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Winke, Paula; Zhang, Xiaowan; Pierce, Steven J. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Second language (L2) teachers may shy away from self-assessments because of warnings that students are not accurate self-assessors. This information stems from meta-analyses in which self-assessment scores on average did not correlate highly with proficiency test results. However, researchers mostly used Pearson correlations, when polyserial could…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Language Proficiency
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Köylü, Zeynep; Tracy-Ventura, Nicole – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
In comparative studies focusing on context of learning, the main contexts under investigation have been study abroad (SA), at-home formal instruction (AH), and domestic immersion (IM). With the global status of English and its burgeoning popularity as a medium of instruction in countries where English only holds the status of a lingua franca, a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Study Abroad, Official Languages
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Bryfonski, Lara; Ma, Xue – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
The current study investigates the effects of more explicit versus more implicit corrective feedback on beginner Mandarin learners' perception and production of Mandarin tones. The effects of oral corrective feedback have been extensively investigated for various domains of second language acquisition (see Mackey & Goo, 2007). For phonological…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Tone Languages, Mandarin Chinese, Error Correction
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Revesz, Andrea; Michel, Marije; Gilabert, Roger – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This study explored the usefulness of dual-task methodology, self-ratings, and expert judgments in assessing task-generated cognitive demands as a way to provide validity evidence for manipulations of task complexity. The participants were 96 students and 61 English as a second language (ESL) teachers. The students, 48 English native speakers and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, English Language Learners, Native Speakers
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Godfroid, Aline – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2016
This study extends the evidence for implicit second language (L2) learning, which comes largely from (semi-)artificial language research, to German. Upper-intermediate L2 German learners were flooded with spoken exemplars of a difficult morphological structure, namely strong, vowel-changing verbs. Toward the end of exposure, the mandatory vowel…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Morphology (Languages), Verbs
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Chenoweth, N. Ann; And Others – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1983
Presents findings of a survey of English as a second language students' attitudes toward and preferences for the correction of spoken errors by native speaker friends. The subjects reported positive attitudes toward error correction and claimed to prefer even more correction than their friends did. They saw correcting errors as facilitating--even…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Feedback, Language Attitudes