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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Focus on Form"”.
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Extensive Focus on Form, Text -Based Online Chat, and Second Language Learning
The primary data consisted of 321 FFEs as well as 112 EEs identified in the chatscripts of the role-play interactions. The posttests results indicated that the mean percentage of correct scores was 43.0% for the FFE-based test items and 17.9% for the EE-based ones, respectively. A chi-square test …
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The Influence of Pretask Instructions and Pretask Planning on Learners' Focus on Form During Task -Based Interaction
For task-based interaction, the results revealed a main effect of language focus and an interaction effect involving instructions and language focus. That is, the learners focused more on lexis than morphosyntax irrespective of planning and instruction types, but the difference between lexis and …
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Focus on form from the inside : the significance of grammatical sensitivity for L2 learning in communicative ESL classrooms
Are analytic learners at an advantage in second language (L2) learning? Early research on aptitude (Carroll, 1962) established the significance of grammatical sensitivity when learners are in structure-based instructional settings. This study addressed the question of whether grammatical …
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The Integration of Focus-on-Form Instruction Within Culture -Based Lessons: Its Effects on Students' Knowledge on Vocabulary, Grammar, and Culture in 2nd- and 3rd -Semester French Courses
… analysis revealed that despite instructions, teachers had often a tendency to follow their natural teaching style. Furthermore, the use of English was used among teachers when providing direct and delayed translations, and feedback to their students. In terms of the quantitative analysis, …
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The Role of Attention in Second Language Development
This pilot study investigated the role of attention in language learning. I began by examining the most current research into how attention functions in the brain; then I discussed how attention as a cognitive mechanism is believed to fit into models of data processing and language learning. Once …
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The Role of Attention in Second Language Development
This pilot study investigated the role of attention in language learning. I began by examining the most current research into how attention functions in the brain; then I discussed how attention as a cognitive mechanism is believed to fit into models of data processing and language learning. Once …
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Learner-generated focus on lexical form during task-based interaction
Researchers have argued that focus on form in the context of meaningful communication may facilitate second language (L2) learning (Long, 1991; Long & Robinson, 1998). Empirical studies have found that focus on form through implicit negative feedback has a favorable effect on learners' L2 …
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The Acquisition of the English Present Perfect by a Speaker of Brazilian Portuguese
<p>This study contributes to the debate about the importance of focus on form to adult second language acquisition with an investigation of a Portuguese-speaking adult's acquisition of English present perfect from a historical, correlational, and qualitative viewpoint. Using a husband-wife …
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Duolingo and HelloTalk: analyzing and evaluating language learning applications using SLA theory and user feedback
This study performs an evaluation of two language learning apps using established SLA principles and user-feedback through a survey and interviews. A survey asking users about level appropriateness, focus on form, Zone of Proximal Development and scaffolding, interaction, communicative language, …
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Language Use in a Spanish -English Dual Immersion Classroom: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
… develop higher levels of Spanish in dual immersion classrooms than in other program types, diglossia may be inevitable. The findings suggest that students may use more Spanish if teachers monitor them more closely during groupwork and if the school encourages them to develop investments in …
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The Effect of Textual Enhancement on Second Language Learner Reading Comprehension and Form Recognition
Research in second language acquisition has established that some sort of focus on form may be beneficial to adult second language learners. One type of focus on form that has received attention is textual enhancement. The instructor attempts to draw the learner's attention to specific forms by …
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The Effects of Textual Enhancement and Simplified Input on L2 Comprehension and Acquisition of Non-Meaningful Grammatical Form
The results for acquisition demonstrated that textual enhancement and simplified input did not help learners acquire the target form. However, the results for comprehension revealed that while textual enhancement had no effect on total idea units in the texts, textual enhancement aided recall of …
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The effects of different error correction conditions in learner-initiated noticing : in written corrective feedback
… aimed to design a suitable pedagogic study on the effects of different error correction conditions (ECCs) on learner-initiated noticing. With this in mind, I sought to tackle comprehensive (eventually replaced by semi-comprehensive) error correction (EC) in an open, uncontrolled and …
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The effects of integrated versus isolated form-focused instruction on the written performance of English-as-an-Additional-Language secondary school students
Over the past forty years, second-language teaching methodologies have evolved from heavily grammar-based syllabuses to fully communicative models that largely neglect the role of instruction in form. Nowadays, many methodologies attempt to merge these two extremes into more inclusive approaches …
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Oral Corrective Feedback, Individual Differences, and L2 Acquisition of French Past Tenses
… as an input-providing strategy and clarification requests as an output-prompting strategy (Ellis, 2006; Ellis & Sheen, 2011). Drawing on the Interaction hypothesis (Long, 1981a, 1983b, 1996) both strategies can be considered a type of focus-on-form. The effectiveness of oral corrective feedback …
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The effects of processing instruction and re-exposure on interpretation discourse level tasks: the case of Japanese passive forms
The present study was conducted to investigate possible interpretation discourse level effects of processing instruction and re-exposure to processing instruction on the acquisition of a specific feature of the Japanese linguistics system: namely Japanese passive forms. Processing instruction is a …
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Beyond postmodernism: London fiction at the millennium
This thesis is concerned with an analysis of London fiction at the millennium (leading up to and beyond the year 2000). This study involves an exploration of texts that can in some way be regarded as occupying a space beyond postmodernism. It explores how a selection of contemporary London novels …
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Languaging and learning compared across EFL course delivery modes
… in three settings that are representative of common course delivery modes: i) face-to-face group classes; ii) one-to-one private tutoring sessions; and iii) individual online courses. Conducted within a Vygotskian (1978, 1987) sociocultural framework, data for this quasi-experimental study include …
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