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Tsunemoto, Aki; Trofimovich, Pavel; Kennedy, Sara – Language Teaching Research, 2023
Teacher cognition has attracted increased attention among second language (L2) researchers and practitioners, likely because of its potential consequences for classroom practices, such as teaching and assessment. Prior research has revealed links between teacher beliefs about pronunciation teaching and teachers' own experience (e.g. amount of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
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Siengsanoh, Boonyakorn – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2021
To achieve a high level of language fluency, learners need to possess sufficient collocational competence. However, collocation is considered a problematic area for many EFL learners, partly because of its arbitrariness. To gain more insight into the problems involving learners' productive collocational skills, the current study examines lexical…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hinkel, Eli – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2017
Currently, a relatively large number of spoken and written conventionalized expressions have been collected, catalogued, and systematized. In language pedagogy, a clear implication is that teaching grammar and vocabulary is likely to be more complicated than working with syntactic rules and single-word items. Old and new insights associated with…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Phrase Structure, Figurative Language, Syntax
Umansky, Ilana M.; Valentino, Rachel A.; Reardon, Sean F. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015
One in five school-age children in the U.S. speaks a language other than English at home (Zeigler & Camarota, 2014). Roughly half of these emerging bilingual students (Garcia, 2009) are classified as English learners (ELs) when they enter school, meaning they do not meet state or district criteria for English proficiency (NCES, 2015). As the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Bilingual Students, English Language Learners
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Nicolaidis, Katerina; Mattheoudakis, Marina – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2012
This paper proposes a new method for the combined teaching of pronunciation and vocabulary to learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). While there is commonly strong emphasis on the teaching of vocabulary, pronunciation teaching is frequently neglected in the EFL classroom. The proposed method aims to address such imbalance which may…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Communicative Competence (Languages), Pronunciation Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Beaudrie, Sara M. – Linguistics and Education: An International Research Journal, 2012
This article provides a comprehensive quantitative analysis of misspellings in the writing of fluent Spanish heritage language (SHL) learners enrolled in a university-level Spanish course. The corpus consisted of a total of 21,322 words and 2492 misspellings, which were divided into four main categories and several subcategories. This paper…
Descriptors: Spelling, Phonemics, Interference (Language), Spanish