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Purpose and Strategic Engagement in Informal English Digital Activities and Aspects of Vocabulary Knowledge
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Chun Lai; Yang Liu; Yun Lin – Applied Linguistics, 2025
Research has established positive associations between informal digital activities and vocabulary knowledge. However, understanding how different types of digital activities relate to various aspects of vocabulary knowledge is limited. This study examined how the purpose of informal digital activities and strategic engagement during and/or after…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Knowledge Level, Universities, English (Second Language)
Manner and Quality of Negotiation during L2 Collaborative Writing
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Zhenhao Cao; Rachael Ruegg; Stephen Skalicky – Applied Linguistics, 2025
Although peer interaction has received attention in second language (L2) collaborative writing (CW) research, the manner and quality of peer interaction have been less investigated. Previous studies usually examined peer interaction by looking at language-related episodes, overlooking the ways students negotiate for different types of knowledge…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Peer Relationship, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior
Soliciting Teacher Attention in an L2 Classroom: Affect Displays, Classroom Artefacts, and Embodied Action
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Cekaite, Asta – Applied Linguistics, 2009
This paper explores L2 novices' ways of soliciting teacher attention, more specifically, their summonses. The data are based on detailed analyses of video recordings in a Swedish language immersion classroom. The analyses illuminate the lexical shape of summonses in conjunction with prosody, body posture, gestures, and classroom artefacts. As…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Immersion Programs, Swedish
Learning Strategies for Oral Communication.
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Huang, Xiao-Hua; van Naerssen, Margaret – Applied Linguistics, 1987
Describes the study of learning strategies employed by successful (defined in terms of oral communicative abilities) Chinese learners of English. These strategies are compared to those of less successful learners and those of other population types from other studies. The test of oral communicative abilities is described. A strategies…
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Style, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language)
Negotiation for Meaning and Peer Assistance in Second Language Classrooms
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Foster, Pauline; Ohta, Amy Snyder – Applied Linguistics, 2005
This paper investigates the value of language classroom negotiation of meaning from both cognitive and sociocultural perspectives. According to Long (1985, 1996) comprehensible input gained through interactional adjustments such as negotiating meaning and modifying output is central to second language acquisition, and much research has been…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Interaction, Linguistic Input, Communication Problems
"We Do Not Seem to Have a Theory ... The Theory I Present Here Attempts to Fill This Gap": Inclusive and Exclusive Pronouns in Academic Writing
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Harwood, Nigel – Applied Linguistics, 2005
This paper is a qualitative and quantitative corpus-based study of how academic writers use the personal pronouns I and inclusive and exclusive we. Using a multidisciplinary corpus comprising of journal research articles (RAs) from the fields of Business and Management, Computing Science, Economics, and Physics, I present data extracts which…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Textbooks, Physics, Learning Activities