L2 learners
Lexical Access in Production of Idioms by Proficient L2 Learners
... Iranian L2 learners, their ages ranged from 25 to 43 years (only three participants were above 40 years ...by L2 learners (Irujo 1986), only the proficient eFL learners were considered ...
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The impact of translation on L2 learners’ metalinguistic competence
... that learners maximize their chances of fluency and accuracy in an L2 and avoid interference from their L1 by thinking in the ...compensate L2 learners’ weaknesses during learning an ...
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Cue Competition between Animacy and Word Order: Acquisition of Chinese Notional Passives by L2 Learners
... languages. L2 learners prefer to rely on their L1 settings of cue strength at the beginning of language learning and gradually shift to L2 settings with increasing L2 proficiency (Bates & ...
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Accounting for L2 learners’ errors in word stress placement
... for L2 learners, especially Indonesian learners since their L1 does not recognize such stress ...for L2 learners and to investigate the phonological factors which account for these ...
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The Acquisition of Definiteness Feature by Persian L2 Learners of English
... Persian learners of English should be able to acquire the English definiteness feature lacking in their ...fifty L2 learners at intermediate and advanced levels were ...
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Epistemic Modal Markers in L2 Learners’ Persuasive Letters
... EFL learners’ communication be it written or ...that L2 learners need to be aware of the influential pragmatic functions that modal markers have in written discourses so as not to risk their own ...
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Processing tense/aspect-agreement violations on-line in the second language : a self-paced reading study with French and German L2 learners of English
... French learners performed differently from the English native speakers with the past simple items: it is plausible to assume that a learner may need more and naturalistic exposure in the L2 environment to ...
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Analysing l2 learners' interactions in group discussions
... examine L2 learners’ oral interactions in group discussions in answer to two research questions, namely: (1) Are there differences in the performance of the High, Intermediate and Mixed Ability groups when ...
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The Role of Noticing in L2 Learners’ Production of Intonation Patterns
... interaction and then attend to the use of intonation patterns (or contours) to signal different imports and attitudes in communication. First, some metalinguistic explanations were provided focusing on the general ...
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A Toolkit to Assist L2 Learners Become Independent Writers
... Teachers can comment on repeated errors of the same type by clicking a ‘Copy Comment’ button, although usually it is not necessary (nor advisable) to highlight every error. Current feedback peda- gogy suggests that, ...
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Group Dynamic Assessment of L2 Learners' Writing Abilities
... knowledgeable learners reinforced collective scaffolding (Donato, 1994) and legitimate peripheral participation (McCafferty et ...the learners in the course of which the novice and more expert ...
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The acquisition of discourse-pragmatic rules for null and overt first-person subjects by Greek learners of Turkish
... Greek L2 learners of ...Greek L2 learners of Turkish are examined and their use of null and overt subjects are compared in light of these ...
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Factors affecting the use of the self-regulated L2 learning strategies in Turkish FLE context
... self-regulated L2 learning strategy use, findings showed that learners, who have lived in bigger districts or cities before attending university, performed cognitive strategies more than other ...
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The Effect of Recast on Iranian EFL Learners’ Writing Achievement
... for L2 learners to ...complex; L2 writers have to pay attention to higher level skills of planning and organizing as well as lower level skills of spelling, punctuation, word choice, and so ...EFL ...
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A Review Study of Interlanguage Theory
... of L2 learners' conscious attempts to have control of their learning (Sercombe, ...the L2 learner as an active participant because he/she has the ability to form rules from the data he/she might ...
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Short and long-term vocabulary learning and retention through multimedia glossing: A mixed methods research
... that learners with low visual and verbal proficiencies performed poorly on vocabulary tests when they received visual annotations (pictures & ...Thus, learners with less language proficiency may ...
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The Acquisition of L2 Fricatives in Thai Learners’ Interlanguage
... the L2 pronunciation of fricative /z/ among Japanese ...that L2 fricatives in formal tasks such as minimal pairs and word list reading are more native-like than those in less formal ones such as dialogue ...
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Practising online with your peers:The role of text chat for second language development
... language learners, to make meaningful use of their second language (Gonzalez-Lloret and Ortega 2014; Adams et ...an L2 can be regarded as L2 ...the L2 as a context for practice. After ...
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English language development in P R China : a study of the impact of some learner internal and learner external factors
... 3.3 Individual characteristics of L2 learners i Research related to the role of motivation and attitude in L2 learning ii Learning strategies of L2 learners iii Communication strategies [r] ...
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Personality Development by means of Investment in L2 and its impact on EFL Proficiency: A survey of Iranian MA EFL students
... on L2 learning also support the idea that language learning is concomitant with cultural acquisition (Norton, ...Therefore, L2 learning brings about an opportunity for L2 learners to enrich ...
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