These findings offer new insights into the role of pre-tasks in the L2 writing process, especially among first-year learners, a population in need of further study (Adams, Amani, Newton, & Alwi, 2014; Manchón & de Haan, 2008; Nitta & Baba, 2014; O'Brien, 2004).
Harman (2013) reported that the genre-based teaching of narrative texts to L2 fifth-year learners in an elementary school developed their lexical cohesion.
Grounded in scholarship on task-based language learning (Ellis, 2003; Robinson & Gilabert, 2007; Skehan & Foster, 2001; Skehan, 2003) and second language (L2) writing (Byrnes & Manchón, 2014; Ojima, 2006), this quasi-experimental study examines the performance of 26 first-year learners of German on three written summary tasks with different levels of complexity.
Data were obtained from 100 first- and second-year undergraduate Japanese learners of English enrolled at a private university in Tokyo, taking both the TEAP and the TOEFL iBT tests.
We conducted an exploratory study of Septris at Stanford School of Medicine in June and July 2012 with pregraduate learners (61 second-year medical students transitioning to third-year clerkships) and 95 postgraduate learners (46 internal medicine interns; 12 emergency medicine interns; 37 surgery residents).
At the time of this study, peer learners were second-year medical students in the EPC programme who had volunteered to participate after a short presentation to their class.
In this case, transferability from a first learner to a second learner is defined as the performance of the second learner with learning from the first learner minus the performance of the second learner without learning from the first learner.
The world's most celebrated hyperpolyglot relied on the same tools given to first-year language-learners today.
Why should we hire someone who is a second language learner?
Rea's students are predominately Latino, with 87% English as a second-language learners, said Principal Anna Corral.
The needs of English as a Second Language Learners are very different than the needs of native language learners.
