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Direct linkAlsford, Elizabeth; Ralephata, Andrew; Bolderson, Sarah; Curtin, Martina; Parish, Esther; Klaber, Victoria; Griffin, Sue; Nash, Lisa; Cullen, Rachel; Musoke, Brenda; Bhalla, Sangheeta; Walker, Lindsay; Duffer, Luisa; O'Sullivan, Sylvia; Knowland, Victoria; Cozens, Suzanne; McLaren, Lindsey; Camilleri, Bernard; Halil, Suzan; Furze, Rachael; Leung, Wai; O'Gorman, Ciara; Carver, Verity; Young, Dorothy; Pring, Tim – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2017
Substantial evidence exists that social circumstances can affect children's language development. As a result many children in socially deprived areas start school with delayed language, which may persist and adversely affect their attainment. We assessed the language of children in seven reception classes in a London (UK) borough and followed the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, English, Native Language, English (Second Language)
Download full textAjideh, Parviz; Yaghoubi-Notash, Massoud; Khalili, Abdolreza – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The present study investigated the contribution of the EFL students' learning strategies to the explanation of the variance in their results on language tests. More specifically, it examined the role of these strategies as bias factors in the results of English cloze tests. Based on this aim, first, 158 intermediate EFL learners were selected from…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Tests, Cloze Procedure, Foreign Countries
Dali, Ning – English Language Teaching, 2017
The increase of international exchange in education triggers strong demand for learning English language skills in various academic disciplines among Chinese students, which brings up a wide implementation of EAP (English for academic purposes) learning in universities in China. However, the teaching and learning result do not seem to be as…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency
Karakoç, Dilek; Köse, Gül Durmusoglu – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
This study is an attempt to clarify the incremental and multidimensional nature of foreign language vocabulary development and its relation to the participants' reading and writing performances and general language ability of English as a foreign language (EFL). With this principle aim, the current study investigated the relationship between…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Ebrahimzadeh, Mohsen; Alavi, Sepideh – Teaching English with Technology, 2017
The study examined the effect of a commercial digital video game on high school students' language learning motivation. Participants were 241 male students randomly assigned to one of the following three treatments: Readers, who intensively read the game's story; Players, who played the digital video game; and Watchers, who watched two classmates…
Descriptors: Video Games, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, High School Students
Dewaele, Jean-Marc – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
An analysis of data collected from 2347 users of English on their self-reported swearing behaviour in English revealed significant higher values for the 1159 native English (L1) users than for the 1165 English foreign language (LX) users. Parallel analyses on the data of the L1 and LX users revealed that the interlocutor effect was slightly…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage
Martinez, Maria L.; Colaner, Kevin T. – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
Global participation in international education in the last two decades has increased exponentially. International students face difficulties in adjusting to the culture of their host country due to their unique needs (Bertram, Poulakis, Elsasser & Kumar, 2014). This article presents themes comprising the international education phenomenon…
Descriptors: International Education, Student Experience, English (Second Language), Asians
Kigamwa, James Chamwada; Ndemanu, Michael Takafor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
There is a need to embrace translingualism in order to avert covert tensions that emanate from the ascription of linguistic supremacy to "standard" English, especially among teachers of immigrant children and in overall public discourse. Drawing inspiration from the 1974 resolutions of the Conference on College Composition and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Standard Spoken Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Alpaslan, Muhammet Mustafa; Yalvac, Bugrahan – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
As the conditionally accepted students enroll in the graduate courses, not having met the English proficiency requirement in their program yet creates a vulnerable state of mind for them. This phenomenological study explores the anxiety state of the conditionally admitted international students at a US higher institution. Six science and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Anxiety, Science Education, Majors (Students)
Yang, Li – L2 Journal, 2017
This study investigated whether the effects of pragmatics instruction delivered via a self-access website in a Chinese as a foreign language learning environment vary according to learners' language proficiency. The website provided learners with explicit instruction in how to express gratitude appropriately in Chinese and offered them pragmatic…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Chinese, Web Sites, Pragmatics
Somers, Thomas – International Review of Education, 2017
This article addresses the inclusion of immigrant minority language students in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) bilingual education programmes. It reviews results of research on (1) the reasons, beliefs and attitudes underlying immigrant minority language parents' and students' choice for CLIL programmes; (2) these students'…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Bilingual Education Programs
Rolstad, Kellie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
Recent developments in education policy in the USA have focused attention on language and literacy, especially for bilingual learners, in US schools. More specifically, these efforts, prominently related to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), focus on the development of "academic English" for immigrant students.…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Common Core State Standards
Can, Cem – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
As learner corpora have presently become readily accessible, it is practicable to examine interlanguage errors and carry out error analysis (EA) on learner-generated texts. The data available in a learner corpus enable researchers to investigate authentic learner errors and their respective frequencies in terms of types and tokens as well as…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Haj-Broussard, Michelle; Olson Beal, Heather K.; Boudreaux, Nicole – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2017
This study examined seven Louisiana kindergarten immersion teachers' practices to evaluate students' oral target language production and compare the oral production elicited when different instructional practices were used over a single semester. Three rounds of three 20-minute observations in three different contexts--circle time, direct…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Gere, Bryan O.; Burnett, Royce D.; Flowers, Carl R.; Akaaboune, Ouadie – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2017
Background: State-federal (VR) program efficiency is the focus of empirical research because of increases in the magnitude and types of program requests, possibly funding cuts and class for models to more appropriately measure and evaluate performance. Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the impact socioeconomic diversity has on…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Delivery Systems, Socioeconomic Influences, Employment Level
