BackBrowsing by Author "Azkarai, Agurtzane"
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Does gender influence task performance in EFL? Interactive tasks and language related episodes
; García Mayo, María del Pilar
(Brill Rodopi, 2012-01-01)
There are differences in the way males and females use language (Aries, 1976; Ross-Feldman, 2005, 2007). However, the role that gender plays in second language acquisition (SLA) does not seem to have been studied in depth. ... -
EFL task-based interaction: Does task modality impact on language-related episodes?
García Mayo, María del Pilar; (John Benjamins, 2016-03-10)
Research on L2 interaction has shown that task modality (written vs. oral) influences language learning opportunities. However, most research has been carried out in ESL settings and few studies have investigated task ... -
Exploring young EFL learners’ motivation: Individual versus pair work on dictogloss tasks
Kopinska, Marta; (Adam Mickiewicz University (Kalisz, Poland), 2020-09)
Motivation has been widely considered one of the most influential variables in the field of second language learning. Motivation may vary throughout the years, even within the duration of a single language class, and this ... -
L1 use in EFL task-based interaction: a matter of gender?
(De Gruyter, 2015-07-11)This study analyzes the impact of gender on first language (L1) use and the functions it served during English as foreign language (EFL) task-based interaction. Participants were all Spanish EFL learners who worked in ... -
Males and females in EFL task-based interaction: does gender have an impact on LREs?
(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Vigo, 2015)This study analyzes the impact of gender on the language learning opportunities available to Spanish EFL learners during task-based interaction. These learners worked in mixed and matched gender dyads on four collaborative ... -
Negotiation of Meaning Strategies in Child EFL Mainstream and CLIL Settings
(Wiley, 2016)Research on child English as a second language (ESL) learners has shown the benefits of task-based interaction for the use of different negotiation of meaning (NoM) strategies, which have been claimed to lead to second ... -
Task-modality and L1 use in EFL oral interaction
; García Mayo, María del Pilar (Sage, 2014-07-21)
[EN] This study examines whether task-modality (speaking vs. speaking+writing) influences first language (L1) use in task-based English as a foreign language (EFL) learner–learner interaction. Research on the topic has ... -
Teaching EFL to young learners
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2018)Worldwide there are more and more people from non-English speaking background countries wishing to learn English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This chapter begins by exploring some of the differences between EFL settings ...