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50 Years of ERIC
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Instructional Effects of Positive and Negative Evidence on Prepositional/Phrasal Verbs.
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Kubota, Mikio – IRLT (Institute for Research in Language Teaching) Bulletin, 1997
An experiment in Japan investigated the kind of input that is effective in enabling college-level students of English as a Second Language to formulate grammar, specifically prepositional and phrasal verbs. A grammaticality judgment test and a translation test were given to 131 Japanese university students, who were divided into three treatment…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Teachability of Conversational Implicature to Japanese EFL Learners.
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Kubota, Mikio – IRLT (Institute for Research in Language Teaching) Bulletin, 1995
As teaching pragmatic competence is considered to be one of the neglected aspects in English language teaching in Japan, this paper investigates the teaching of conversational English implicature of 126 Japanese English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) learners. University student participants were divided into three groups and given a multiple choice…
Descriptors: College Students, Consciousness Raising, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)