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Reza Norouzian; Zhouhan Jin; Stuart Webb – Modern Language Journal, 2025
Meta-analytic studies of second language (L2) learning typically employ a classic approach to meta-analysis. Although the classic approach can clarify findings, a multivariate, multilevel meta-analysis (3M) approach increases transparency by accounting for (a) dependencies in the evidence presented by primary studies, (b) methodological…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Notetaking, Second Language Learning
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Crowther, Dustin; Kim, Susie; Lee, Jongbong; Lim, Jungmin; Loewen, Shawn – Language Learning, 2021
We present a review of second language researchers' use of cluster analysis, an advanced statistical method still uncommon but increasingly used to identify groups or patterns in a dataset and to examine group differences. After describing key methodological considerations in conducting cluster analysis, we present a methodological synthesis of 65…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Research Reports, Multivariate Analysis
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Zhang, Yanhui; Wu, Weiping – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
This study proposed an innovative automated approach to differentiation of the vocabulary proficiency of Chinese speakers. A robust K-means algorithm was designed to compare the oral proficiency between L1 and L2 Chinese speakers regarding lexical richness and how relatively effective the various lexical measures were in performing the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Skills, Chinese
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Uzun, Kutay; Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2022
This study aimed to utilize sentiment and sentence similarity analyses, two Natural Language Processing techniques, to see if and how well they could predict L2 Writing Performance in integrated and independent task conditions. The data sources were an integrated L2 writing corpus of 185 literary analysis essays and an independent L2 writing…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Hiromori, Tomohito – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2021
This study examined the performance of university foreign language learners on a writing task by comparing paired work (n = 50) against individual work (n = 50). Data were collected based on three aspects of learners' task engagement: behavioural (time spent working on the task, number of words written), linguistic (English writing scores), and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Cooperative Learning, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
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Pang, Francine; Skehan, Peter – Modern Language Journal, 2021
This study uses a complexity-accuracy-lexis-fluency (CALF) framework to explore performance on 2 speaking tasks: a narrative picture-based task and an interactive decision-making task. A preliminary aim is to compare performance on the 2 tasks, using a wide range of CALF measures to explore where scores are similar and where they are different.…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Speech Communication, Second Language Learning, Accuracy