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DeKeyser, Robert M.; Sokalski, Karl J. – Language Learning, 2001
Examined the differential role of comprehension and production practice in second language learning. Discusses the results of a study of 82 first-year students of Spanish as a second language that indicated that relative effectiveness of production versus comprehension practice depended on the morphosyntactic complexity of the structure in…
Descriptors: Class Activities, College Students, Grammar, Higher Education

Seedhouse, Paul – Language Learning, 1997
Reviews the relationship between pedagogy and interaction by analyzing extracts from second-language (L2) classrooms using a conversation analysis methodology. Points out that the relationship between the two is necessarily reflexive and concludes that it would be preferable for pedagogical recommendations to harmonize with the interactional…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Discourse Analysis, Error Analysis (Language)
Lee, Sy-ying – Language Learning, 2005
This study presents and tests a hypothesized structural model that attempts to explain the relationship of writing in English as a foreign language by Taiwanese university students to a variety of factors. Investigated were factors considered to be inhibiting (writing apprehension and writer's block), factors considered to be facilitative (free…
Descriptors: Writing Apprehension, English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning

Van den Branden, Kris – Language Learning, 1997
Investigated the effects of various types of negotiation on learners' output. The study focused on three groups of child learners of Dutch who were asked to orally describe a series of pictures to a partner in a communicative context. Results indicated how and to what extent participants interactionally modified their output. (Author/CK) (59…
Descriptors: Child Language, Class Activities, Context Effect, Dutch