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McManus, Kevin; Liu, Yingying – Language Teaching, 2022
We closely replicated Wu and Ortega (2013), who found that an elicited imitation test (EIT) reliably distinguished low-level from high-level language abilities among instructed second language (L2) learners of Mandarin Chinese. The original study sampled learners: (1) from second-level courses to represent low-level language abilities; and (2)…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Imitation
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Booth, Paul – Language Teaching, 2013
This paper presents an approximate replication of Milton's (2007) study on lexical profiles and learning style. Milton investigated the assumption that more frequent words are acquired before less frequent ones. Using a vocabulary recognition test ("X-Lex") to measure vocabulary size, Milton found that L2 English group profiles show…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Cognitive Style, Correlation, Language Aptitude