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Exploring Acoustic Overlap in Second Language Vowel Productions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the alignment of vowel categories between second language (L2) learners and first language (L1) speakers of the target language, as well as potential overlaps between adjacent vowels in terms of formant frequencies and duration.
Georgios P. Georgiou, Elena Savva
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing EFL Learners’ Writing Skills through Reflective Journaling

open access: yesJournal of English for Academic and Specific Purposes
Integrating an in-depth reflective activity is pivotal in these modern second language writing learning enterprises. In the light of a profound writing learning reflection, EFL learners can pave more rewarding and promising writing trajectories as they ...
Kristian Florensio Wijaya
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the Contextual Meaning of Idioms of Animals in Some Selected English Colloquial Utterances

open access: yesالأستاذ, 2019
English is rich of idioms. Learning idioms is considered an integral part of vocabulary learning. Idioms of animals are very popular in everyday English and ESL and EFL learners should encounter them .The problem of this study is due to the fact that ...
Mahmood Atiya Farhan
doaj   +1 more source

How Teachers See It: Understanding Young Learners’ Engagement in Primary L2 Classrooms

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigated primary school teachers’ views and the basis for assessing young learners’ engagement in second language classrooms. Using a sequential mixed‐methods design, it analyzed interviews (n = 10) and surveys (n = 134) from teachers of learners in Grades 3–5 (aged 8–10 years old) across 102 public primary schools in Vietnam ...
Phung Dao, Trang Le Diem Bui
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating Syntactic Errors among Saudi EFL Learners [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This study aims to identify and classify syntactic errors made by EFL Saudi secondary students and the causes behind these errors through written form. The study includes 15 female students of the third secondary grade enrolled in Third Secondary School for Females in Al-Quway'iyah.
Alqhtani, Malak, Journal AWEJ, Arab
openaire   +2 more sources

Seating arrangements : impact on the development of speaking abilities in EFL classrooms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Tesis (Pedagogía en Inglés)This research explores how seating arrangements impact on young EFL learners’ development of the speaking skill in Chilean classrooms.
Castro Figueroa, Paulina   +4 more
core  

From a Learner's Perspective: Tracing L2 Interactional Competence Development in Video‐Mediated Task‐Based Interactions

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In task‐based language learning, learners have to deal with the challenge of moving the task and the talk concurrently forward. In doing so, they develop sets of task‐relevant, interactional, and multimodal resources. In this study we use multimodal longitudinal conversation analysis to investigate one learner's L2 interactional competence ...
Carmen Konzett‐Firth, Ufuk Balaman
wiley   +1 more source

A case study on how language learning strategies are fostered in an EFL chilean classroom context [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Tesis (Profesor de Inglés para la Enseñanza Básica y Media y al grado académico de Licenciado en Educación)This mixed-methods case study attempted to explore how Language Learning Strategies (LLS) are fostered within a secondary level Chilean EFL public ...
Maggiolo Castro, Stefano Stefano   +1 more
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This is tom = /ZYZYS’tom/ pronunciation in beginners’ EFL textbooks then and now [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The textbook appears to be one of the most fundamental elements of all formal-setting foreign language teaching and learning. Textbooks function in a foreign language classroom in many capacities (Cunningsworth 1995), one of which is the provision of ...
Sobkowiak Włodzimierz
core   +1 more source

Leveraging ChatGPT for L2 Writing: Teacher Cognition and the Impact of Professional Development

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the development of 11 EFL teachers’ cognitions about ChatGPT for teaching L2 writing and providing feedback as they completed a professional development (PD) program. Data were collected through interviews, student writing with ChatGPT feedback, and think‐aloud protocols.
Payam Rahmati   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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