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Conwell, Erin; Auen, Amanda – Child Development, 2021
Acquisition of an argument structure may be affected by the diversity of lexical types that appear in that structure (Conwell et al., 2011; Yang, 2016). Seventy-two 5- and 6-year-old English-speaking children completed a learning study where they were exposed to a novel argument structure and then tested on their ability to comprehend it. The…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Teaching Methods, Language Processing
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Heesun Chang; Amin Raeisi-Vanani – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
The purpose of this study is to analyze the grammatical complexity features of international teaching assistants' (ITAs) mock-teaching presentations and to compare the distributions of these features to those found in the Oral English Proficiency Test (a local ITA assessment), university classroom teaching, conversation, and academic writing. The…
Descriptors: Grammar, Teaching Assistants, Oral Language, Language Proficiency
Ruoyu Huang – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Growing up in the digital era, young children are exposed to numerous educational applications and programs, some with well-designed curricula and others focused more on entertainment or game-like qualities. With the increasing popularity of mobile language-learning applications among young children, this dissertation raises a crucial question: do…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Animation
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Sara Fernández Cuenca – Dimensions, 2024
To this day, there are only a few studies that have used a controlled instructional intervention on specific linguistic structures to investigate if language instruction is beneficial for heritage learners (HLs), in the same way it is for second (L2) language learners, and more research in this area is rapidly needed (Bowles, 2018). The results…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Form Classes (Languages)
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Rong Liu – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2022
The study examines the effects of using computer delivered Processing Instruction (PI) to teach English reflexives. Thirty intermediate ESL learners participated in the pretest-treatment-posttest study. Participants received the input-based PI activities. Gains were assessed by traditional offline tasks such as sentence interpretation and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Form Classes (Languages)
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Fakher Ajabshir, Zahra – Language Teaching Research, 2022
This study investigates the effects of input-based and output-based instructions on the acquisition of second language (L2) request modifiers. Four intact classes were randomly assigned to textual enhancement (TE), input flooding (IF), output-based instruction (OI), and control (CO) groups. The TE group watched some captioned videos on requests…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Contemori, Carla; Mossman, Sabrina; Ramos, Alba K. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
Learners of a nonnull subject language (e.g., English) whose first language (L1) is a null subject language (e.g., Spanish) can show some optionality in the interpretation of overt subject pronouns in the second language (L2). By exposing L2 learners to nativelike interpretations of pronouns in discourse, we aim at understanding how exposure can…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Spanish
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Wong, Man Ho Ivy – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2023
Informed by two usage-based approaches, this study investigated to what extent different types of computer-based training facilitated English preposition learning among intermediate Chinese learners of English. The design of the pedagogical materials was informed by the cognitive linguistics (CL) framework while the training format was motivated…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Concept Formation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Comparative Analysis
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Ko, HyunSook – English Teaching, 2022
The study investigates which grammar features need high priority of pedagogical intervention to develop implicit knowledge, unlike grammatical features in need of explanation of explicit rules. Two types of data were collected from 29 Korean college students: a sentence completion test in English and a meta-linguistic knowledge test (requiring…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Writing Instruction
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Olszewski, Arnold; Hood, Rachel Lynell – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2023
Dialogic reading during shared book reading between adults and children is an effective way to promote vocabulary acquisition. However, there is limited research on what strategies parents are spontaneously using during book reading sessions, which are important to understand for optimizing parent training in dialogic reading. The current study…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Story Reading, Parent Child Relationship
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Kazunari Shimada – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study investigated the effects of explicit and implicit discourse marker (DM) instruction on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' speech. Two different teaching methods were used over seven weeks of online English classes at a university in Japan. Participants were split into two groups, and in the first week, a pre-test comprising…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ebrahimi, Alireza Barouni – International Journal of English Studies, 2021
Derivational knowledge is associated with writing and speaking skills. These skills are essential for EFL students who express themselves in oral presentations or written assignments. Therefore, diagnostic measurement of productive derivational knowledge is of vital importance, especially in regard to the most frequent 1,000 word families that…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Sonbul, Suhad; El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam; Al-Otaibi, Hind – Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 2022
Experimental research on the interface between second language vocabulary knowledge, including collocations, and translation competence is scarce. The present study investigates the role played by three determinants of collocation knowledge (knowledge level -- recall versus recognition, congruency, and constituent word types) in the accuracy of…
Descriptors: Translation, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Language Processing
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Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia; Karpicke, Jeffrey D.; Christ, Sharon; Weber, Christine; Kueser, Justin B.; Haebig, Eileen – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: There are strong retention benefits when learners frequently test themselves during the learning period. This practice of repeated retrieval has recently been applied successfully to children's word learning. In this study, we apply a repeated retrieval procedure to the learning of novel adjectives by preschool-age children with…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Language Impairments, Recall (Psychology), Language Tests
Alqahtani, Fatmah – Online Submission, 2019
The subject slot is a main part of any English sentence (Martha & Robert, 2012). The recognition of the subject slot is therefore a crucial step in understanding and comprehending a sentence. This paper studies the effect of the internal structure of the subject slot on its recognition by students learning English as a foreign language (EFL).…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Sentence Structure
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