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Riches, Nick – First Language, 2020
Short term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) performance consistently predict language abilities in children with developmental language disorders. However, causality is not fully established. Moreover, evidence from the fine-grained analysis of STM/WM tasks and comprehension of complex sentences, suggests that long term memory (LTM)…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbal Ability, Short Term Memory, Language Skills
Ellis, Rod – Language Teaching, 2017
The advocacy of task-based language teaching (TBLT) has met with resistance. The critiques of TBLT and the misconceptions that underlie them have already been addressed in Ellis (2009) and Long (2016). The purpose of this article is to move forward by examining a number of real problems that TBLT faces--such as how a "task" should be…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Teaching Methods, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Taylor, Lynda – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2014
Looking back to the language testing world of the 1980s in the United Kingdom, we need to be aware that how we perceive or remember ourselves to have been then--whether as individual language testing academics or as corporate language testing organisations--will be shaped by multiple influences. Although we may have been present at and shared in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Testing
Feiman-Nemser, Sharon – Educational Forum, 2018
This commentary highlights findings from two reviews of research on the preparation and continuing development of regular classroom teachers to teach English language learners. Since both reviews use my "central tasks of teacher learning" framework, the commentary also assesses the framework's usefulness in highlighting areas where…
Descriptors: Mainstreaming, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, English Language Learners
Moser, Jason; Harris, Justin; Carle, John – ELT Journal, 2012
This article reports on a teacher-talk training course for Japanese primary school teachers, who are preparing to teach "communicative English" for the first time. The article argues that teacher-talk training is important for communicative classes with young students because most of the input and interaction is by default teacher…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
Berger, Frauke; Hohle, Barbara – Journal of Child Language, 2012
Children up to school age have been reported to perform poorly when interpreting sentences containing restrictive and additive focus particles by treating sentences with a focus particle in the same way as sentences without it. Careful comparisons between results of previous studies indicate that this phenomenon is less pronounced for restrictive…
Descriptors: Sentences, Young Children, Toddlers, German
Carreira, Maria; Potowski, Kim – Heritage Language Journal, 2011
This special issue of the "Heritage Language Journal", guest edited by Silvina Montrul, unites four papers on different aspects of heritage Spanish speakers' linguistic abilities. In this commentary, we reexamine these important contributions with an eye toward implications for instruction and toward general trends for the field. In particular, we…
Descriptors: Spanish, Native Speakers, Native Language Instruction, Heritage Education
Farmer, Thomas A.; Monaghan, Padraic; Misyak, Jennifer B.; Christiansen, Morten H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
In 2 separate self-paced reading experiments, Farmer, Christiansen, and Monaghan (2006) found that the degree to which a word's phonology is typical of other words in its lexical category influences online processing of nouns and verbs in predictive contexts. Staub, Grant, Clifton, and Rayner (2009) failed to find an effect of phonological…
Descriptors: Sentences, Phonology, Nouns, Language Processing
Roelofs, Ardi; Piai, Vitoria; Schriefers, Herbert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
E. Dhooge and R. J. Hartsuiker (2010) reported experiments showing that picture naming takes longer with low- than high-frequency distractor words, replicating M. Miozzo and A. Caramazza (2003). In addition, they showed that this distractor-frequency effect disappears when distractors are masked or preexposed. These findings were taken to refute…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Experiments, Semantics

Bachman, Lyle F. – Language Testing, 2002
Discusses problems in task-based language assessment, including the definition and sampling of tasks, generalizations across tasks, interpretations about broad ability and language use domains, and the notion of task difficulty. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Usage, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning

Bialystok, Ellen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1981
Examines the hypothesis that there are fundamental differences between using language in different situations or for different purposes and that these differences may be accounted for in terms of the requirements of the task to be solved, on the basis of knowledge represented in a particular way. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Cognitive Objectives, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Proficiency, Language Skills

O'Sullivan, Barry – Language Testing, 2002
Explores the effect on pair-task performance of test-takers' familiarity with their partner. Japanese learners performed a series of tasks, once with a friend and again with a person who was not familiar to them. Results support findings in the literature that suggest learners vary their language when interacting with familiar or unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Proficiency, Language Tests, Second Language Instruction

Wu, Weiping M.; Stansfield, Charles W. – Language Testing, 2001
Describes a working model used to determine the target language use in a language for specific purpose test project: the Listening Summary Translation Exam in Taiwanese (LSTE/T). The purpose of the LSTE/T was to evaluate the summary translation ability of applicants who want to work as linguists in law enforcement agencies in the United States.…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Language Usage, Languages for Special Purposes, Listening Comprehension
Kalekin-Fishman, Dvora – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1992
From different viewpoints, the relationships among studying English as a foreign language (EFL), teaching EFL, and training teachers of EFL are likened to those of triangle, parallelogram, and circle. Goal-setting, organizational/situational analysis, and task analysis are discussed. (two references) (LB)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction

McNamara, Tim; Hill, Kathryn; May, Lynette – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 2002
Focuses on the increase in discourse-based studies of oral proficiency assessment techniques. Discusses research carried out on a number of factors in the assessment setting, including the role of interlocutor, candidate, and rater, and the impact of tasks, task performance conditions, and rating criteria. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Criteria, Examiners, Interviews