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Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura; Revesz, Andrea – Language Learning, 2012
Tasks and interactional feedback have received much attention in instructed second language acquisition research in recent years. However, little research exists that has investigated feedback and task factors together during naturally occurring teacher-student interaction in classroom settings. To bridge this gap, the current study explored the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
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MacIntyre, P. D.; Gardner, R. C. – Language Learning, 1989
Literature on foreign language anxiety shows a considerable amount of ambiguity arising from conflicting results of past studies. An attempt is made to show that these difficulties can be resolved given an awareness of the theoretical perspective from which this research has developed. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Communication Apprehension, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
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Day, Richard R.; And Others – Language Learning, 1984
Presents the results of an investigation into how native speakers of English provide corrective feedback to errors in conversation with their nonnative speaker friends. Native speakers responded to errors by using either on-record or off-record corrective feedback and several noncorrective discourse devices to repair conversational difficulties.…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Higher Education
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Yano, Yasukata; And Others – Language Learning, 1994
Japanese college students (n=483) learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) read passages in English in one of three forms: (1) native baseline; (2) simplified; or (3) elaborated. The study found that comprehension was highest among learners reading the simplified version but was not significantly different from those reading the elaborated…
Descriptors: College Students, Difficulty Level, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Davis, John McE. – Language Learning, 2007
The study examines how learner biases toward a particular national type of English affect interlanguage pragmatics. Specifically, this study assesses the degree to which Korean ESL (English as a second language) students' preferences for North American English influence their willingness to use Australian-English routines while studying in…
Descriptors: Interlanguage, Foreign Countries, North American English, Pragmatics
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Carrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1984
Reports an empirical study which compared recalls of two types of stories--one well-structured and the other deliberately not well-structured--by students of English as a second language. Results indicate that the quantity and temporal sequence of story recall are affected by differences in story structure. (SED)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Research
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Gardner, Robert C.; MacIntyre, Peter D. – Language Learning, 1993
Four issues concerning aspects of the validity of the Attitude/Motivation Test Battery are examined: (1) whether the subtests assess the attributes claimed; (2) the relationship of the subtests to higher order constructs; (3) whether the strategy for measuring affective variables influences correlations with achievement measures; and (4)…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Attitude Measures, College Students, Correlation
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Lennon, Paul – Language Learning, 1989
Describes an introspective study of four advanced learners of German under conditions of initial extensive exposure to the second language community. It is suggested that introspective techniques can profitably be employed with the advanced learner. (49 references) (CB)
Descriptors: Advanced Students, English (Second Language), German, Higher Education
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Jonz, Jon – Language Learning, 1989
Reports on research into the interactive roles played in the verbal comprehension processes by the sequence of textual elements, text-specific prior knowledge, and levels of language proficiency. Four cloze tests were administered to undergraduate and graduate native speakers of English and to undergraduate non-native speakers of English at three…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Higher Education
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Cumming, Alister – Language Learning, 1989
Assessment of the English writing proficiency of 23 native French speaking students on 3 composition tasks found variance in the qualities of written texts and problem-solving behaviors. Writing expertise was found to affect discourse organization and content, writing complexity, heuristic strategies, and control strategies, while second-language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Higher Education, Language Processing, Language Proficiency
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Zobl, Helmut – Language Learning, 1989
Analysis of data derived from an earlier study of Japanese-English interlanguage shows that discourse-pragmatic markedness conditions on the subject position combine with central aspects of a configurational syntax in the generation of sentential forms, creating a module interface distinct from the native or second language. (38 references)…
Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Higher Education