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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"EFL learners"”.
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Arab EFL learners' translation: A linguistic appraisal
… sentences excerpted from texts translated by EFL Arab learners. These sentences were rated by ten native American speakers of English.
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Enhancing Chinese EFL Learners' Oral English Through Multimedia
<p>This project reviews relevant literature and offers specific ways for teachers to use communicative practices in the English classroom. Based on Communicative Language Learning, this project uses many authentic materials, like videos, speaking activities, which could help develop students’ oral …
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Judgment of countability of English nouns by Korean EFL learners
… of the present study was to investigate Korean EFL learners' judgments of countability of English nouns because a correct judgment of noun countability is a key factor for the appropriate use of English indefinite articles and noun phrases. To investigate the subjects' judgments of noun …
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Speech intelligibility: a study of Iraqi EFL learners’ accented English
… it has not been applied in the Iraqi EFL classrooms and pronunciation research (see Al- Juwari, 1997; Ahmed, 2000; Mahud, 1998; Rashid, 2009; Khudhair, 2015; AlAbdely and Thai, 2016; Al-Owaidi, 2017). The theoretical assumption of the study is that an intelligibility level of universal …
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The Acquisition of Past Verb Forms By Saudi EFL Learners
… progressive form, past perfect form) by Saudi learners of English. This study argues that Arabic and English share similar grammatical characteristics in the past verb forms. It also sheds light on the role of these similarities in facilitating the acquisition process of the targeted forms. …
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Gender based variation in employing suggestion strategies by Iraqi EFL learners
… its mere structure, suggestions are crucial to EFL learners to master to communicate their ideas. Since the inception of the speech act theory, scholars have reported incomplete or impolite use of different speech acts, including suggestions from different regional contexts. These ill-mannered …
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Allocation of attention in EFL learners' oral performance across multiple task repetitions
… shares a common theoretical background of learners’ attention, awareness, and perception (Levelt, 1989). The former has focused on learners’ prioritized attention to language aspects (e.g., fluency) in their oral performance. Furthermore, researchers have explored learners’ attention during …
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Interlanguage refusals : a cross-sectional study of Thai EFL learners' refusals in English
… The data were collected from 36 Thai EFL learners at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, intermediate and advanced, using four open role-plays. The role-plays were designed to incorporate different combinations of sociolinguistic variables of power and distance, as expounded in …
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SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING: JORDANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES
… SITES AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING: JORDANIAN EFL LEARNERS’ PRACTICES AND EXPERIENCES MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Christina C. McIntyre The purpose of this mixed-methods sequential explanatory study was to identify the EFL learners’ practices and understand their experiences with SNSs (social …
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The effect of racialization on EFL learners’ conceptualizations of the native speaker construct
… the extent to which racialization shapes EFL learners’ conceptualizations of the native speaker construct through an experimental design. Three hundred and fourteen university students studying at English-medium universities in Turkey were invited to take an online matched guise test. They …
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The productive and receptive knowledge of collocations by advanced Arabic-speaking ESL/EFL learners
… collocations among advanced Arabic-speaking learners of English. Furthermore, it investigates whether the language environment (ESL or EFL) has an influence on the acquisition of collocations. It also explores whether there is a significant difference between participants' performance on …
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Exploring the Role of Vocabulary in EFL Learners’ Speaking Proficiency: A Mixed Methods Study
… of tertiary-level English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in China from macro, meso and micro levels. At the macro level, Phase I aimed to quantitatively probe into EFL learners’ vocabulary repertoires and speaking proficiency, particularly to explore the contribution of EFL learners’ …
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A Hierarchy of Grammatical Difficulty for Japanese EFL Learners: Multiple-Choice Items and Processability Theory
This study investigated the difficulty order of 38 grammar structures obtained from an analysis of multiple-choice items using a Rasch analysis. The order was compared with the order predicted by processability theory and the order in which the structures appear in junior and senior high school …
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Exploring the Assessment Aspect of Differentiated Instruction: College EFL Learners' Perspectives on Tiered Performance Tasks
… instruction in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) environment, this case study explored Taiwanese college students’ perspectives on tiered performance tasks and educational implications of the perspectives with regard to EFL learning and teaching at the tertiary level. Grounded in the …
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Differences in written language between Japanese EFL learners with different proficiency: From Systemic Functional Linguistic perspectives
… strategies in writing between Japanese EFL learners of different proficiency levels. By adopting Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) as its theoretical framework, the thesis also aims to explore the potential of SFL to clarify what linguistic resources learners have learned and have yet …
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Factors Explaining EFL Learners' Performance in a Timed Essay Writing Test: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
… on these findings, practical implications for EFL writing instruction, writing assessment, and research methodology were addressed.
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Examining the impact of homework-based instruction on EFL learners' ability to predict English phrase rhythm
Many factors have been described as contributing to Japanese students' difficulties with the oral production of English, including the fundamental differences between Japanese and English (Cross, 2000), the segmental and word-level focus of current instruction at junior and senior high schools …
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Typologizing Native Language Influence on Intonation in a Second Language: Three Transfer Phenomena in Japanese EFL Learners
… for overcoming challenges in the analysis of L2 learners' intonation production due to the interlanguage mixing of their native and L2 systems. The proposed method involves first creating a stylization of the learner's intonation contour and then running queries to extract phonologically-relevant …
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