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Direct linkAlipour, Javad; Mohebi, Maryam; Roohani, Ali – Language Teaching, 2023
We report on a conceptual replication of Révész (2012) in order to investigate the idea whether learners provided with recasts do engage in different kinds of behavioral engagement as a function of their working memory and if/how this engagement comes to bear on performance on different measures. Engagement with recasts was measured through a…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Error Correction
Johnson, Mark D.; Nicodemus, Christine L. – Language Teaching, 2016
In order to better understand the role of working memory in second language (L2) written production, this study contributes to recent research attempting to apply Kellogg's model of working memory in first language (L1) writing to L2 writing research (Ellis & Yuan 2004; Ong & Zhang 2010; Johnson, Mercado & Acevedo 2012). This paper…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Replication (Evaluation), Quasiexperimental Design
Wen, Zhisheng; Biedron, Adriana; Skehan, Peter – Language Teaching, 2017
Foreign language (FL) aptitude generally refers to a specific talent for learning a foreign or second language (L2). After experiencing a long period of marginalized interest, FL aptitude research in recent years has witnessed renewed enthusiasm across the disciplines of educational psychology, second language acquisition (SLA) and cognitive…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Educational Psychology
Wen, Zhisheng – Language Teaching, 2014
Working memory (WM) generally refers to the human ability to temporarily maintain and manipulate a limited amount of information in immediate consciousness when carrying out complex cognitive tasks such as problem-solving and language comprehension. Though much controversy has surrounded the WM concept since its inception by Baddeley & Hitch…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Native Language
Wen, Zhisheng; McNeill, Arthur; Mota, Mailce Borges – Language Teaching, 2014
Organized under the auspices of the "Language Learning" Roundtable Conference Grant (2012), this seminar aimed to provide an interactive forum for a group of second language acquisition (SLA) researchers with particular interests in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics to discuss key theoretical and methodological issues in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Seminars, Second Language Learning, Psycholinguistics
Juffs, Alan; Harrington, Michael – Language Teaching, 2011
This article reviews research on working memory (WM) and its use in second language (L2) acquisition research. Recent developments in the model and issues surrounding the operationalization of the construct itself are presented, followed by a discussion of various methods of measuring WM. These methods include word and digit span tasks, reading,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Short Term Memory, Learning Processes
