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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Oral Production"”.
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The relationship between auditory discrimination and oral production of Spanish sounds in children and adults
… discrimination, and an aspect of speaking, oral production. Both tests were given to a group of children and a group of adults to determine if both tests taken together would show one group to have a higher foreign language aptitude than the other group.Both tests were constructed for this …
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Quantifying syntactic priming in oral production : a corpus-based investigation into dyadic interaction of L1-L1 and L2-L2 speakers of English
… that of a related form in a subsequent language production, i.e. target. The present study uses an innovative combination of corpus-linguistic methods and manual analyses to identify syntactic priming of verb-particle constructions (e.g., taking out a paper vs. taking a paper out), the dative …
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The development of an oral production/listening comprehension course for the low elementary level of the intensive English institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Made available in DSpace on 2021-04-22T18:45:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Janice_Moy.pdf: 5793932 bytes, checksum: 9ec10c7acadc5fb155181509396bbc81 (MD5) license.txt: 4802 bytes, checksum: 58353f9dd6876860dd5221f3d7872a95 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1983
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The effects of ludic activities as a motivational strategy to evolve oral production of intermediate Intensive English I students of the Foreign Language department at the University of El Salvador
… have as a motivational strategy to evolve oral production of Intermediate Intensive English I students of the Foreign Language Department at the University of El Salvador. The research team reached the objective by using qualitative and quantitative guidelines. So, it led to a mixed method …
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Foreign language learning : an exploratory study on the external and internal influences affecting success.
… in predicting future success in the areas of oral production, written production, aural comprehension, and reading comprehension.
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Oral Corrective Feedback, Individual Differences, and L2 Acquisition of French Past Tenses
… the differential effects of two types of oral corrective feedback in a foreign language classroom: recasts 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, …
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The influence of task factors and language background on morphological processing in Spanish
… implicitness. Experiment 1, a written nonce verb production and acceptability judgment task, indicated that speakers are more likely to use and give higher acceptability ratings to regularly-inflected patterns, though irregular patterns do show some degree of productivity depending on those …
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A comparative study of the effects of processing instruction and output-based instruction on the acquisition of Italian future tense
… precedence to lexical items (in this case temporal adverbs, i.e. oggi, domani) over morphological markers during learner's interpretation of tenses. In order to carry out this investigation, first year students (39 subjects) in their second semester, learning Italian at the University of …
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Focus on form from the inside : the significance of grammatical sensitivity for L2 learning in communicative ESL classrooms
… with higher stages of grammatical development in oral production. However, it is also clear that grammatical sensitivity is not sufficient to account for differences among weak and strong learners in this population. It is argued that other learner abilities such as working memory capacity and …
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Mapping the Internalization of Parts of Speech in the Spoken Interlanguage of Adult American Learners of Russian from Level 1 to Level 3
… Russian. The data was collected from 47 recorded Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) at the Intermediate Mid, Intermediate High, Advanced Low, Advanced Mid, Advanced High, and Superior levels of speaking proficiency, administered by ACTFL certified testers in the context of the American Councils of …
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L2 acquisition of nuclear accent
… L2 Spanish. The English Experiment includes an Oral Production Task, in which nuclear accent shift is elicited in various contexts, including in compounds, utterances with a final indefinite pronoun, utterances with contrastive focus on a non-final word, and in broad focus intransitives. These …
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The second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in English, Italian and Polish: testing the Interface Hypothesis
… were tested using five tasks including oral production, interpretation and acceptability judgement/error correction.The main findings were that L2 near-native speakers are able to fully acquire both interface properties as well as narrow syntax properties, contra the predictions of the …
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A corpus-driven error analysis of the oral and written production of Leaving Certificate Spanish learners
… of learner Spanish comprised of the written and oral production of 100 candidates. This corpus was then analysed using a specific investigative corpus technique, Computer-aided Error Analysis (CEA, Dagneaux et al, 1998). CEA is a powerful apparatus in that it greatly facilitates the …
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Examining the impact of homework-based instruction on EFL learners' ability to predict English phrase rhythm
… 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 (Okita, 1999), and the propensity for English …
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Use of Verb-Noun Collocations by Advanced Learners of Chinese
… to the literature by investigating the oral production of Chinese verb-noun (V-N) collocations by a group of highly proficient learners comprised of both Chinese as a foreign language learners (CFL learners) and Chinese heritage language learners (CHL learners), as compared to Chinese …
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Investigating Syntactic and Lexical Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in the Writing of Heritage Speakers of Russian
… has examined key parameters of the HSs’ oral production. Important work has been done in heritage language (HL) pragmatics, morphology, and lexicon. However, very few studies have been conducted to investigate HL writing. The present study expands current research on heritage learners by …
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Chinese Foreign Language Attrition: Investigating Aspect Marker Usage
… environment and gain a fairly high level of oral proficiency retain much of their oral production abilities over a 12-year period. Additionally, subjects are able to retain and use syntax and lexicon from narratives they had previously memorized as beginning-level learners. However, …
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Saying ‘au revoir’ to anxiety in a heartbeat: the benefits of virtual reality for language learning.
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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The Effects of Two Methods on Training EFL University Students in Taiwan to Identify Three Non-Native Phonemic Contrasts
… well as whether perceptual training facilitated production. Moreover, to understand the participants’ language background and language attitudes toward accents, a survey was conducted.Eighty-eight EFL university students in Taiwan were randomly assigned to one of two experimental groups, …
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On L2 grammar and processing: the case of oblique relative clauses and the Null-Prep phenomenon
… hand. Three types of tasks were employed: an oral production task, an on-line self-paced grammaticality judgment task, and an on-line self-paced reading comprehension task. Results indicated that the acquisition of oblique relative clauses in Spanish is a problematic area for second language …
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