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Liu, Dilin; Myers, Daniel – Language Teaching Research, 2020
English phrasal verbs (PVs) are ubiquitous and often polysemous. These lexical items are thus very important, but also challenging for ESL/EFL learners. Substantial research that can inform instructional approaches to PVs has already been conducted. One strand of this research has focused on identifying PVs that merit prioritization in learning.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Moonen, Machteld; de Graaff, Rick; Westhoff, Gerard; Brekelmans, Mieke – Language Teaching Research, 2014
This study focuses on the effects of task type on the retention and ease of activation of second language (L2) vocabulary, based on the multi-feature hypothesis (Moonen, De Graaff, & Westhoff, 2006). Two tasks were compared: a writing task and a list-learning task. It was hypothesized that performing the writing task would yield higher…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Task Analysis, Time on Task, Second Language Learning