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The Effect of Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication on Beginner L2 Learners' Foreign Language Anxiety and Participation
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Côté, Stephanie; Gaffney, Caitlin – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This study investigates the role of typed synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) on learners' foreign language anxiety and output quantity. Sixty-one beginner French learners participated in the study. In the first session (group 1: SCMC, group 2: face-to-face [FTF]), participants learned new vocabulary and the present tense forms of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, French
Studies on Oral Error Correction: Do They Provide Counterevidence against Nativist Arguments?
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Sepehrinia, Sajjad; Nemati, Majid; Khomijani Farahani, Ali Akbar – Language Learning Journal, 2019
Among focus-on-form studies, oral corrective feedback (CF) has probably received the greatest attention. The majority of studies in this area appear to support a positive role for oral CF in improving interlanguage development. However, theorists adopting a nativist view of second language acquisition continue to question its effectiveness. The…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Interlanguage, Syntax, Error Correction
Analysis of Accuracy in the Writing of EFL Students Enrolled on CLIL and Non-CLIL Programmes: The Impact of Grade and Gender
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Lahuerta, Ana – Language Learning Journal, 2020
This paper examines written language accuracy in a content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and a non-CLIL instruction context including grade and gender in the analysis. Essays written by 393 third and fourth year CLIL and non-CLIL secondary education students were evaluated by two measures of second language (L2) accuracy: error-free…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Accuracy
The Effects of Contexts on the Acquisition of Oral Lexical Ability in English as a Foreign Language
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Zaytseva, Victoria; Miralpeix, Imma; Pérez-Vidal, Carmen – Language Learning Journal, 2021
While there is ample evidence that study abroad (SA) enhances oral fluency in a foreign language, the effects of different types of learning context on other aspects of oral skills, such as vocabulary use, have not received much attention in academic research and are less clear. The present study tries to fill this void by investigating lexical…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Oral Language, Form Classes (Languages), Study Abroad
Using Authentic Picture Books and Illustrated Books to Improve L2 Writing among 11-Year-Olds
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Birketveit, Anna; Rimmereide, Hege Emma – Language Learning Journal, 2017
The case study investigates what impact extensive reading of authentic picture books/illustrated books had on the learners' writing skills in a Norwegian EFL (English as a foreign language) classroom of 11-year-olds. Furthermore, the study also looks into the importance the pictures/illustrations had for the learners and what type of picture-text…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Picture Books, Illustrations, Writing Instruction
Some Reasons behind the Drop-Out from German Foreign Language Study between AS and A2 Levels
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Watts, Catherine; Pickering, Angela – Language Learning Journal, 2005
Current figures (CILT, 2005) indicate that, whilst the numbers of students taking post-16 modern foreign language public examinations in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have declined overall between 2000 and 2004, one of the biggest drops is for German, which has experienced a steady year-on-year decline over the same period at the full A…
Descriptors: Age, Form Classes (Languages), Qualitative Research, Linguistics