Abstract This study investigates the impact of a predeparture intervention on developing pragmatic knowledge in abroad context. The included 66 university-level Japanese learners English who participated four-month program Canada. consisted implicit-inductive, explicit-deductive, and explicit-inductive methods instruction speech acts. Pragmatic development was measured by gain scores written di...

Accurate pronunciation is an important component of language ability and the main outward linguistic sign of whether someone is a native speaker of a language or not. An area of particular difficulty for Persian-speaking learners of English, which may cause 'foreign accent' or misunderstanding in speaking, is placement of stress on multi-syllable words. Game-based pronunciation teaching can be ...

This study aims to compare the effectiveness of two invented spelling intervention programs, one with explicit instruction graph-phonetics matches and another based on questioning reflection graph-phonetic correspondences (implicit instructions). Ninety pre-school children, whose spellings use conventional letters unconventionally represent sounds, were allocated three groups, experimental cont...

This investigation examined the mixed effects of visual input enhancement, explicit instruction, pushed output, and corrective feedback on noticing and intake of English conjunctive adverbs. Participants included 83 intermediate EFL students enrolled in a grammar and writing course. They were assigned to a control group (n = 22), explicit instruction + pushed output + explicit corrective feedba...

Abstract Since Gisela Granena’s influential work, LLAMA D v2, a sound recognition subtest of aptitude tests, has been used as measure implicit learning in second language acquisition research. The validity this test, however, is little known and the results studies with instrument have somewhat inconsistent. In study, we tested hypothesis that researchers’ variable test instructions are source ...