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Flavia P. D'Souza; Padmanabha C. H. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
Language is crucial for adapting to society, and learning different languages enhances human efficiency. Learning a second language involves acquiring any language in addition to one's native language. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has two meanings, generally, it describes the process of learning a second language, and more specifically, it…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories, Grammar
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Yi-Mei Chen; Lai-yin Yang; Sandy Yu-Rung Yang; Chih-yung Tsai – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2024
Attaining a high level of proficiency in speaking a second language (L2) is a formidable challenge, particularly in many English as a foreign language (EFL) settings, such as Taiwan. In such environments, students often encounter limited opportunities for English-speaking practice within formal classroom settings due to the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Liudmila Shafirova; Maria Helena Araújo e Sá – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Watching Netflix, YouTube or TikTok videos are day-to-day activities of young people which can produce different language encounters. We argue that watching videos online opens opportunities for students to use their plurilingual repertoires through different and combined modalities and analysing these practices is useful to construct the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Social Media, Interactive Video
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Takayuki Nishihara – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study explored the diverse responses of Japanese university-level learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) to lexically easy short poems. These participants had attained a high level of English proficiency and were able to grasp the literal meaning of the poems. The investigation employed confidence level and reading time as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Zhicheng Mao; Icy Lee – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2024
Although a surfeit of research has investigated the technicality and efficacy of feedback, much less attention has been directed towards student engagement with written feedback. In second-language writing scholarship, student engagement is considered the linchpin that connects feedback provision with learning outcomes and is crucial for feedback…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Feedback (Response), Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
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Junyan Guo; Martin East – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2024
The importance of vocabulary when speaking is not only demonstrated in models of second language speech production and speaking proficiency but also reflected in rating criteria and assessment scales. The present study examined and compared micro-level lexical information in a speaking task from two complementary stakeholders' perspectives…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Speech Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Vocabulary
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Allison Taylor-Adams – Modern Language Journal, 2024
This article examines the relationship between collective memory and individual second-language (L2) learning motivation as articulated in a qualitative research study with language revitalization practitioners. These practitioners learn and teach their languages and engage in other activities in order to bring Indigenous or ancestral languages…
Descriptors: Motivation, Language Maintenance, Memory, Second Language Learning
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Ana Pellicer-Sánchez; Stuart Webb; Andi Wang – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Lexical coverage, i.e. the extent to which words in a text are known, is considered an important predictor of reading comprehension, with studies suggesting 98% lexical coverage leads to adequate comprehension. However, no studies to date have examined how the various lexical coverage percentages suggested in the literature are reflected by the…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language)
Zoe A. Zawadzki – ProQuest LLC, 2024
High variability pronunciation training (HVPT) has been found to be successful for training various segmentals, such as the challenging /l/-/[voiced alveolar approximant]/ contrast, and suprasegmental features such as tone and pitch accent. These studies have found that HVPT is an effective method not only in helping learners improve their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yuko Goto Butler – Language Teaching, 2024
Self-assessment (SA), as an activity for reflecting on one's own performance and abilities (Black & Wiliam, 1998), has been a topic of interest to educators over the years. Among second language (L2) educators, SA began growing in popularity in the 1970s and 1980s, when L2 educators' focus shifted from analyzing linguistic systems to examining…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Second Language Learning, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
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Ingrid Mora-Plaza; Joan C. Mora; Mireia Ortega; Cristina Aliaga-Garcia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study examines the effects of task complexity on second language (L2) pronunciation accuracy and global pronunciation measures in pronunciation-unfocused tasks and assesses the relationship between acoustic and listener-based pronunciation measures. Eighty-two Catalan/Spanish learners of English performed simple and complex versions of a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Nana Kwon – English Teaching, 2024
This study investigates how working memory (WM) capacity and L2 linguistic knowledge affect L2 literal and inferential reading comprehension, considering the presence or absence of background knowledge. Eighty upper-intermediate to advanced adult English learners participated, completing tasks to assess WM capacity, background knowledge, L2…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Prior Learning, Second Language Learning, Knowledge Level
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Hengjie Chen; Dingfang Shu – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Academic self-concept, a central psychological construct that powerfully explains learners' varied motivations and learning behaviors, needs to be further explored to deepen our understanding of language learner psychology. Drawing on self-reported learning histories, this study investigates the English self-concept of successful English as a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Özgür Parlak – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
The interactionist approach to second language acquisition has yielded a plethora of studies confirming the positive impact of interaction and corrective feedback on second language (L2) development. Nevertheless, only a few studies have attempted to investigate the development of L2 prosody using the interactionist approach. The current study…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Suprasegmentals
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Joseph B. Quinto; Manilyn R. Cacanindin – Advanced Education, 2024
Despite numerous studies about language learning strategies (LLSs), many learners still misunderstand their effectiveness, thinking they require too much effort for minimal gain. Additionally, students have varied and conflicting preferences for LLSs, and factors like cultural background influence their choices, indicating a need for more research…
Descriptors: Classification, Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students
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