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Effectiveness of Organised E-mail Exchanges and Online Reading/Writing on College Students’ Literacy Development and their Attitudes towards English: A Study from Saudi Arabia
Being a quasi-experimental study, this study explored the effectiveness of organised email exchanges and online reading utilising webquests on developing reading and writing of college students. The study explored the effectiveness of organised emailing and webquesting on college students’ attitudes towards learning English in a Saudi university.
Collocation and textual cohesion: A comparative corpus study between a genre of Written Sports Reports and a large reference corpus
One of the most problematic areas for foreign language learning is collocation. It is often seen as arbitrary and overwhelming, a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to the attainment of nativelike fluency. The following study takes an approach suggested by recent corpus research by investigating the functional role of collocation for cohesion within a genre-specific corpus of written sports reports (WSR).
Code Mixing Constraints: from Grammatical to Minimalist Framework : A Study in Kashmiri-English Mixed Code
The research in the last half of the twentieth century has advanced the field of language contact and the associated language contact phenomena to a greater extent. The field of language contact has emerged as an important area of research not only in the domain of historical and sociolinguistics but also in other fields like phonology, morphology and syntax.
Does the Hong Kong Native English Scheme have an Effect on Learner’s Intelligibility of ‘Standard Accents?
The present study investigates the effect of the Hong Kong Native English Teacher Scheme on learner’s intelligibility of ‘Standard’ accents. 120 participants from six classes studying for Associate Degrees were given a language learning history questionnaire and an intelligibility test where they were required to listen to and orthographically transcribe speakers from America, England, Hong Kong and Australia.
Article Errors in the English Writing of Advanced L1 Arabic Learners: The Role of Transfer
The problems encountered by English learners whose mother tongue does not have an article system have been researched extensively. The problems encountered by learners whose mother tongue does have an article system, such as Arabic, have been studied less. This article describes an enquiry into article system errors in a corpus of English writing by tertiary-level L1 Arabic speakers.
Error Correction of L2 Students’ Texts – Theory, Evidence and Pedagogy
In the last ten years there has been a revival of support for error correction of second language students’ written texts underpinned by disillusionment with the notion that comprehensible input alone is sufficient for acquisition of all aspects of a second language. Empirical studies in comprehensive and focused correction have aided this revival and demonstrated that error correction can produce significant benefits.
Changing Associations: The Effect of Direct Vocabulary Instruction on the Word Associations of Japanese College Students
Word association tests (WATs) are generally used in second language (L2)vocabulary acquisition research studies to investigate the connections L2 learners hold in their developing mental lexicons.
The problem with of the studies to date is that the associations produced are often “extremely boring and predicableâ€(Meara, 1983, p. 29), because learners are usually only tested once with high frequency prompt words (PWs). This study examines the evolving mental connections of twenty Japanese college students through the multiple administration of a thirtyâ€item WAT over a threeâ€month period.
Creating a Corpus-Based Daily Life Vocabulary for TEYL
The purpose of this study has been to create a list of children’s everyday vocabulary in English which will provide a foundation for daily life vocabulary for Japanese elementary school students and which will complement and augment existing English vocabulary currently taught in Japanese junior and senior high schools.
E-learning Constructive Role Plays for EFL Learners in China’s Tertiary Education
Recently, speaking has played an increasingly important role in second/foreign language settings. However, in many Chinese universities, EFL students rarely communicate in English with other people effectively. The existing behavioristic role plays on New Horizon College English (NHCE) e-learning do not function successfully in supplementing EFL speaking classes.
Evaluating the L1 Use of Adult Intermediate Korean English Language Learners During Collaborative Oral Tasks
The debate surrounding the use of the first language in the English classroom continues to be a contentious issue. Recent research has noted that the first language does have a part to play in the acquisition process of the second language. In relation to an adult intermediate South Korean EFL context, this study explores how students within this context use their first language as a learning tool, to help them produce the second language, during collaboration on oral pair-work tasks.
