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Second language acquisition

Title: The distinctive case of the Samoan learner of English : metacognition, learning style and culture

Author: Fox, Julian
Subject:  Cognitive styles|Samoa
 English language |Study and teaching|Samoa
 Second language acquisition
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.43, vol.22, no.2, 2000
Collation: p. 56-80 ;

Abstract: Julian Fox, originally from Australia, has been teaching English at the Pacific Regional Seminary and at Corpus Christi Teachers’ College in Suva for the past few years. He has completed three of the four required courses for the Postgraduate Diploma in Linguistics and expects to graduate in December 2001. In The distinctive case of the Samoan learner of English: metacognition, learning style and culture, Father Fox combines his knowledge of Samoan students and the Samoan language with his interest in the role of culture in second language acquisition.

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Title: Dictionary use as a way of learning vocabulary in SLA : a preliminary study

Author: Songhao, Liu
Subject:  English language|Dictionaries
 Second language acquisition
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.36, vol.19, no.1, 1997
Collation: p. 82-99 ;

Abstract: Liu Songhao reports on a study which counteracts a view held by some second language acquisition scholars that guessing is a better strategy for acquiring vocabulary than is referring to a dictionary. Songhao’s research indicated that both strategies can be helpful and may also be complementary.

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Title: Precourse needs analysis for a female Rotuman learning a domestic register of Fiji Hindi

Author: Dean, Farzana
Subject:  Hindi language|Study and teaching|Fiji
 Second language acquisition
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.43, vol.22, no.2, 2000
Collation: p. 35-55 ;

Abstract: Farzana Dean, a linguistics major and a keen supporter of her mother-tongue, Fiji Hindi, sketches out a Precourse needs analysis for a female Rotuman learning a domestic register of Fiji Hindi, a paper she wrote for an applied linguistics course. She describes the rudiments of Fiji Hindi a Rotuman woman marrying into a Muslim Indo-Fijian family would need in order to communicate with her in-laws at home. Ms Dean, the winner of the Gold Medal in Linguistics and valedictorian for the class of 2000, is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in Linguistics at the University of Auckland.

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Title: Listening makes my brain hurt: issues of listening for students who are speakers of languages other than English

Author: Green, Gillian
Subject:  Second language acquisition
 English language|Study and teaching
 Listening|Study and teaching
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies vol.26, no.2, 2004
Collation: 57-71;

Abstract: Though much can be done to assist students acquire good listening practices, the important role of listening in many educational environments demands that we as teachers make some gestures towards lessening the huge burden that listening so frequently places on learners. This paper examined the issues one language teacher learned by being a language learner.

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Title: What learning strategies do ESL learners in Fiji use? : an exploratory study

Author: Mangubhai, Francis, Lal, Pushpa
Subject:  English language|Study and teaching|Fiji
 Second language acquisition
Volume: Directions: Journal of Educational Studies no.42, vol.22, no.1, 2000
Collation: p. 53-69 ;

Abstract: This paper is about learning strategies. An exploratory study was undertaken to investigate the use of strategies in learning English by students at three levels of formal schooling. The results suggest that there is a need for teachers to consciously seek ways of improving their students’ strategy use so that they can be more efficient learners.

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