Taiwanese EFL Learners’ English Relative Clauses Learning

Learning of relative clauses by L3 learners of English

In surveys of third language acquisition (TLA) research, mixed results demonstrate that there is no consensus among researchers regarding the advantages and/or disadvantages of bilinguality on  TLA.  The  main  concern  of  the  present  study  was,  thus,  to  probe  the  probable  differences between  Persian  monolingual  and  Azeri-Persian  bilingual  learners  of  English  regarding  their...

Learning Relative Clauses by Iranian EFL Learners: Task-Based Activities Versus Teacher-Focused Activities

Task-Based Approach (TBA) has gained its popularity in the field of language pedagogy since the last decade of the 20th century and significant scholars have joined the discussion to increase the amount of analytical studies on this issue. This study attempts to investigate the topic of Task-based activities and learning relative clauses by Persian EFL learners. To carry out this study, first, ...

Subject/Object Asymmetry in the Comprehension of English Relative Clauses by Japanese Learners of English

Perception and Production of English Front Vowels by Taiwanese EFL Learners

The study aimed to compare the perception and production of English front vowel pairs: /i/-/ɪ / and /ɛ /-/æ/ and to identify their perception-production link by Taiwanese EFL learners through minimal-pair tests. Twenty Grade 6 elementary school students in Taiwan were randomly selected to be engaged in two tests with 4 front vowels (/i/, /ɪ /, /ɛ /, /æ/) embedded in ten monosyllabic words respe...

Training Taiwanese EFL Learners to Perceive English Lexical Stress Contrast: A Pilot Study

This study investigates the effect of perceptual training on the learning of non-native lexical stress contrast. Nineteen participants who speak Mandarin or Taiwanese as their native language and have acquired English as a foreign language for an average of 7.2 years attended a perceptual training course to learn to identify English disyllabic nouns and verbs which differ only in the location o...