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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
wiley   +1 more source

What Nature Does the Persian Infinitive Have and How Is It Projected? An Explanation in the Distributed Morphology Framework [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān
The categorization and syntactic structure of the infinitive have been subjects of debate, with differing views considering it either as a noun or a verb.
Claris Sarkissian, Fatemeh Bahrami, Mazdak Anoushe   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two Types of Noun Incorporation: A Lexical Analysis [PDF]

, 1989
This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.jstor.org/.In recent work Noun Incorporation has been argued to result from head movement, in which the head of an object noun phrase moves into the verb, creating a complex ...
Rosen, Sara Thomas
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Learner Engagement in L2 Vocabulary Learning through Communicative Tasks: Comparing Learner‐ and Teacher‐Generated Content

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examined how task design, task motivation, and learner engagement influenced L2 vocabulary learning by comparing learner‐generated content (LGC) and teacher‐generated content (TGC) in a classroom setting. One hundred sixty‐three Japanese high school students from five intact classes were assigned to LGC, TGC, or a test‐only control ...
Gaia Oikawa, Takumi Uchihara
wiley   +1 more source

Chann Noun oral history recording

, 2009
An audio recording of an oral history of Chann Noun, an immigrant from Cambodia,on his experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime and spending 4 years in a refugee camp before he was able to come to the ...
Noun, Chann
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Specificity distinction [PDF]

, 2013
This paper is concerned with semantic noun phrase typology, focusing on the question of how to draw fine-grained distinctions necessary for an accurate account of natural language phenomena.
Farkas, Donka F.
core  

Receptive Meaning‐Recall Knowledge of Derivational Morphology Among EFL Learners: A Case for L1‐Population‐Specific Assessment

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Vocabulary knowledge plays a crucial role in L2 proficiency, significantly impacting learners' reading comprehension. Although extensive research has explored whether knowledge of base words extends to recognition of derivational forms, results are inconsistent, especially among learners from non‐Indo‐European linguistic backgrounds.
Mastoor Al‐Kaboody, Geoffrey G. Pinchbeck, Joseph P. Vitta, Christopher Nicklin, Paweł Mandera, Stuart McLean   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering autonomy in language learning: the sustainable impact of data-driven learning on noun collocation acquisition

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
This study explores the effectiveness of Data-Driven Learning (DDL) in teaching noun collocations to pre-tertiary learners in Hubei Province, China, using the online corpus tool ‘Corpusmate’.
Mengyu He, Qin Xie
doaj   +1 more source

Lexical Syllabus in Elementary and Secondary Education: Construction and Implementation

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Nonnative language users operate with significantly limited vocabularies compared to native speakers, particularly when the language is learnt in school contexts. This paper demonstrates how empirical research on vocabulary learning combined with experience in teaching and curricula design has informed the principled construction of a lexical ...
Batia Laufer
wiley   +1 more source