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"As the writer is going to teach English to the Thai students who do not speak a word of English, it is essential for her to be intimately acquainted with the development of reading vocabulary in order to teach Thai students to read...
The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of ARCS-based motivational email messages (MVEMs) on student participation in a free online English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) course. The course consisted of 10...
It is beneficial for Chinese English-learners to improve their communicative competence through being taught in a communicative-based class (especially with the use of task-based language teaching, Nuevo, 2006). However, previous studies...
Impact of Explicit Phonological Awareness Instruction on Spelling Knowledge, Orthographic Processing Skills, and Reading Speed and Accuracy of Adult Arab ESL Learners
ABSTRACT This quantitative study investigated potential effects of providing explicit phonological instruction on international students' spelling knowledge, orthographic processing skills, and reading speed and comprehension. In...
Exploring the Effectiveness of Collaborative Assessment Preparation with Immediate Feedback in an Intensive Adult English as a Second Language Classroom
Learning to speak a foreign language can be a difficult and time-consuming endeavor, involving verbal exchanges in a target language. It is a process that includes learning about, understanding, and to some extent identifying with...
Contributing Factors of Second Language Pronunciation Goals: The Influence of Second Language Testing, Speaking Goals, and Speaking Beliefs of English Language Learners at Intensive English Programs
Before entering American university graduate programs, many international students must attend Intensive English Programs (IEPs) to improve their English proficiency (Redden, 2018). Their English proficiency is tested via the Test of...
This dissertation analyzes written language samples from fifth grade students with limited English proficiency from Spanish home language backgrounds. Written language sample holistic quality scores and Florida Assessments for...
This study centers on maintaining motivation in second language learning (SLL), by exploring Directed Motivational Currents (DMCs), a recently conceptualized phenomenon theorized by Professor Dornyei and his colleagues (Dornyei, Muir, ...
Children who are native Spanish-speaking Language Minority Youth (LMY) comprise the fastest growing population of students in the United States. In addition, these children lag significantly behind their non-LMY peers in academic...
This study examines Spanish gender assignment among mixed bilingual children with 121 English Language Learners and 17 Spanish Language Leaners from North and South Florida through the results of a receptive gender marking task. Two...
This dissertation aimed to deepen knowledge and understanding of the impact of individual differences on Second Language (L2) learning and development. It investigated how a learner's chronic regulatory focus (RF, promotion vs....
Korean English Teachers' Perceptions about Teaching and Assessing Multimodal Composition: A New Direction for Writing Instruction and Assessment in the 21st Century
Literacy in the 21st century is not confined to communication based on reading and writing only print texts. New literacies include multimedia projects and multimodal texts, which include visual, audio, and technological elements to...
Spelling a complex English word is more difficult than reading it, suggesting that spelling requires a higher quality orthographic representation and a greater degree of word knowledge compared to reading. In the absence of a high...
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