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Metaphoric Competence and the Acquisition of Figurative Vocabulary in Foreign Language Learning
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2013)
Successful vocabulary teaching in the English as a foreign lan¬guage classroom has to surmount many obstacles, such as the decrease in the rate of acquisition of new words by EFL students once a high level of proficiency ...
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The Second Language Lexicon
(2013)
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Requesting in English as a Lingua Franca: Proficiency Effects in Stay Abroad
(2013)
This article reports on an empirical study designed to assess pragmatic awareness and production of 104 nonnative speakers of English of two different proficiency levels (intermediate and advanced). The paper first ...
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Effects of Input Enhancement and Visual Prompts in Children’s L2 Acquisition of Spanish Verbal Morphology
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2013)
In the pedagogical arena of second language (L2) acquisition, much of the input enhancement research (Sharwood Smith, 1993) has focused on adult L2 acquisition. However, the impact of this pedagogi¬cal technique in child ...