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Paradowski, Michal B.; Cierpich-Koziel, Agnieszka; Chen, Chih-Chun; Ochab, Jeremi K. – Modern Language Journal, 2022
This data-driven study framed in the interactionist approach investigates the influence of social graph topology and peer interaction dynamics among foreign exchange students enrolled in an intensive German language course on second language acquisition (SLA) outcomes. Applying the algorithms and metrics of computational social network analysis…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Social Networks, Network Analysis, German
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Timpe-Laughlin, Veronika; Sydorenko, Tetyana; Daurio, Phoebe – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
Often, second/foreign (L2) language learners receive little opportunity to interact orally in the target language. Interactive, conversation-based spoken dialog systems (SDSs) that use automated speech recognition and natural language processing have the potential to address this need by engaging learners in meaningful, goal-oriented speaking…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Oral Language, Dialogs (Language)
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Mostafa, Tamanna; Kim, YouJin – Language Awareness, 2021
The study investigates to what extent English as a second language (ESL) learners develop explicit and automatised explicit knowledge of two target-forms (third person singular 's' and future conditional if-clause) after input and output based instruction and whether learning effects differ depending on the target forms. The study follows a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Linguistic Input, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Hall, Joan Kelly; Wang, Tianfang; Khor, Su Yin – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
A great deal of research undertaken in child language development, neurolinguistics and various branches of functional and cognitive linguistics has shown that a main source of language development is the spoken input to which learners are exposed. Despite the fact that for most adult L2 learners, the greatest exposure to the L2 is the input they…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Questioning Techniques, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abdala, Ayman Hamad Elneil Hamdan; Elnadeef, Elsadig Ali Elsadig – Online Submission, 2019
This study investigates English language anxiety and stress among Saudi students in the First Year in College of Sciences and Arts in Dharan Aljanoub who study an English intensive course. It demonstrates the major causes of language anxiety and stress in English class. The study is based on descriptive analytical approach. The researchers used a…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Anxiety, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Bahadorani, Homeira – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Language instructors play a decisive role in adult language learners' learning and retention of vocabulary through planning, selection, and teaching of vocabulary and strategies. However, some professional language schools lack extensive teacher-training programs that prepare instructors with the skills required to select and teach vocabulary,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Guidelines