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Na Tao; Ying Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Task design features have different effects on second language (L2) production and can be adopted for different pedagogical purposes. However, the synergistic effects of task features were left unexplored in the extant task-based literature. The present study investigated the synergistic effects of two task design features, namely, prior knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Nina Woll; Pierre-Luc Paquet – Language Teaching Research, 2025
If maximal exposure were the key to success in language learning, then adult learners at the university level would be doomed to fail. Not only are they presumably too old to learn additional languages effectively, but target language (TL) input appears to be insufficient, especially when other languages are allowed in class. Nevertheless,…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Metalinguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Teaching Methods
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Wacha, Richard Charles; Liu, Yeu-Ting – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The purpose of this exploratory longitudinal study was to evaluate the efficacy of two new forms of recasts (i.e., elaborated and paraphrased recasts), each of which was designed to be more in accordance with contested views of input processing. The effectiveness of the two new forms of recasts was compared to that of conventional standard…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Morphemes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning