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Natalia Sletova – ProQuest LLC, 2023
"How can teachers help students improve their second language (L2) speaking accuracy?" This is a question that most L2 educators ask themselves every day. Although L2 writing is a popular topic among Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers, the consideration that L2 writing has the potential to act as a scaffold for L2 speaking…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Writing Skills, Speech Communication
Marie-Josée Bisson – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Research suggests new foreign language (FL) words are learned more easily if their phonology follows the phonotactic rules of the native language. Very little is known, however, about the impact of orthography on FL learning. This study investigated the cognitive mechanisms supporting the learning of words with familiar and unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Phonology
Sletova, Natalia; Isurin, Ludmila – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
The relationship between written and spoken recall (SR) has primarily been analyzed with English-speaking monolinguals. Written recall (WR) has been reported more accurate due to higher cognitive load and attention required to produce a text. This study examined the written and spoken text recall relationship in L2 learners of Russian and analyzed…
Descriptors: Correlation, Written Language, Speech Communication, Accuracy
Lightbown, Patsy Martin – Modern Language Journal, 2019
This special issue contains reports of research on a variety of variables that are hypothesized to have an impact on how practice affects language learning. This includes spacing of practice opportunities, the provision of feedback, training working memory, and oral versus written input. Each study is complex and clearly contextualized within the…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Short Term Memory
Leong, Che Kan; Shum, Mark Shiu Kee; Tai, Chung Pui; Ki, Wing Wah; Zhang, Dongbo – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2019
This study examined the contribution of the constructs of orthographic processing (orthographic choice and orthographic choice in context), syntactic processing (grammaticality and sentence integrity), and verbal working memory (two reading span indicators) to written Chinese composition (narration, explanation, and argumentation) in 129…
Descriptors: Syntax, Grammar, Sentences, Verbal Communication
Lee, Minjin; Révész, Andrea – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
This study investigated the extent to which individual differences in working memory (WM) mediate the effects of captions with or without textual enhancement on attentional allocation and L2 grammatical development, and whether L2 development is influenced by WM memory in the absence of captions. We employed a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest…
Descriptors: Role, Short Term Memory, Grammar, Second Language Learning
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
Harrison, Gina L. – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée, 2021
A collection of cognitive, linguistic, and spelling measures were administered to third-grade English L1 and L2 learners. To capture formative assessments of children's developing mental graphemic representations (MGRs), spelling errors in isolation were subjected to analysis across three metrics: (1) Phonological constrained; (2)…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), Scoring, Spelling, Oral Language
Leong, Che Kan; Tse, Shek Kam; Loh, Ka Yee; Ki, Wing Wah – Reading Psychology, 2011
Orthographic knowledge in Chinese was hypothesized to affect elementary Chinese text comprehension (four essays) by 80 twelve-year-old ethnic alphasyllabary language users compared with 74 native Chinese speakers at similar reading level. This was tested with two rapid automatized naming tasks; two working memory tasks; three orthographic…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Sino Tibetan Languages, Urdu, Chinese
Ridgway, Anthony James – International Journal of English Studies, 2009
The inner voice- we all know what it is because we all have it and use it when we are thinking or reading, for example. Little work has been done on it in our field, with the notable exception of Brian Tomlinson, but presumably it must be a cognitive phenomenon which is of great importance in thinking, language learning, and reading in a foreign…
Descriptors: Written Language, Second Languages, Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning
Grigorenko, Elena L., Ed.; Mambrino, Elisa, Ed.; Preiss, David D., Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
This book captures the diversity and richness of writing as it relates to different forms of abilities, skills, competencies, and expertise. Psychologists, educators, researchers, and practitioners in neighboring areas are interested in exploring how writing develops and in what manner this development can be fostered, but they lack a handy,…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Written Language, Literacy, Child Development

Hsieh, Liang-Tsu Grace – Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Investigated the effects of writing systems on Chinese subjects' decoding strategies in both Chinese and English. Results suggest that both writing systems and learning environment are significant factors to subjects' application of graphic, phonological, or semantic strategies in decoding Chinese and English words. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Chinese, Decoding (Reading), English (Second Language), Environmental Influences

Chu-Chang, Mae; Loritz, Donald J. – 1976
Three main issues relating to the question of silent speech in reading are considered: (1) How do Chinese speakers process Chinese ideographs in short-term memory? (2) How is Chinese students' learning of written English affected by the transition to an alphabetic language? (3) Are the strategies for encoding written words in short-term memory…
Descriptors: Alphabets, Cantonese, Chinese, Cognitive Processes