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Direct linkSuzanne Graham; Pengchong Zhang; Julia Hofweber; Linda Fisher; Heike Krüsemann – Modern Language Journal, 2024
This study considers the relative benefits for vocabulary learning of exposure to two types of texts--literary or nonliterary--used with two teaching approaches. These approaches were termed "functional and creative", respectively. In the former, learners' attention was drawn to factual information and linguistic features in order to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Role Theory, Teaching Methods
Kim, YouJin; Kang, Sanghee; D'Arienzo, Meredith – Modern Language Journal, 2021
Task-based research has shown the benefits of using tasks in various instructional contexts across different age groups. Although task-based language teaching promotes language learning through authentic real-world tasks, previous research has mainly used controlled pedagogic tasks. The current exploratory, intact-classroom, multi-case study…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Issa, Bernard Ibrahim; Faretta-Stutenberg, Mandy; Bowden, Harriet Wood – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This study examined linguistic development among both intermediate and advanced college-level second language (L2) learners during short-term study abroad summer programs in Spain. Participants completed a measure of overall proficiency, as well as assessments of receptive grammatical (morphosyntactic) and lexical (semantic) abilities at the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Vocabulary Development, Morphology (Languages), Language Proficiency
Qin, Kongji – Modern Language Journal, 2020
This article examines the relationship between language curriculum and learners' subjectivity through a poststructuralist perspective. I use performativity theory to highlight the constituting power of language and integrate it with critical race theory to understand the relationships among curriculum, classroom interaction, and subjectivity…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Classroom Communication, Immigrants, Correlation
Hauser, Eric – Modern Language Journal, 2017
Within the framework of Conversation Analysis for Second Language Acquisition (CA-SLA), this study uses learning behavior tracking (LBT) (Markee, 2008) with longitudinal data to investigate word learning by one adult second language (L2) user of English. The adult is a first language (L1) user of Japanese with limited proficiency in English. Data…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Japanese, Native Language
Leonard, Karen Ruth; Shea, Christine E. – Modern Language Journal, 2017
We take a multidimensional perspective on the development of second language (L2) speaking ability and examine how changes in the underlying cognitive variables of linguistic knowledge and processing speed interact with complexity, fluency, and accuracy over the course of a 3-month Spanish study abroad session. Study abroad provides a unique…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Processing, Study Abroad
