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Benati, Alessandro – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
In this paper, a review of the role of input, output and instruction in second language acquisition is provided. Several pedagogical interventions in grammar instruction (e.g., processing instruction, input enhancement, structured output and collaborative output tasks) are presented and their effectiveness reviewed. A final and overall evaluation…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Grammar, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Benati, Alessandro – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Researchers in the field of instructed second language acquisition have been examining the issue of how learners interact with input by conducting research measuring particular kinds of instructional interventions (input-oriented and meaning-based). These interventions include such things as input flood, textual enhancement and processing…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Intervention
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Singleton, David – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
"Language awareness and language aptitude" often crop up in discussion of various second language acquisition phenomena, including age-related phenomena. There is a troublesome and ongoing definitional and theoretical problem in this connection: Different researchers have different perspectives on what is to be included in the respective…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Aptitude, Age Differences
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Vanhove, Jan – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
I discuss three common practices that obfuscate or invalidate the statistical analysis of randomized controlled interventions in applied linguistics. These are (a) checking whether randomization produced groups that are balanced on a number of possibly relevant covariates, (b) using repeated measures ANOVA to analyze pretest-posttest designs, and…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Intervention, Applied Linguistics, Statistical Analysis
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Krüger, Ralph – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
This article sets out to illustrate possible applications of electronic corpora in the translation classroom. Starting with a survey of corpus use within corpus-based translation studies, the didactic value of corpora in the translation classroom and their epistemic value in translation teaching and practice will be elaborated. A typology of…
Descriptors: Translation, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Gozdawa-Golebiowski, Romuald – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
This paper examines the status of European English (EE) in current linguistic theory, in particular the hotly debated issue of whether or not it is possible to treat EE as an endonormative linguistic variety in its own right. Alternatively, EE may remain a form of English as a foreign language (EFL), and the decision has far-reaching…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation, Epistemology