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Benson, Susan D. – Language Teaching Research, 2016
Since the 1980s, task-based language teaching (TBLT) has enjoyed considerable interest from researchers of second language acquisition (SLA), resulting in a growing body of empirical evidence to support how and to what extent this approach can promote language learning. Although transferability and generalizability are critical assumptions for…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multivariate Analysis
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Roush, Cora; Song, Liyan – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to report a study that examined the impact of using Clickers technology on classroom instruction from both the students' and the teachers' perspectives. The students in this study came from six high school Spanish classes, and the teachers were from six different subject areas in the high school and two…
Descriptors: Handheld Devices, Audience Response Systems, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Shawer, Saad F. – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
This investigation examines English as foreign language college interdisciplinary and intercultural differences in learning strategy use and their implications for language processing. Positivism underpins this research at the levels of ontology (standardized variables), epistemology (detachment from the subjects) and methodology, using nomothetic…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Student Attitudes, Learning Strategies, Stereotypes
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Sung, Ko-Yin – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2011
This survey study, which involved 134 language learners enrolled in first-year Chinese as a foreign language classrooms in the US universities, intended to address the research question, "Do learners' strategy use differ based on the following learner differences: (1) gender; (2) home language/culture; and (3) number of other foreign languages…
Descriptors: Test Results, Learning Strategies, Second Language Learning, Mandarin Chinese