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Rabiah Tul Adawiyah Mohamed Salleh; Bruno Di Biase; Satomi Kawaguchi – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
English is undoubtedly an important language for educational and socio-economic mobility in numerous countries including Malaysia. Regardless of its importance, studies to document English language acquisition among Malaysian children acquiring English in the local context remain scarce. This normative data is imperative for syllabus-designers,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preschool Children
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Sögüt, Sibel; Keçik, Ilknur – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
This study investigates the use of high-frequency cognitive verbs - think and believe - in Turkish L2 learners' interlanguage, both in terms of their verb senses and complementation patterns. In line with this purpose, a Sentence Production Task consisting of context-independent items and a Sentence Completion Task consisting of context-dependent…
Descriptors: Verbs, Word Frequency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Keren-Portnoy, Tamar; Vihman, Marilyn; Fisher, Robin Lindop – Language Learning and Development, 2019
Researchers disagree as to the importance for infant language learning of isolated words, which occur relatively rarely in input speech. Brent and Siskind (2001) showed that the first words infants "produce" are words their mothers used most frequently in isolation. Here we investigate the long-term effects of presentation mode on…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
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Rashtchi, Mojgan; Khoshnevisan, Babak; Shirvani, Maryam – MEXTESOL Journal, 2021
Vocabulary knowledge plays a primary role in the ability to communicate in a second/foreign language. The present study examined how different input or output modalities combined with audiovisual input provided by TED-ED videos could foster vocabulary learning. In doing so, some written tasks and exercises were used to facilitate the process.…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Uchihara, Takumi; Webb, Stuart; Saito, Kazuya; Trofimovich, Pavel – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This study examined how mode of input affects the learning of pronunciation and form-meaning connection of second language (L2) words. Seventy-five Japanese learners of English were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions (reading while listening, reading only, listening only), studied 40 low-frequency words while viewing their corresponding…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Riggs, Reed – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Constructionist research on L2 learning has focused on the degrees to which skewed frequency (Goldberg, Casenhiser & White, 2007; Casenhiser & Goldberg, 2005; Goldberg, Casenhiser, & Sethuraman 2004) in a person's linguistic environment can facilitate "entrenchment," "schematization," and "contingency…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Language Usage, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning
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Augustín-Llach, María Pilar – International Journal of English Studies, 2016
The present paper compares the vocabulary development of a group of CLIL and of traditional EFL learners along three years. The observation that a CLIL approach might provide with larger benefits in the long-run vocabulary is the starting point of this study. We had learners in the two groups complete a letter-writing task. These writings were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Word Frequency
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Matthews, Joshua; O'Toole, John Mitchell; Chen, Shen – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2017
This paper reports on task interaction, task success and word learning among second language (L2) learners of different levels of word recognition from speech (WRS) proficiency who used a CALL application previously shown to be effective in the development of L2 WRS. Participants (N = 65) were categorised into three levels of L2 WRS proficiency…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Language Proficiency, Scores, Comparative Analysis