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Almudena Fernández-Fontecha; James Ryan – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This study seeks to delve into the potential role of divergent thinking, a component of creativity, in second language learning. Specifically, we compare the use of lexical organization and production strategies of two groups of more and less creative EFL learners in year 12 through an automatic vectorial semantic analysis of their retrieval in…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Bielak, Jakub; Pawlak, Mirosuaw – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2011
Form-focused instruction is usually based on traditional practical/pedagogical grammar descriptions of grammatical features. The comparison of such traditional accounts with cognitive grammar (CG) descriptions seems to favor CG as a basis of pedagogical rules. This is due to the insistence of CG on the meaningfulness of grammar and its detailed…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Grammar, Morphemes