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Indrarathne, Bimali; Kormos, Judit – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
In this study we examined language learners' attentional processing of a target syntactic construction in written L2 input in different input conditions, the change in learners' knowledge of the targeted construction in these conditions, and the relationship between the change in knowledge and attentional processing. One hundred L2 learners of…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Attention
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Jung, YeonJoo; Kim, YouJin; Murphy, John – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
This study focused on an instructional component often neglected when teaching the pronunciation of English as either a second, foreign, or international language--namely, the suprasegmental feature of lexical stress. Extending previous research on collaborative priming tasks and task repetition, the study investigated the impact of task and…
Descriptors: Role, Task Analysis, Pretests Posttests, Pronunciation
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Sato, Masatoshi; Lyster, Roy – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
This quasi-experimental study is aimed at (a) teaching learners how to provide corrective feedback (CF) during peer interaction and (b) assessing the effects of peer interaction and CF on second language (L2) development. Four university-level English classes in Japan participated (N = 167), each assigned to one of four treatment conditions. Of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Interaction, Foreign Countries
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Yang, Yingli; Lyster, Roy – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2010
Conducted in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms at the university level in China, this quasi-experimental study compared the effects of three different corrective feedback treatments on 72 Chinese learners' use of regular and irregular English past tense. Three classes were randomly assigned to a prompt group, a recast group, or a…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Control Groups, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
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De Jong, Nel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2005
This study examines whether aural processing of input in a situation of implicit instruction can build a knowledge base that is available for both comprehension and production tasks. Fifty-five Dutch students learned a miniature linguistic system based on Spanish. Three training conditions were compared in which noun-adjective gender agreement was…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Listening Comprehension Tests
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Ellis, Rod; Loewen, Shawn; Erlam, Rosemary – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
This article reviews previous studies of the effects of implicit and explicit corrective feedback on SLA, pointing out a number of methodological problems. It then reports on a new study of the effects of these two types of corrective feedback on the acquisition of past tense -ed. In an experimental design (two experimental groups and a control…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Error Correction, Experimental Groups, Control Groups