Using Corpora to Investigate Chinese University EFL Learners

2017 ◽  
pp. 245-259
Author(s):  
Bin Zou ◽  
Hayo Reinders
Keyword(s):  
Efl Learners ◽  
Chinese University

Mobile-assisted vocabulary learning: Investigating receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge of Chinese EFL learners

ReCALL ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Christoph A. Hafner
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Knowledge ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Word Knowledge ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Learning Group ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
L2 Vocabulary

Abstract Considerable research has been conducted on the advancement of mobile technologies to facilitate vocabulary learning and acquisition in a second language (L2). However, whether mobile platforms lead to a comprehensive mastery of both receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge has seldom been addressed in previous literature. This study investigated English vocabulary learning from engagement with mobile-based word cards and paper word cards in the context of the Chinese university classroom. A total of 85 undergraduate students were recruited to take part in the study. The students were divided into two groups, a mobile learning group and a paper-based learning group, and tested on two word knowledge components: receptive knowledge of the form–meaning connection and productive knowledge of collocations. Both the digital and non-digital word cards enhanced L2 vocabulary learning, and the results showed that the mobile application (app) promoted greater gains than physical word cards.

scholarly journals Compensatory strategies adopted by Chinese EFL learners in virtual exchange with native speakers

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-71
Author(s):  
Ruiling Feng ◽  
Sheida Shirvani
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Oral Communication ◽  
Compensatory Strategies ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Communication Breakdown ◽  
L2 Processing ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Language Knowledge ◽  
Different Levels

Compensatory strategies play an important role in second language (L2) processing because of limited language knowledge and ensuing anxiety and could help assure understanding and void communication breakdown. Previous studies about compensatory strategies largely adopt laboratory settings and neglect the strategies in authentic oral communication. Accordingly, the present study investigated compensatory strategies used by Chinese university students in online videoconferences with their US peers during a five-week virtual exchange project. We interviewed 27 Chinese students twice, once after the first-week videoconference, the other after the last-week videoconference. The English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners in this study could adopt compensatory strategies of different levels. Their strategy use, however, was not flexible enough as several types of strategies were repeatedly used, while other types were rarely implemented. The virtual exchange could help the EFL learners employ compensatory strategies more often, of higher levels, and with increased immediacy. The results can help to establish more targeted English teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Translanguaging in a Chinese university CLIL classroom: Teacher strategies and student attitudes

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-289
Author(s):  
Xiaozhou (Emily) Zhou ◽  
Steve Mann
Keyword(s):  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Classroom Teacher ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Approach To Teaching ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Impact

Pedagogical translanguaging has been extensively researched over the past decade. Yet, little is known about the attitudes of students towards this practice. Students constitute an integral part of classroom interactions and their learning process is significantly affected by teachers’ classroom discourse. This action research (AR) study, situated in a Chinese university Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) reading classroom and aided by lesson recordings and two sets of questionnaires, explores the translanguaging strategies employed by the teacher as well as the students’ attitudes to such strategies. Through incorporating feedback collected from students regarding the teacher’s modifications of language use, the study has demonstrated how the teacher mobilizes her full linguistic resources, in the form of translanguaging, to achieve pedagogical outcomes, which eventually leads to the establishment of a mutually beneficial classroom ecology. The study also indicates that advanced EFL learners, highly motivated to improve language proficiency and acquire subject content unanimously reject the traditional monolingual approach to teaching. The findings call for further research into the impact of pedagogical translanguaging on students’ learning process in multilingual classrooms.

scholarly journals The Analysis of Argument-Counterargument Structure in Chinese EFL Learners’ Argumentative Writing

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fangyuan Du
Keyword(s):  
Argument Structure ◽  
Claim Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Writing Evaluation ◽  
Automated Writing Evaluation ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Argumentative Essays ◽  
Essay Quality

This study aims to analyze argument-counterargument structure of English argumentative essays written by Chinese EFL university students, based on the adapted Toulmin’s (2003) model of the argument structure constituting four elements (i.e. claim, data, counterargument and rebuttal). It also measures whether there is a correlation between the use of counterargument structure and the participants’ overall essay quality assessed by an online AWE (Automated Writing Evaluation) program. Three hundred and ninety students with various majors in a Chinese university submitted their argumentative essays in English online. The results demonstrated that half of the participants developed a one-sided model of argumentation while the other half of them used argument-counterargument structure in their essays. The participants’ use of counterarguments affected the overall quality of their essays. Pedagogical implications of these findings are also discussed.

scholarly journals Effects of web-based metacognitive listening on Chinese university EFL learners' listening comprehension and metacognitive awareness

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Pei ◽  
Jitpanat Suwanthep
Keyword(s):  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Metacognitive Awareness ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Metacognitive Development ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
The Web

The present study examined the effects of web-based metacognitive listening practice on L2 learners’ listening comprehension over 14 weeks. Participants (N  = 67) came from two intact classes of intermediate EFL university learners in China. The experimental group was involved in the web-based metacognitive listening practice built on the metacognitive listening principles. The control group undertook a traditional web-based listening practice with the same listening materials texts, yet without training on their metacognitive awareness. TOEFL tests and MALQ were used to track the development of listening achievements and metacognitive awareness. ANCOVA was employed to detect the differences between the two groups regarding listening achievements and metacognitive development. The results show that the experimental group made significantly greater gains than the control group in listening achievements. However, the development of metacognition remained inconclusive. The study concludes that metacognitive listening practice under web-based environment could outperform the traditional web-based listening practice in improving listening achievements among Chinese intermediate EFL learners. Besides, some recommendations for further study are discussed.

scholarly journals Intertextualities in English Writing of EFL Learners in the Context of Chinese University

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
Yuanyan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
English Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Chinese University

When the writing subject is communicating with the addressee, their texts simultaneously communicate with the present and the past texts. The author carries out an empirical study to find out issues to be addressed in the context of Chinese university in EFL learners’ English writing with respect to intertextuality. The study examines the manifestations of three types of intertextualities---material intertextuality, generic intertextuality and cultural intertextuality and finds out that there are obvious material intertextualities between students’ individualized texts and exterior texts. Certain generic intertextualities manifesting in the repetition of specific structures are deficient. And in terms of cultural intertextuality, it is found that the exterior texts have exerted an obvious cultural intertextual influence on activating pertinent schema texts of participants, promoting the comprehension of the writing theme as well as further affecting the completions of their writings.

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