and an in-depth analysis of grapheme-phoneme-grapheme errors and inflectional…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Phonemes, Graphemes, Dyslexia
Liao, Ern-Huei – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The problem. The purpose of this study is to investigate positive and negative cross-linguistic transfer on EFL learners' phraseological competence in collocations and its relationship to learners' linguistic proficiency. Method. A quantitative study was conducted. Two instruments, multiple choice test and grammaticality judgment test, were…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language Proficiency
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