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Ignatova, Olga; Kalyuga, Slava; Sweller, John – Language Teaching Research, 2023
The imagination effect occurs when students learn better from imagining concepts and procedures rather than from studying them. Cognitive load theory explains the effect by better use of available working memory resources and increased productive, intrinsic cognitive load. The effect has been found in numerous empirical studies. However, in the…
Descriptors: Imagination, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Boers, Frank; Dang, Tu Cam Thi; Strong, Brian – Language Teaching Research, 2017
In a recent article, Boers, Demecheleer, Coxhead, and Webb (2014) deplored the lack of effectiveness for the learning of verb-noun collocations of a number of exercise formats which they sampled from EFL textbooks and put to the test in a series of quasi-experimental trials. The authors called for further investigations into possible improvements…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Quasiexperimental Design, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lyster, Roy – Language Teaching Research, 2019
This article recounts three studies that portray an evolution from research examining the effects of researcher-designed instructional interventions to research examining the impact of helping teachers to design their own instructional interventions. Study 1 investigated the effects of an instructional treatment designed by the research team on…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Social Studies, French, Second Language Learning
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Eyckmans, June; Lindstromberg, Seth – Language Teaching Research, 2017
Corpus analyses of learners' dictionaries of English idioms have revealed that 11% to 35% of English figurative idioms show either alliteration ("miss the mark") or assonance ("get this show on the road"), depending on the type considered. Because English multiword combinations, particularly idiomatic expressions, present a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Figurative Language, Phonology
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Zhang, Xiaoyan – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The study examines whether there is any difference between the effects of a reading-writing integrated task and comprehensive corrective feedback (CF) on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners' writing development, and whether the input language in the integrated task makes a difference in L2 writing development over time and the language…
Descriptors: Reading Writing Relationship, Error Correction, Pretests Posttests, Control Groups
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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