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Yves Bestgen – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Measuring lexical diversity in texts that have different lengths is problematic because length has a significant effect on the number of types a text contains, thus hampering any comparison. Treffers-Daller et al. (2018) recommended a simple solution, namely counting the number of types in a section of a given length that was extracted from the…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Second Language Learning, Essays, Writing Evaluation
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Pallotti, Gabriele – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This article is a conceptual and methodological exploration of a new construct, task interactional difficulty, and of a possible approach to assessing task demands in general. After arguing for the use of 'task difficulty' instead of 'task complexity', the notion of task interactional difficulty is analyzed, first by reviewing previous SLA…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Difficulty Level, Second Language Learning, Native Speakers
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Berger, Cynthia M.; Crossley, Scott A.; Kyle, Kristopher – Applied Linguistics, 2019
A large data set of L1 psycholinguistic norms (Balota "et al." 2007) was used to assess spoken L2 English lexical proficiency in cross-sectional and longitudinal learner corpora. Behavioral norms included lexical decision and word naming latencies (i.e. reaction times) and accuracies for 40,481 English words. A frequency measure was…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Case Studies
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Hamada, Megumi; Koda, Keiko – Applied Linguistics, 2010
Two hypotheses were tested: Similarity between first language (L1) and second language (L2) orthographic processing facilitates L2-decoding efficiency; and L2-decoding efficiency contributes to word-meaning inference to different degrees among L2 learners with diverse L1 orthographic backgrounds. The participants were college-level English as a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Inferences, Decoding (Reading), Language Acquisition
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Simpson-Vlach, Rita; Ellis, Nick C. – Applied Linguistics, 2010
This research creates an empirically derived, pedagogically useful list of formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing, comparable with the Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000), called the Academic Formulas List (AFL). The AFL includes formulaic sequences identified as (i) frequent recurrent patterns in corpora of written and spoken language,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Speech, Written Language, Oral Language
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Derwing, Tracey M.; Munro, Murray J.; Thomson, Ron I. – Applied Linguistics, 2008
This longitudinal mixed-methods study compared the oral fluency of well-educated adult immigrants from Mandarin and Slavic language backgrounds (16 per group) enrolled in introductory English as a second language (ESL) classes. Speech samples were collected over a 2-year period, together with estimates of weekly English use. We also conducted…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Slavic Languages, Native Speakers, Immigrants
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Crookes, Graham – Applied Linguistics, 1990
Discusses prominent base units of discourse analysis designed for dealing with structural characteristics of second-language discourse, and offers arguments in favor of selecting the utterance as a valuable base unit. (95 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Language Research, Oral Language
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Gregg, Kevin R. – Applied Linguistics, 1993
Discusses problems involved in scientific explanation in general and their relevance to theories of second-language acquisition (SLA) in particular. The property theory/transition theory distinction and the deductive-nomological model are examined. The use of Lipton's (1991) "best explanation" concept in evaluating SLA theoretical frameworks is…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Linguistic Theory, Models
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Hellermann, John – Applied Linguistics, 2006
Using methods from conversation analysis, this microethnographic longitudinal case study traces the development of interactional competence which results from adult learners' socialization into literacy events in a modified Sustained Silent Reading (mSSR) program. The investigation focuses on two learners who participated in the mSSR program in an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Adult Literacy, Ethnography, English (Second Language)
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Ross, Steven J. – Applied Linguistics, 2005
Alternative assessment procedures have made consistent inroads into second and foreign language assessment practices over the last decade. The original impetus for alternative assessment methods has been predicated more on the ideological appeal this approach offers than on firm empirical evidence that alternative assessment approaches actually…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods, Language Proficiency