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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"ESL learners"”.
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Listening comprehension strategies of Arabic-speaking ESL learners
… participants. A total of 30 Arabic-speaking ESL learners were administered a listening comprehension test and a listening strategy use questionnaire. The test instrument was constructed by the researcher to serve as both a listening comprehension measure and a listening input upon which the …
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Teaching strategy use for oral communication tasks to ESL learners
… investigates the effects of strategy training on ESL learners' strategy use and performance on oral communication tasks. Research into the teaching and learning of speaking in the ESL context is relatively neglected and strategy training is unheard of in very many L2 oral classrooms. A review of …
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The learning strategies of beginning ESL learners at the primary level
… learning strategies used by beginning level ESL learners at the primary level. Scholars in the field have suggested that successful language learners employ certain strategies to aid their learning of a second language and that unsuccessful language learners could be taught these language …
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Explicitness in CALL Feedback for Enhancing Advanced ESL Learners' Grammar Skills
… adaptive methods of feedback delivery based on learners' performance. Both issues were examined within the context of a computer-based tutorial designed to help advanced Korean learners of English reduce overpassivization errors in academic writing. Utilizing a pretest, posttest, and a delayed …
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The impact of multiliteracies and multimodality on ESL learners: Using Neuroimaging Technologies
… learning on adult English Second Language (ESL) students’ performance through multimodal tasks. Students’ multimodality background was collected through a technology questionnaire. Behavioural and fNIRS data were collected before and after multiliteracies learning. Results showed that there …
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Teaching Speaking focused on Pronunciation to Adult ESL Learners in the US
… for any adult English as a Second Language (ESL) learner is a challenge in and of itself. This is particularly pronounced in speaking skills. On top of that, if adult ESL learners try to learn the pronunciation of certain consonant sounds in English, where the consonant does not exist in …
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A COMPARISON BETWEEN TAIWANESE ESL LEARNERS' PERCEPTION AND PRODUCTION OF ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION
<p>This study examined Taiwanese ESL learners' perception and production of English interdental fricatives (IFs) with respect to three variables: perception errors, production errors, and three ranges of length of residence (LOR) in the US (LOR < 1 year; LOR= 3-4 years; LOR ; at least 7 years). …
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Utilizing ESL Learners’ Socio-Cognitive Resources to Enhance General Academic Vocabulary Acquisition
… to which English as a Second Language Learner (ESL) graduate students’ socio-cognitive resources (the combination of culturally relevant imagery and first language (L1) facilitate their Second Language (L2) general academic vocabulary acquisition in a social learning setting. The study …
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Vocabulary comprehension of advanced ESL learners in academic reading: A collective case study
This study explored ESL speakers' vocabulary comprehension of unfamiliar words. The researcher examined the ways the participants dealt with unfamiliar vocabulary, factors that influenced their vocabulary comprehension strategies, and word retention rates. For data collection, the participants' …
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Self-assessment of communicative ability : investigation of a novel tool for ESL learners
… use of a self-assessment tool in the field of ESL. The study involved a group of Francophones telling, in their own words, the story represented in a wordless cartoon storyboard. Segments lasting 30 seconds were taken from each of the recorded story tellings and played to a large group of …
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Developing L2 reading fluency: Implementation of an assisted repeated reading program with adult ESL learners
… an effective way for adult second language (L2) learners of English to develop oral and silent reading fluency rates. Reading fluency is an underdeveloped construct in second language studies, both in research and practice. This study first lays out a framework of text difficulty levels and …
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Extending the Morpheme Order Studies: Acquisition of Modal and Non-Modal Verbal Morphemes by ESL Learners
… were used to examine a total of twenty-seven ESL learners from a wide range of L1 backgrounds: <em>Japanese, Arabic, Chinese, Thai, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu,</em> and<em> Vietnamese</em>. The study reveals a universal pattern in ESL learners’ acquisition of English verb morphology. The study …
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A Study of the Effectiveness of Annotations in Improving the Listening Comprehension of Intermediate ESL Learners
… old question of what kind of input is best for ESL learners, but it approaches the question with a new perspective. There are many options when it comes to a choice of curriculum, both in terms of the method that is used and the materials that are available. Feature film is one important …
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Researching the effects of reading for pleasure in English on adult esl learners' acquisition of English
… of pleasure reading for adult second language learners. This study was conducted as a first step in searching for such evidence. A web survey was designed and run with 70 English as a Second Language learners, international graduate students at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, to …
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Investigating the Influence of Age and Language Aptitude on the Implicit and Explicit Knowledge of ESL Learners
… learning outcomes of second language (L2) learners. Language aptitude, as comprised of a set of cognitive abilities, mediates the negative influence of learning age, and thus helps to make up for a late start in learning an L2 (DeKeyser, 2000). However, in terms of understanding the nature …
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