Language learning and acquisition

In this paper, the author tries to identify the reasons behind those challenges and gives some suggestions to facilitate the instruction giving of English teachers and the language acquisition of English learners.

3p vijaychest 16-05-2024 2 1   Download

In the vulnerable and unstable contexts that characterize populations in mobility between countries, especially immigrants and refugees, the second language learning has assumed new traits of difficulty. To help the new generation of learners, mainly with origin in forced immigration, the mobile-assisted learning helps motivation for language learning and reduces anxiety related to language acquisition.

10p viarnault 25-04-2024 2 1   Download

This article examines the impact of social media on the learning of English language skills among students at the University of Finance-Marketing. It investigates the available English learning opportunities through social media and evaluates their effectiveness. Additionally, the challenges faced by students when learning English using social media are explored.

3p visergey 02-04-2024 2 0   Download

Mastering vocabulary is one of the most critical factors that help learners improve their language proficiency. However, this also puts pressure on learners, especially language learners. This research was carried out to investigate common vocabulary strategies students use for learning the words for the first time and methods for reinforcing the learned ones. In addition, the author tried to identify drawbacks that students deal with in vocabulary acquisition.

11p vilarry 01-04-2024 1 1   Download

Part 2 book "Handbook of psychology - Vol 4: Experimental psychology" includes content: Motor control, conditioning and learning, animal memory and cognition, sensory and working memory, semantic memory and priming, episodic and autobiographical memory, procedural memory and skill acquisition, language comprehension and production, reading, text comprehension and discourse processing, concepts and categorization, reasoning and problem solving, psychological experimentation addressing practical concerns.

396p muasambanhan08 23-02-2024 1 1   Download

Reading comprehension is considered one of the four main skills when learning a foreign language. It seems to be a burden to overcome if learners do not regularly practice. Among obstacles they encounter are a lack of effective reading strategies and insufficient new cultural words of all fields.

3p vibego 02-02-2024 3 3   Download

The paper "The effects of video games on English language teaching and learning (ELT)" aims to identify the benefits and downsides of video games in general and in ELT classrooms in particular. Findings from various research articles reveal that moderation is the key to success in incorporating the English language knowledge and skills in educational video games, making them a powerful tool to enhance the quality of language acquisition in the modern world today.

3p tahoaiman 02-01-2024 4 2   Download

The study "The difficulties encountered by ESL/EFL students in listening comprehension" aims to highlight a number of main listening difficulties encountered by ESL/ EFL students in listening comprehension. The results showed that students faced these difficulties during the three stages of listening: perception, parsing, and utilization.

6p tahoaiman 02-01-2024 6 2   Download

There are a number of elements contributing to the success of language learning, one of which is undoubtedly motivation. This research aims to raise the awareness of language teachers about the role of motivation in language learning and suggest some methods to apply in ESL class.

3p vigeorge 06-12-2023 6 3   Download

Ebook "Introducing second language acquisition (Second edition)" Using non-technical language, it explains how a second language is acquired; what the learner of a second language needs to know; and why some learners are more successful than others. This new edition of Muriel Saville-Troike's bestselling textbook introduces in a step-by-step fashion a range of fundamental concepts, such as SLA in adults and children, in formal and informal learning contexts and in diverse socio-cultural settings.

230p tichhythan 17-08-2023 4 3   Download

This paper reviews several articles that demonstrate the effectiveness of social media in the acquisition of foreign language vocabulary before some recommendations can be made for ESL students’ vocabulary enrichment.

3p vilucius 15-03-2023 9 6   Download

Ebook Teaching with educational technology in the 21st century: the case of the Asia Pacific region - Part 2 presents the following content: Chapter VII Second Language Acquisition and Online Learning; Chapter VIII Academic Online Resources and Global Implications; Chapter IX An E-Learning Journey: Opportunities and Challenges for the 21st Century References; Appendix A: Web Sites on Guam and Micronesia; Appendix B The Survey Instrument: Multicultural Education; Appendix C The Survey Instrument: Multicultural Education; Appendix D Electronic Journals in Educatio;….

175p runthenight05 30-01-2023 7 2   Download

Corrective feedback is of critical role in the field of second language acquisition. This article examines the effects of corrective feedback recasts and elicitations on immediate repair in dyadic conversation of students who speak English as a second language.

5p vispyker 16-11-2022 8 3   Download

In the literature, the effectiveness of learner autonomy in the English language education has been examined and highly appreciated by many researchers and educators. Therefore, this paper aims to investigate the role of learner autonomy in English language teaching and learning, accordingly offering teachers some pedagogical implications in order to help learners in their foreign language acquisition process.

3p vipriyankagandhi 27-07-2022 9 5   Download

Listening is considered to be a crucial language skill in the language acquisition process, yet it has been relegated for a long time to a marginal place in the second language teaching curriculums. Thanks to the advent of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and the need of acquiring the language proficiency, the learning and teaching of listening started to attract more attention in the nature of listening and its role in English Language Teaching issues.

16p vimarillynhewson 17-05-2022 25 4   Download

This paper concludes that there is no one solid linguistic theory which can provide the ultimate explanation of L1 acquisition and L2 learning as there are many interrelated factors that influence the success of language acquisition or language learning.

7p guernsey 28-12-2021 14 0   Download

In recent years teachers can approach a lot of teaching methods. Choosing an appropriate method will help a teacher meet the need of his learners. Through comparing and contrasting these theories, we can understand more about language acquistion as well as find out the contributions and limitations of these methods to language teaching.

8p vizhangyiming 14-12-2021 22 4   Download

The ability to imitate the vocalizations of other organisms, a trait known as vocal learning, is shared by only a few organisms, including humans, where it subserves the acquisition of speech and language, and 3 groups of birds. In songbirds, vocal learning requires the coordinated activity of a set of specialized brain nuclei referred to as the song control system. Recent efforts have revealed some of the genes that are expressed in these vocal nuclei, however a thorough characterization of the transcriptional specializations of this system is still missing.

27p vibeauty 23-10-2021 10 1   Download

The major findings of this research show the challenges Vietnamese students face in academic writing due to not only the interference of L1 to L2 in the process of second language acquisition, but also the current academic writing instructions (e.g. critique essays, argumentative writing). Some pedagogical implications for both teachers and students to improve their writing teaching and learning are proposed.

9p pulpfiction 16-09-2021 18 1   Download

This article aims to provide a digest of previous illuminating research that addresses incidental vocabulary acquisition over the past decades and a review of some crucial aspects related to vocabulary retention in second language acquisition.

6p wangxinling 23-07-2021 16 0   Download