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Anaphora Resolution by EFL Learners

Korean Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2013
In order to understand how grammatical and thematic roles cues influence the anaphora resolution processes of Korean EFL learners and how they differ from those of native speakers of English and Korean respectively, an experiment employing a self-paced reading task was performed with native speakers of English (NSE), higher-level learners (HLL), lower ...
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Iranian EFL learners' compliment responses

System, 2012
Abstract The present study aimed at examining the knowledge of Iranian EFL learners in responding to compliments in English, with a focus on the variables of gender, age and educational background. The data were collected through a 24-item English Discourse Completion Task (DCT) to which 40 male and female EFL learners were asked to provide short ...
Hamid Allami, Maryam Montazeri
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Challenges in engaging EFL learners

Language Teaching for Young Learners
Abstract This study investigated the challenges in engaging young learners in English as a foreign language (EFL) classes in primary schools. It further examines engagement challenges across the different school settings, rural and urban, as well as teachers’ perspectives on addressing these challenges.
Trang Le Diem Bui, Dao Thi Thuy Nguyen, Truc Thi Thanh Ly, Khoa Dang Nguyen   +3 more
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Improving EFL learners' pragmatic awareness

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2003
This paper overviews the ways in which EFL learners' pragmatic awareness can be developed in language classrooms through focused instruction and practice. It argues that effective communication requires awareness of the conventions governing language use and attention to the characteristics of the context and the interlocutors, besides linguistic ...
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Application of ClassPoint tool in reducing EFL learners’ test anxiety: an empirical evidence from Saudi Arabia

Journal of Computers in Education, 2023
Humaira Akram, Abbas Hussein Abdelrady
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DEVELOPING EFL LEARNERS’ COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Galaxy International Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 2021
This article analyzes the concept of communicative competence from various points of view and defines active forms and methods of teaching English. Communication-based activities help in making classroom situation more interactive and provide as much opportunities for exposure to English as possible.
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REFERENCE RESOLUTION OF EFL LEARNERS

Proceedings of the 23rd International Academic Conference, Venice, 2016
This study aimed to investigate first and total fixation times of pronouns in native English speakers and Turkish EFL speakers by using an eye tracking device, to specify the correlation between first and total fixation times of pronouns and perceived difficulty of understanding (PDU, and finally, to disclose participants?
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Can AI Empower L2 Education? Exploring Its Influence on the Behavioural, Cognitive and Emotional Engagement of EFL Teachers and Language Learners

European Journal of Education
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming L2 education, yet its specific impacts on English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers and language learners' engagement remain understudied.
Changyin Zhou, Fanfan Hou
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Idiomphobia: The EFL Learner's Syndrome

International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, 2000
Though separated by no less than the Atlantic Ocean, Emily Bronte and Nathaniel Hawthorne are indeed close intellectual neighbors . None of them is likely to have heard of, or even read the other. Their expressions of the fierce impact of nature, of the unaccessible depths of human naturalness , specially the domain of heathen love, however, prove ...
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Turkish EFL Learners’ Readiness for Learner Autonomy

2014
The notion of 'learner autonomy' has become more and more crucial in the field of language learning for the last three decades due to the development of learner centered approaches in education. Current literature on learner autonomy suggests that the perception and practice of autonomous learning change according to specific cultural and ...
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