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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Second Language Pedagogy"”.
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Investigating oral performance on controlled versus spontaneous speaking tasks: Implications for second language pedagogy and assessment
Assessment tasks of second language (L2) proficiency can be loosely classified into controlled and spontaneous tasks. While spontaneous tasks are widely accepted as authentic proficiency instruments, they can be time-consuming and labor-intensive to develop, administer, and score. In contrast, …
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Comparing the interpretation of text message punctuation by native and non-native English speakers
… raises questions about the ways different language groups perceive and produce various features of text messages. This project employs a mixed-methods design to investigate the ways native English speakers and L2 English learners perceive punctuation in text messages. The data set includes …
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Marking time : the acquisition of tense and grammatical aspect by French-speaking learners of English
… influences of lexical asp aspect and first language (L1) knowledge on the second language (L2) acquisition of verb morphology. The participants were adult French-speaking learners of English who represented a wide range of proficiency in their knowledge of simple past. The analyses examined …
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The journey of Chinese students from English 106 maintstream composition courses to the Purdue Writing Lab: An institutional needs analysis of Chinese students
<p>According to the <em>Purdue University International Students and Scholars Enrollment & Statistical Report 10-year Enrollment Trends</em> (2014), over the past ten years there has been an 85% growth in the number of international students matriculating at Purdue. As stated in the <em>Purdue …