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Download full textHiver, Phil; Obando, Gabriel; Sang, Yuan; Tahmouresi, Somayeh; Zhou, Ashlee; Zhou, Yang – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
In this study we investigate the situated and dynamic nature of the "L2 learning experience" through a newly-purposed instrument called the "Language Learning Story Interview," adapted from McAdams' life story interview (2007). Using critical case sampling, data were collected from an equal number of learners of various L2s…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Experience, Case Studies
Djigunovic, Jelena Mihaljevic – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
In this qualitative study the author focuses on age effects on young learners' L2 development by comparing the L2 learning processes of six young learners in an instructed setting: three who had started learning English as L2 at age 6/7 and three who had started at age 9/10. Both earlier and later young beginners were followed for three years…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Learning Motivation, Qualitative Research
Neary-Sundquist, Colleen – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
This study investigates the use of pragmatic markers (PMs) by learners of English at varying proficiency levels. The study analyzes data from a university-level oral proficiency exam that categorized Chinese and Korean English-as-a-second-language (ESL) speakers into four proficiency levels and compares data with those of native speakers taking…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
Gregersen, Tammy; MacIntyre, Peter D.; Finegan, Kate Hein; Talbot, Kyle; Claman, Shelby – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
Emotional intelligence has not been widely studied in second language acquisition and studies published to date have been questionnaire-based. In this study we take a qualitative approach to focus on how emotional intelligence is used by two participants, one a learner and the other a pre-service teacher. The two focal participants were selected…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Psychology, Well Being, Intervention
Karlsson, Monica – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
In the present investigation, 15 first term university students were faced with 80 context-based idioms in English (L2) and Swedish (L1) respectively, 30 of which were in the source domain of animals, commonly used in both languages, and asked to explain their meaning. The idioms were of varying frequency and transparency. Three main research…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Baran-Lucarz, Malgorzata – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2012
The paper reports on a study designed to examine the relationship between the thickness of ego boundaries and attainments in FL pronunciation after a clearly structured form-focused practical course of phonetics. The research involved 45 first-year students of the Institute of English Studies in Wroclaw, Poland, who had attended around thirty…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phonetics
