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Hernández, Todd A. – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
The present study examined the apologies of 18 study abroad (SA) students during a short-term SA experience in Madrid, Spain. Apologies were assessed with a discourse completion task (DCT) consisting of five vignettes that varied across three variables: relative social status of the interlocutor, relative social distance, and seriousness of the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Pragmatics, Study Abroad
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Abenoja, Zarina Marie Krystle M.; DeCoursey, Matthew – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2019
The exam-oriented education system in Hong Kong has created a language learning environment that is largely confined to traditional classroom settings, which may not take best advantage of students' abilities to relate what they have learnt in class to real-life scenarios. Such learning environments may have implications for the way second…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Recall (Psychology), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Pawlak, Miroslaw; Szyszka, Magdalena – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2018
Disparate goals that learners might have in learning second or foreign language pronunciation and the scant classroom time that can be dedicated to teaching this target language subsystem dictate that learner autonomy is of vital importance in this case and adept use of pronunciation learning strategies (PLS) can be viewed as key to the…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Preferences