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Direct linkVandommele, Goedele; Van Gorp, Koen; Van den Branden, Kris; De Maeyer, Sven – Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study investigates the differential effects of a task-based inside-school intervention and an outside-school project intervention on the development of speaking skills of 56 beginner second language (L2)-learners. The study extends previous research by looking at development across multiple occasions instead of two (i.e., a pretest and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Indo European Languages, Intervention
Van Compernolle, Rémi A. – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This article discusses a sociocultural usage-based perspective on the development of sociolinguistic competence. Previous research has focused on learners' acquisition and use of alternative ways of 'saying the same thing' (i.e. native-like variation) in relation to study abroad, contact with native speakers, and pedagogy. Missing from the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
Fogal, Gary G. – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Engaging a complexity theory view of learning, this study examined an atypical timescale for tracking L2 authorial voice development through the interaction of cognitive processes that inform voice construction. A microgenetic analysis of seven adult Japanese learners of English in a three-week writing course designed to help students develop…
Descriptors: Authors, Second Language Learning, Cognitive Processes, Adult Learning
Alrabai, Fakieh – Applied Linguistics, 2016
This article reports the findings of a controlled quasi-experimental study investigating the effects of motivational strategies on learner motivation and achievement in English language classes in Saudi Arabia. The study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the most important motivational strategies were identified. In the second…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Lee, Junkyu; Jang, Juhyun; Plonsky, Luke – Applied Linguistics, 2015
The goal of this study was to determine the overall effects of pronunciation instruction (PI) as well as the sources and extent of variance in observed effects. Toward this end, a comprehensive search for primary studies was conducted, yielding 86 unique reports testing the effects of PI. Each study was then coded on substantive and methodological…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Feedback (Response), Pronunciation Instruction, Outcomes of Education
Mancilla, Rae L.; Polat, Nihat; Akcay, Ahmet O. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
This manuscript reports on a corpus-based comparison of native and nonnative graduate students' language production in an asynchronous learning environment. Using 486 discussion board postings from a five-year period (2009-2013), we analyzed the extent to which native and nonnative university students' writing differed in 10 measures of syntactic…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Written Language
Macaro, Ernesto; Erler, Lynn – Applied Linguistics, 2008
This article reports on an intervention study of reading comprehension among young-beginner learners of French as a foreign language (L2) in England. A number of factors are currently contributing to low achievement in reading among this population of learners. Although research into reading strategies is extensive, and there is some evidence of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Intervention, Low Achievement, Reading Strategies
