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Hoi Vo – Applied Linguistics, 2024
L2 learner engagement is an emerging but critical construct in the field of psychology of language learning and teaching. However, research on L2 learner engagement has suffered from the inconsistent operationalization of the multidimensional structure of the construct and the conceptual overlap among its different components, making research…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learner Engagement, English (Second Language), Asians
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Perera, Kaushalya – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Memoirs and autobiographical writing on language learning provide perspectives on migration and residence in North America and Europe for the most part, where struggle and loss are some of the recurrent themes (Aneta Pavlenko 2001a; Besemeres 2004; Kinginger 2004a). An unaddressed aspect of foreign language learning remains the 'reverse'…
Descriptors: North Americans, Second Language Learning, Learning Experience, Females
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Lasagabaster, David; Doiz, Aintzane – Applied Linguistics, 2017
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programmes are burgeoning in European school contexts due to the widespread belief that they help to significantly improve foreign language learning while content learning is not negatively affected. However, some of its purported benefits still need to be empirically confirmed. Thus, while this…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Course Content, Language of Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Forman, Ross – Applied Linguistics, 2011
The relationship between creativity, play, and language learning has been of increasing interest over the past decade, but the role of humour itself in SLL remains significantly under-explored. The present study examines humorous language play initiated by a bilingual EFL teacher and taken up by his post-beginner students in a Thai university…
Descriptors: Creativity, Linguistics, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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Cekaite, Asta – Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper explores L2 novices' ways of soliciting teacher attention, more specifically, their summonses. The data are based on detailed analyses of video recordings in a Swedish language immersion classroom. The analyses illuminate the lexical shape of summonses in conjunction with prosody, body posture, gestures, and classroom artefacts. As…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Immersion Programs, Swedish
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Corrigan, Roberta – Applied Linguistics, 2007
This paper examines an under-studied component of deep vocabulary knowledge, affective meaning, which is used to convey attitudes. Two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency, are examined to determine whether they influence the vocabulary choices of native speakers of American-English in describing interpersonal interactions. In Experiment…
Descriptors: Semantics, Patients, Sentences, Nouns