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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"advanced learners"”.
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Differentiated Instruction for 1st Grade Advanced Learners in Mathematics
… differentiated instruction in mathematics had on advanced learners perceived competence, persistence, and intrinsic motivation. Differentiation was implemented in a classroom through various activities that challenged student thinking. Students enrolled in a first grade class in an all girl school …
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Use of Verb-Noun Collocations by Advanced Learners of Chinese
… are still relatively few studies on language learners’ collocation knowledge and development within different local contexts. The current study intends to contribute to the literature by investigating the oral production of Chinese verb-noun (V-N) collocations by a group of highly proficient …
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Design, development, implementation and evaluation of a purilingual ICALL system for romance languages aimed at advanced learners
… learning of French, Spanish and Italian aimed at advanced learners. I investigated how techniques from NLP enhance the plurilingual teaching and learning of these languages. The ESPRIT toolset comprises dictionary tools, a concordancer, an input analysis and feedback module, custom-made animated …
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The perceived effectiveness of various forms of feedback on the acquisition of technical skills by advanced learners in simulation-based health professions education
… of augmented versus intrinsic feedback for advanced learners. This thesis aimed to determine what feedback type is perceived to be most effective by advanced care paramedics airing intraosseous access skills using simulation. Following the Design- Based Research framework, design-thinking …
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The Perception and Production of Portuguese Mid-Vowels by Native Speakers of American English
… examines the difficulties that beginning and advanced American learners of Portuguese have correctly perceiving and producing the Portuguese mid-vowels {o} and {e}. The beginning learners were enrolled in their second semester of Portuguese and had rudimentary knowledge of Portuguese. The …
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Judgment of countability of English nouns by Korean EFL learners
… the present study was to investigate Korean EFL learners' judgments of countability of English nouns because a correct judgment of noun countability is a key factor for the appropriate use of English indefinite articles and noun phrases. To investigate the subjects' judgments of noun countability …
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L2 acquisition of Spanish telic se constructions
… the Spanish se in transitive constructions by L2 learners of Spanish. Based on a parameterized distinction of the telic features in English and Spanish, this study investigates whether second language (L2) learners are able to reset the aspectual value of the English parameter to that of Spanish …
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Selected sequence signals in Japanese : a semantic analysis
… is problem does not concern beginners so much as advanced learners, because beginners are more engaged in fundamental sentence patterns than in competent discourse.
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Second Language Acquisition and Processing of Chinese bei Passives
… 75 English native speakers with intermediate and advanced Chinese proficiency, and 33 native Mandarin Chinese speakers (serving as a control group) were tested by a series of on-line methods (a self-paced reading task and a reaction-time picture elicited word rearrangement task) and off-line …
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Some complexities in English article use and acquisition
… use is one of the greatest difficulties for learners of English, particularly for those learners whose first languages do not have articles. And unlike many other areas involved in the mastery of the language, articles continue to present a challenge for advanced learners. A significant …
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From concord to lexicon : development and test of a corpus-based lexical tutor
… to validate empirically, and it is conceived for advanced learners while the majority receiving formal language instruction are intermediate. This study describes the adaptation of concordance technology to lexical expansion, the development of a suitable interface (a concordance-based lexical …
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Differentiated Instruction: Principles and Techniques for the Elementary Grades
… average children, the needs of struggling and advanced learners are often not adequately addressed. This review explores the creation of a differentiated classroom by introducing the philosophy behind differentiated instruction and some common approaches to differentiation. Because …
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Processing of non-canonical word orders in an L2
… and German. 32 L1 Norwegian and 32 L1 German advanced learners of Norwegian were tested in two experiments on object topicalization in Norwegian. The results from the online self-paced reading task and the offline agent identification task show that both groups are able to identify the …
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The perception, production and the effect of explicit instruction in L2 English and Spanish vowels in foreign language (FL) adult learners
Adult L2 language learners struggle with the acquisition of L2 phonological categories due to the early attrition of the ability to acquire sounds (Scovel, 1988) and to the pervasive transfer of L1 phonological categories (Best, 1995; Best & Tyler, 2007; Flege, 1995; Kuhl, 1993; Escudero & Boersma, …
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Semantic mapping of the bilingual lexicon : form-to-meaning mapping through computerized testing
… of Arabic, divided into intermediate and advanced ESL groups, served as the participants of the study. They performed a semantic relatedness rating task of sixty high frequency semantically related English word pairs on a 6point scale. While thirty word pairs had the same translation (ST) …
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Going all in or going slow: Preferences for radical versus incremental trajectories of behavior change
… of radical trajectories. In contrast, advanced learners who pursued radical trajectories did set radical intentions and subsequently dedicated 40-50 minutes more practice time throughout the week than those who set incremental intentions. The contribution of this doctoral thesis was to …
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Acquisition of inverse scope by L1-Mandarin L2-English learners
… second language (L2) learning scenarios in which learners have to learn a linguistic phenomenon that exists in the L2 but is absent in the L1, input informing learners that the phenomenon exists in the L2 is crucial for learning. The effects regarding the form in which the input is delivered to …
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Interlanguage refusals : a cross-sectional study of Thai EFL learners' refusals in English
… The data were collected from 36 Thai EFL learners at three proficiency levels: low intermediate, intermediate and advanced, using four open role-plays. The role-plays were designed to incorporate different combinations of sociolinguistic variables of power and distance, as expounded in …
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Native and Non-native Grammars of Chinese Gapping-like Verb Ellipsis
… verb-less constructions by English-speaking learners. The verb-less constructions in question are Chinese gapping-like constructions which bear a surface resemblance to English canonical gapping constructions. Despite the surface similarities shared by Chinese gapping-like constructions and …
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