the present study was an attempt to investigate the acquisition of negationproperties by persian monolingual and kurdish-persian bilingual learners of englishacross different levels of language proficiency and within a generative framework.generative models are generally concerned with issues such as universal grammar(ug), language transfer, and morphological variability in nonprimary languaged...

this study was an attempt to find out to what extent efl learners at different levels of language proficiency experience inner speech as mental rehearsal and to identify some of the characteristics and functions of their inner speech. for this purpose, one hundred seventy-four iranian female students majoring in english translation at islamic azad university, tehran central branch, took part in...

Oral assessment in language learning has received increasing attention among second language acquisition (SLA) researchers. This growing interest is likely a product of the increased interpretability of test scores and potential validity of the scores when linked to real-world criteria (Bonk & Ockey, 2003). However, assessing speaking skill can be more challenging than assessing other skills be...

purpose: the present study seeks to explore the effects of general language proficiency, text readability, and medical knowledge on comprehending medical texts. material & method: 63 medical students in the second year of their study were randomly selected from the english language classes. they answered 100 multiple-choice questions on grammar and vocabulary to establish the level of language ...

This article analyzes the situation of Spanishspeaking immigrants in United States, studying implications their low level English incidence labor, social and integration conditions within communities, analysis is framed presentation some realities suffered by this type settlers for not having command language. As an alternative, it proposed to use YouTube videos improve pronunciation, intonatio...

Corpus linguistic analysis has been increasingly applied to the studies of variation in surface linguistic features of second language writing. Previous research found that nonnative English speaking (NNS) writers at higher levels of proficiency produced larger quantity (measured by the number of words) and greater quality (measured by the number of varieties of lexical items used in the texts)...

This study attempted to investigate the relationship among learning strategy, autonomy and language proficiency of Chinese university EFL students. To achieve this objective, purposive sampling and cluster sampling methods were used to select 422 non-English major students as participants in three universities, Henan province, China. Oxford’s (1990) Strategy Inventory for Language Learning (SIL...

Lexical sophistication is an important component of writing proficiency. New lexical indices related to range, n-gram frequency, psycholinguistic word information, academic language, polysemy, and hypernymy have yielded new insights into the construct of lexical sophistication and its relationship with second language (L2) acquisition and writing. For example, recent studies have suggested that...