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Nana Kwon – English Teaching, 2024
This study investigates how working memory (WM) capacity and L2 linguistic knowledge affect L2 literal and inferential reading comprehension, considering the presence or absence of background knowledge. Eighty upper-intermediate to advanced adult English learners participated, completing tasks to assess WM capacity, background knowledge, L2…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Prior Learning, Second Language Learning, Knowledge Level
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Shaofeng Li – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This article reports on a comprehensive synthesis of the literature on the role of working memory in second language (L2) writing. It starts with an overview and clarification of the construct and measurement of working memory, followed by an elaboration of major theoretical models informing the synthesized research. The article then presents a…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Models
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Saad Aldosari; Lauren Covey; Alison Gabriele – Second Language Research, 2024
We investigate sensitivity to island constraints in English native speakers and Najdi Arabic learners of English, examining (1) whether second language (L2) learners whose native language (L1) does not instantiate overt "wh"-movement are sensitive to island constraints and (2) the source of island effects. Under a grammatical account of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabic, Undergraduate Students, Native Speakers
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Meysam Muhammadpour; Amir Mahdavi Zafarghandi; Abdorreza Tahriri – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
EFL listening comprehension has been a stark challenge for language learners, but little is known about the combined effect of individual differences, such as working memory capacity, and metacognitive intervention. Thus, the present experimental study investigates the effect of metacognitive intervention on the listening performance and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Listening Comprehension, Metacognition, Second Language Learning
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Mark Feng Teng – Language Learning Journal, 2025
This study first validates a survey on self-regulated vocabulary learning strategies. It then examines the effects on the acquisition of new second language (L2) words from a reading text of three word-focused exercise conditions: reading + marginal glosses, reading + gap-fill and reading + sentence writing. It also evaluates the extent to which…
Descriptors: Self Management, Vocabulary, Learning Strategies, Short Term Memory
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In'nami, Yo; Hijikata, Yuko; Koizumi, Rie – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
The relationship between working memory (WM) and second-language (L2) reading has been extensively examined, with mixed results. Our meta-analysis models the potential impact of under-researched variables considered to moderate this relationship. Results from 74 studies (228 correlations) showed a significant, small relationship between WM and L2…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Reading Comprehension, Task Analysis
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Nick Henry; Briana Villegas; Kara Morgan-Short – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
An important issue in second-language acquisition concerns the role of explicit information (EI) and how it is affected by individual differences. The present study explored this question through a partial replication and extension of Fernández (2008: Experiment 2), which investigated the effects of EI in processing instruction (PI) for the…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Direct Instruction
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Mark Feng Teng; Yachong Cui – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
A growing number of studies have focused on uncovering linguistic and cognitive skills predictive of reading comprehension. Vocabulary knowledge (VK) and morphological awareness (MA) are two important linguistic variables for reading comprehension. In contrast, working memory (WM) is an essential cognitive variable for reading comprehension. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Morphology (Languages), Short Term Memory
Bartolome Jose Bazan Rios – ProQuest LLC, 2024
According to cognitive psychologists, consistent practice (i.e., tasks with a high degree of similarity) of a skill leads to the development of automaticity, with the degree of automatization being increased if the practice also involves exact repetition. Practice is skill specific, meaning that practicing one skill does not automatize related…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Executive Function, Listening Skills, Second Language Learning
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Mohamed Amin Mekheimer – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study re-examines the role of working memory (WM) in aural/oral comprehension among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) college students, building upon previous research (Aldosari & Mekheimer, 2018). The investigation aims to determine the predictive relationship between working memory span and both reading and listening comprehension…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Predictor Variables, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension
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Patdanai Puvacharoonkul; Pornapit Darasawang; Tanagrit Phangwiwat; Praewpiraya Wiwatphonthana; Sirawaj Itthipuripat – rEFLections, 2024
Cognitive control is a mental construct thought to be important in most cognitive tasks, including second language learning. Its functions are believed by many scholars to be mainly domain-general, with some transferability across linguistic and non-linguistic domains. Our study aims to investigate to what extent the domain-generality claim of…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Bilingualism, Executive Function, Second Language Learning
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Sedigheh Karimpour; Hossein Kargar Behbahani – European Journal of Education, 2025
As an alternative to conventional instruction and evaluation methods, dynamic assessment aims to promote language learning by utilising an interactive approach. As a subset of dynamic assessment, the interventionist approach to dynamic assessment focuses on mediation from implicit to explicit. In spite of its central role in language learning and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Verbs, Short Term Memory, Comparative Analysis
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Danning Sun; Zihan Chen; Shanhua Zhu – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2025
This study examines the referential context effect on second-language relative clause ambiguity resolution by proficient L1 Chinese learners who learn English as a foreign language (EFL) and investigates whether the ambiguity resolution process is constrained by individuals' working memory capacity (WMC). It presents a self-paced reading study and…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Context Effect, Ambiguity (Semantics), Form Classes (Languages)
Jonathan Edward Malone – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The tantalizing prospects of learning benefits from multimodal conditions on second language (L2) learning in general, and L2 vocabulary development in particular, have important implications. Indeed, opening a language learning app on any device provides the immediate experience of simultaneous input modalities, and a wide range of input types.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Reading Comprehension
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Yeu-Ting Liu; Hossein Nassaji; Wen-Ta Tseng – Language Teaching Research, 2024
In light of mixed findings in existing input enhancement research, Issa and Morgan-Short in a 2019 article urged researchers to compare the relative effects of input enhancement that taps into learners' attention to the external format of second language (L2) target forms (e.g. through capitalizing or boldfacing the forms) and input enhancement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, College Students, Universities
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