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Ken Hyland; Feng Jiang – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
While writing involves interactions between writers and readers as each considers the other in creating and interpreting texts, research interest in written interaction is a fairly recent development. This paper uses a bibliometric analysis to trace the growing interest in written interaction over the past 30 years from its origins in philosophy,…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Language Research, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Benati, Alessandro – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Researchers in the field of instructed second language acquisition have been examining the issue of how learners interact with input by conducting research measuring particular kinds of instructional interventions (input-oriented and meaning-based). These interventions include such things as input flood, textual enhancement and processing…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Intervention
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Hoang, Hien; Boers, Frank – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Adult second language (L2) learners have often been found to produce discourse that manifests limited and non-native-like use of multiword expressions. One explanation for this is that adult L2 learners are relatively unsuccessful (in the absence of pedagogic intervention) at transferring multiword expressions from input texts to their own output…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Zuniga, Michael; Simard, Daphnée – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2016
Discourse features that promote the generation of interactionally modified input and output, such as negotiation for meaning, have been shown to significantly enhance second language acquisition. Research has also identified several characteristics of instructional practices that render them more or less propitious to the generation of these…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Li, Shaopeng; Yang, Lianrui – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014
The present study aims to investigate the general characteristics of topicprominent typological interlanguage development of Chinese learners of English in terms of acquiring subject-prominent English structures from a discourse perspective. Topic structures mainly appear in Chinese discourse in the form of topic chains (Wang, 2002; 2004). The…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction