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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Receptive knowledge"”.
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The productive and receptive knowledge of collocations by advanced Arabic-speaking ESL/EFL learners
Although it is widely acknowledged that collocations play an important role in the field of second language acquisition, a number of previous studies have reported students' lack of collocational competence and the difficulties they encounter in learning and using collocations. The present study …
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Study of an older child's first language learned as the minority language in a bilingual setting
… a ""judgment of grammaticality"" test to assess receptive knowledge."
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Cross-Linguistic Influences on English Loanword Learnability in the Japanese Context
… was an investigation into the aural and written receptive knowledge of the English semantics of English lexis that is loanwords in the Japanese language and the predictive strength of the variables of semantic distance, concreteness/abstractness, polysemy, phonological distance, number of …
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Leveraging the L1: the role of EAL learners' first language in their acquisition of English vocabulary
… that L1-mediation was associated with improved knowledge of the target vocabulary, one found an advantage associated with not using the L1, and the remaining study had mixed results. None of these studies were conducted with linguistically diverse groups of students, typical in English schools. …
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The comparison of the effectiveness of the Observe Hypothesise Experiment and the Presentation Practice Production models on teaching procedural language of circumlocution and stalling devices to upper intermediate EFL students
… effect of explicit instruction on productive and receptive acquisition of chunks b) the comparison of the effect of the frameworks to teach the same chunks c) the students’ views on the usefulness of the chosen formulaic sequences and their opinions on the frameworks employed. In order to address …
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Polysemous English phrasal verbs: EFL textbook distribution, students' receptive and productive knowledge and teachers' beliefs in the Greek Cypriot context
… textbooks, ii) English language learners’ knowledge of phrasal verbs and iii) English foreign language teachers’ beliefs about phrasal verb learning and teaching. This first study examined the occurrence and recurrence of phrasal verbs in six English foreign language textbooks in order to …
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A Comparison of the Effects of Comprehension-Based and Production-Based Instruction on the Acquisition of Vocabulary and Grammar by Young Japanese Learners of English
… led to successful acquisition of both receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge. The results, however, also indicated that in some respects the CBI was more effective than the PBI. In particular, the CBI demonstrated better acquisition of the adjectives than the PBI - an advantage …