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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"focused instruction"”.
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THE EFFECTS OF EXPLICIT FORM-FOCUSED INSTRUCTION ON L2 ORAL PROFICIENCY DEVELOPMENT
… an examination of the effects of explicit form-focused instruction on the English development of Japanese university students during a seven-week intervention. Speaking proficiency development is a continuous challenge for most EFL learners who have limited exposure to the target language …
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Form-focused instruction: A case study of Vietnamese teachers’ beliefs and practices
… and the correspondence between their beliefs and instructional strategies have been internationally published – Woods (1996) being an important exception. Moreover, not a single in-depth study has ever been conducted in the context of Vietnamese state secondary schools, where teachers are …
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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
… models that largely neglect the role of instruction in form. Nowadays, many methodologies attempt to merge these two extremes into more inclusive approaches that combine instruction in form and communicative foci. This study concentrates on two recently defined approaches of form-focused …
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Equitable responsiveness : a multiple case study on preservice teachers’ developing understanding of culturally responsive teaching after engaging with equity literacy focused instruction.
… these and other similar impacts are primarily focused on culture and fail to engage PSTS in confronting the racism, white supremacy, and the power and privilege influences that uphold and sustain oppressive institutions and practices that harm students. This limitation has contributed to the …
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Learning language through collaboration
This study explored the effects of meaning-focused and form-focused instruction on aspects of foreign-language learner’s spoken English, argument production, and attitude towards English use. Four freshman English classes (N=136) from a university in Taiwan participated in this quasi-experimental …
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Implicit and explicit instruction: what type of knowledge is promoted? : An empirical study investigating the effects of processing instruction, metalinguistic rule instruction and textual enhancement
… need a pedagogical intervention such as form-focused instruction in order to gain proficiency in the L2. Form-focused instruction varies in its levels of explicitness as it comprises implicit types of training such as input enhancement and more explicit interventions like processing …
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The effects of learning lexical chunks on the English writing proficiency of Chinese-speaking tertiary students in Australia
… of the study was to investigate the effects of focused instruction on lexical chunks on students’ writing proficiency. This study used both quantitative and qualitative data to investigate the efficacy of lexical pedagogy on writing proficiency. Quantitative data involved questionnaires, pre- …
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Contributions of type of instruction, individual differences in cognitive ability and age to the development of explicit and implicit knowledge of L2 English articles: A study with Russian learners of English
This thesis examines the role of type of instruction, individual differences in aptitude and working memory (WM), and age in the development of explicit and implicit knowledge of second language (L2) articles. One hundred and fifteen Russian learners were randomly assigned to one of three …
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Formative Assessment, Modification of Instruction, and Grade Three Achievement in Predominantly Economically Disadvantaged Hispanic Schools on the South Texas Border
… assessment, data collection and analysis, and focused instruction by comparing the reading achievement, as measured by the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS), of third grade students receiving focused instruction as the result of formative assessment, data collection and analysis, …
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Special Education Teachers' Self-Efficacy Regarding Improving the Reading Comprehension of Students with Working Memory Deficits
… special education teachers providing reading instruction in a rural, west central Georgia school district. The qualitative phase, a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, was completed by 7 of the 23 quantitative phase participants. Quantitative results indicated that participants …
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Navigating Social-emotional Experiences for Readers: Stories of Two High-performing Urban Elementary Teachers
… (Rentner et al., 2006), relying on skills-based instruction (Hollins, 2017; Kohn, 2011), and test-focused instruction (Jennings & Sohn, 2014; Maniates, 2017; Zoch, 2017a) in an attempt to increase test scores. Research shows, however, the social-emotional experience of reading is a powerful …
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The role of metalinguistic terminology in second language teaching and learning
… with metalinguistic terms? What effect does the instruction of metalinguistic terminology have on students’ comprehension of second language grammar? This project focuses on these yet unanswered questions. The study consists of three distinct investigations. First, I conduct a content analysis of …
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Stress in the Beginning Spanish Classroom: An Instructional Study
… learners. The remaining question is whether focused instruction results in improved perception of Spanish stress. The current study addresses this question. Participants were two intact classes of L1 English speakers enrolled in a six-week session of second semester Spanish, as well as a …
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The Relationship Between School Mobility and the Acquisition of Early Literacy Skills
… informing the teaching of reading through code-focused instruction that is developmentally designed (Connor, et al., 2011). The purpose of the literacy investigation is to determine the effects experienced by students whose educational experience is disrupted by frequent enrollment changes …
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A comparative study of the effects of processing instruction and output-based instruction on the acquisition of Italian future tense
… the possible effects of two types of form-focused instruction (henceforth FFI) on the acquisition of a specific feature of the Italian verbal morphology system: namely the future tense, which has hitherto never been researched within this framework. Processing instruction was compared to a …
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Effects of Prosody-Based Instruction and Self-Assessment in L2 Speech Development
… study was to investigate the effects of form-focused instruction (FFI) on prosody with or without self-assessment on the prosodic and global aspects of L2 speech by Japanese EFL learners using a pre-post design. In addition, native English speaking (NS) and non-native English speaking (NNS) …
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The impact of self-reflection and integrated pronunciation instruction on the intelligibility of Generation Z learners of French: A mixed methods study
… thus argued for the re-integration of some form-focused instruction specific to pronunciation in the foreign language classroom and curriculum [by which learners are guided to pay attention to linguistic form in their pronunciation]. Indeed, explicit pronunciation instruction has been shown to …