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A. Pradheepa; K. Gurusamy; T. Pushpanathan – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2025
This meta-analysis aims to investigate gamification's impact on improving tertiary-level second-language learners' lexical repertoire. Forty-seven peer-reviewed works were evaluated for this analysis. The analysis focused on determining the effectiveness of gamified learning environments in the context of improving vocabulary and learning and…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Game Based Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Laleh Khojasteh; Jayakaran Mukundan – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2025
This systematic review explores the evolution and impact of corpus-based methodologies in textbook analysis within the field of language education between 2010 and 2024. Utilizing the PRISMA framework, 29 studies were identified and analyzed, highlighting the transition from basic frequency analyses to sophisticated examinations of lexical,…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Computational Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Semantics
Dilin Liu; Jie Qin – Modern Language Journal, 2024
This systematic review synthesizes the literature (involving 62 empirical studies) regarding the effectiveness of cognitive linguistics-inspired language pedagogies (CL-ILPs) on second language (L2) learning. It begins with an overview of the main theoretical tenets of cognitive linguistics followed by a description of the data selection, coding,…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Semantics
Hye-Young Kwak – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study examines types and characteristics of data collection tasks used in studies on scope ambiguity in English involving a universally quantified noun phrase and negation, and investigates any differences in comprehension patterns across studies using different tasks. Since Musolino's seminal 1998 study using a truth value judgment task,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Morphemes
Rice, Caitlin A.; Tokowicz, Natasha – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This review examines and integrates studies of second language (L2) vocabulary instruction with adult learners in a laboratory setting, using a framework provided by a modified version of the Revised Hierarchical Model (Kroll & Stewart, 1994), the Revised Hierarchical Model-Repetition Elaboration Retrieval. By examining how various training…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Semantics
Michael Li – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
The acquisition of Chinese characters has been widely acknowledged as challenging for learners of Chinese as a foreign language (CFL) due to their unique logographic nature and the time and effort involved. However, recent advancements in instructional technologies demonstrate a promising role in facilitating the teaching and learning of Chinese…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Technology Uses in Education, Teaching Methods, Research Reports
Li, Lexi Xiaoduo – SAGE Open, 2022
This study demonstrates how native and learner corpora can enhance modal verb treatment in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) textbooks used in mainland China. Data analysis compares modal verbs in the textbook and native corpus by referring to distributional features, semantic functions and co-occurring constructions; and the analysis of the…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Khan, Muhammad Asim; Zaki, Sajida – SAGE Open, 2022
Language education policies contain discourses that have language ideologies embedded within them. This study explores the language ideologies in official language education policy documents of Pakistan from 2000 to 2020. Using Corpus Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis techniques, a 1.28 million-word-corpus was generated from 32 policy documents…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Liu, Dilin; Myers, Daniel – Language Teaching Research, 2020
English phrasal verbs (PVs) are ubiquitous and often polysemous. These lexical items are thus very important, but also challenging for ESL/EFL learners. Substantial research that can inform instructional approaches to PVs has already been conducted. One strand of this research has focused on identifying PVs that merit prioritization in learning.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Al-Jarf, Reima S.; Mingazova, Nailya G. – Online Submission, 2020
This study analyzed the textbooks titled "Arabic for Non-native Speaking Children", Level I by Zakirov, Mingazova, and Mukhametzyanov (2011), and "Arabic for Non-Native Speaking Children", Level II by Mingazova, Zakirov, and Mukhametzyanov (2013) which are used to teach Arabic as a foreign language (AFL) to elementary school…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Nassaji, Hossein – Language Teaching, 2014
This article examines current research on the role and importance of lower-level processes in second language (L2) reading. The focus is on word recognition and its subcomponent processes, including various phonological and orthographic processes. Issues related to syntactic and semantic processes and their relationship with word recognition are…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Reading Skills, Word Recognition, Phonology
Ordem, Eser; Bada, Erdogan – Online Submission, 2016
The dominance of syntactic studies in linguistics has caused lexis and grammar to be perceived as two distinct categories. With introduction of the paradigm of cognitive linguistics, the studies in syntax have been replaced by those in lexis and concepts. Semantics has come to the fore through the studies in cognitive linguistics, and there has…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Grammar, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Tsuchida, Takehiro – Online Submission, 2010
The fact that English non-count abstract nouns such as knowledge are compatible with the indefinite article a/an is not only perplexing for second language (L2) learners of English but also troublesome for both native and non-native English teachers. This paper does research on this curious phenomenon of English grammar to clarify its mechanism…
Descriptors: Semantics, Nouns, Grammar, English (Second Language)

Crow, John T. – Modern Language Journal, 1986
This article argues in favor of a receptive vocabulary component in foreign language courses through consideration of: productive vs. receptive vocabulary knowledge; misconceptions in receptive vocabulary instruction; and classroom-tested approaches and activities for receptive vocabulary development. (CB)
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Reading Comprehension, Receptive Language, Second Language Instruction

Dunmore, Don – Reading in a Foreign Language, 1989
Analysis of second-language exercises intended to expand context-inference skills in reading indicated that most of the exercises offered little help in developing the skill and only partial understanding of word meaning. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Reading Comprehension, Reading Skills, Second Language Instruction