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Wyra, Mirella; Lawson, Michael J. – Language Learning Journal, 2018
There is ample evidence that language learning strategies improve learners' outcomes. This is also the case in vocabulary learning. However, little attention has been given to students' language learning strategy knowledge. This experimental study assessed the extent to which keyword method (KWM) explicit instruction resulted in students' explicit…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Recall (Psychology), Learning Strategies
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Azkarai, Agurtzane; Oliver, Rhonda – Language Learning Journal, 2019
Research on task repetition in second language (L2) learning has shown the benefits of this practice for subsequent L2 learning. However, as with much L2 research, most studies on task repetition have focused on adults and there is a dearth of research in this area involving young children. This study examines the effect of task repetition on two…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kirsch, Claudine; Bes Izuel, Asunción – Language Learning Journal, 2019
The present small-scale study investigates language learning in primary schools in Luxembourg and the ways in which this process is mediated by peers and the iPad app iTEO. This study draws its data from the larger longitudinal qualitative research project iTEO (2013-2017) and is based on 13 hours of audio and video-recordings. The participants…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Teaching Methods, Video Technology, Learning Strategies
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Psaltou-Joycey, Angeliki; Agathopoulou, Eleni; Joycey, Edgar; Sougari, Areti-Maria; Kazamia, Vassilia; Petrogiannis, Konstantinos; Gavriilidou, Zoe – Language Learning Journal, 2018
The present paper aims to shed some light on those EFL teachers' language learning strategy instructional practices which facilitate their learners' identification and selection of L2 learning strategies (LLS). To investigate the LLS which teachers promoted in mainstream and Muslim minority schools in Greece, we used data elicited through a 47…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Montero, Lidia; Serrano, Raquel; Llanes, Àngels – Language Learning Journal, 2017
This study examines the effects of foreign language learning context (three-month study-abroad; versus "at-home" instruction) and age (10-11-year-old children versus university students) on the development of effective foreign language communication strategies (CS) in monologue production. Participants (N = 95) were all Spanish/Catalan…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Educational Environment, Study Abroad, Teaching Methods