NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 8 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sabrina Link – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2025
German university degrees, at least in some countries, offer students only German literature courses in addition to language courses. Linguistics is often not a core component of German degree programmes. As a result, students who are not familiar with basic linguistic terminology do not know how languages work, including their mother tongue, or…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, German, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Achugar, Mariana; Tardio, Therese – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2023
In this paper, we explore how advanced college students use the past history and experiences of others to understand the present while learning a foreign language through a content-integrated curriculum. To assess student learning we operationalize Norris (2006. "The Why (and How) of Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in College Foreign…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Advanced Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Uba, Sani Yantandu; Irudayasamy, Julius – MEXTESOL Journal, 2023
This study emerged as a result of insufficient knowledge and descriptions of the behavioural profiles of the near-synonym English verbs, "increase" and "rise," by non-corpus-based traditional reference sources used by students. We explored the behavioural characteristics of this group of near-synonym verbs using the British…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, English, Language Variation
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Llorente Bravo, Marta; Sanchez-Gutierrez, Claudia Helena; Guerra, Kathleen; Aguinaga Echeverría, Silvia – L2 Journal, 2022
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been at the center of the debates on which approaches are most effective for structuring, planning, and implementing language courses. Several articles have focused on its effectiveness (Bryfonsky & McKay, 2017; Long, 2016; González-Lloret & Nielson, 2015), but few have shared specific implementation…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Spanish, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Allen, Heather Willis; Goodspeed, Lauren – L2 Journal, 2018
This qualitative study explored the impact of reading on writing in a collegiate French culture course that emphasized genre-based writing pedagogy. In particular, the study focused on how 19 advanced collegiate learners of French used model text resources in writing a letter-manifesto and what their perceptions were of participation in…
Descriptors: French, College Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Sang, Yuan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
This research synthesis collected, compiled, and analyzed 29 academic research articles that were published in China in recent years. It addressed and explored the issues in Chinese undergraduate students' English writing and the possible reasons causing and/or explaining the issues. It was discovered that many Chinese undergraduate students have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, College Second Language Programs
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Zohrabi, Mohammad – English Language Teaching, 2011
This study reports on how a heterogeneous mixed-ability large class (63 students) turned into a cohesive and functioning class. To promote learner autonomy, students were made responsible to identify their own needs and objectives. The participants of this study consisted of undergraduate chemistry students who had taken the English for General…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Gómez Flórez, Erica; Jiménez Díaz, Jhon Jaime; Lopera, Sergio Alonso – HOW, 2011
Content-Based Instruction (CBI) may result in improved proficiency in language skills due to the meaningful combination of subject matter and foreign language as a means of communication. This paper shows how university students improved their level of English by means of a content methodology as they attended a course called Topics in Molecular…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers