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Cenoz, Jasone; Leonet, Oihana; Gorter, Durk – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This article is on pedagogical translanguaging, understood as planned instructional strategies used with a pedagogical purpose in a multilingual educational context. The paper reports a study on cognate identification and cognate awareness carried out in a multilingual primary school. The study aims at analyzing whether the identification of…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Teaching Methods, Multilingualism, Elementary School Students
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Naydan, Michael M.; Ivanytska, Mariia; Perminova, Alla – Advanced Education, 2019
The article discusses the development of the linguistic identity of a novice literary translator in the course of academic training. The authors claim that teaching literary translation presupposes creating an academic environment conducive to untapping the creative potential of translation students. The paper describes an experiment in which 30…
Descriptors: Literature, Translation, Self Concept, Language Processing
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Azaz, Mahmoud – Foreign Language Annals, 2017
This study examined to what extent English-speaking learners of Arabic demonstrated varied metalinguistic knowledge of a salient feature (head-direction) vs. an unsalient feature (definiteness) in the Arabic construct state. In addition, it examined whether this knowledge was utilized in form-focused task performance. In the target construction,…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Morphemes
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Ashton, Karen – Language Learning Journal, 2019
This paper explores the approaches and strategies used by secondary school learners of different languages in England completing Asset Languages reading tasks at levels A1 and A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Assessments across languages at the same level of proficiency were designed to a common specification and at…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Secondary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Balabakgil, Burcin; Mede, Enisa – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The purpose of this research study is to find out and compare the use of L1 as a teaching strategy by native and nonnative instructors in elementary level EFL classrooms at a preparatory program of a foundation (non-profit, private) university in Istanbul, Turkey. Specifically, the study aims to investigate the perceptions of native and non-native…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Wang, Yen-Hui – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
This study explores the differences between more successful and less successful EFL readers in their comprehension performance and abilities to use reading strategies in interaction with English texts through thinking aloud while reading in pairs. Ten freshman high school students participated in pairs in four think-aloud reading tasks to think…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Protocol Analysis, Scores, Teaching Methods
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Cerezo, Luis; Caras, Allison; Leow, Ronald P. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
Meta-analytic research suggests an edge of explicit over implicit instruction for the development of complex L2 grammatical structures, but the jury is still out as to which type of explicit instruction--"deductive" or "inductive," where rules are respectively provided or elicited--proves more effective. Avoiding this…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Li, Hongli; Suen, Hoi K. – Language Testing, 2013
Differential skill functioning (DSF) exists when examinees from different groups have different probabilities of successful performance in a certain subskill underlying the measured construct, given that they have the same ability on the overall construct. Using a DSF approach, this study examined the differences between two native language…
Descriptors: Native Language, Differences, Reading Skills, Reading Tests
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Shin, Changok; Riazantseva, Anastasia – Language and Intercultural Communication, 2015
Grounded in constructivist theories of reading and informed by the contemporary theories of identity, this study explored how three Korean adult speakers of English as a foreign language (EFL) constructed meaning of the novel "The Catcher in the Rye", and how their identities mediated this process. Sources of data included think aloud…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Korean, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Zheng, Yongyan – Language Awareness, 2014
Second language (L2) learners' awareness of first language-second language (L1-L2) semantic differences plays a critical role in L2 vocabulary learning. This study investigates the long-term development of eight university-level Chinese English as a foreign language learners' cross-linguistic semantic awareness over the course of 10 months. A…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Transfer of Training
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Zare-ee, Abbas; Fatemeh Mahdavi – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
In the study reported here, we explored writing processes employed by 70 undergraduate learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) through questionnaires and think-aloud protocols. Then we looked for possible differences in the writing processes employed by high- and low-aptitude learners. We observed that learners with higher aptitude scores…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Martoccio, Alyssa Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation tests a grammatical structure, differential object marking (DOM), which is particularly difficult for L2 learners to acquire. DOM is a phenomenon in which some direct objects are morphologically marked to distinguish them from subjects (Comrie, 1979). In Spanish, animate and specific direct objects are marked with the preposition…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Difficulty Level, Metalinguistics
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Ma, Jingjing – International Journal of English Studies, 2010
Approaching peer review from a process and contextualized perspective, this exploratory case study investigates two Chinese EFL learners' decision-making patterns while evaluating peers' texts in an online peer review and factors influencing these patterns. Detailed qualitative case study data were collected through think-aloud protocols,…
Descriptors: Expository Writing, Observation, Protocol Analysis, Prior Learning