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One Size Fits All? Learning Conditions and Working Memory Capacity in "Ab Initio" Language Development
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Sanz, Cristina; Lin, Hui-Ju; Lado, Beatriz; Stafford, Catherine A.; Bowden, Harriet W. – Applied Linguistics, 2016
The article summarizes results from two experimental studies (N = 23, N = 21) investigating the extent to which working memory capacity (WMC) intervenes in "ab initio" language development under two pedagogical conditions [± grammar lesson + input-based practice + explicit feedback]. The linguistic target is the use of morphosyntax to…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Language Proficiency, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Learning Collocations: Do the Number of Collocates, Position of the Node Word, and Synonymy Affect Learning?
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Webb, Stuart; Kagimoto, Eve – Applied Linguistics, 2011
This study investigated the effects of three factors (the number of collocates per node word, the position of the node word, synonymy) on learning collocations. Japanese students studying English as a foreign language learned five sets of 12 target collocations. Each collocation was presented in a single glossed sentence. The number of collocates…
Descriptors: Semantics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure
Learning to Play, Playing to Learn: FL Learners as Multicompetent Language Users
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Pomerantz, Anne; Bell, Nancy D. – Applied Linguistics, 2007
In line with recent critiques of communicative language teaching (Byrnes and Maxim 2004; Byrnes 2006), this paper considers how instances of spontaneous, creative language play can afford access to a range of linguistic practices that are often devalued or ignored in classrooms. To this end, it examines how university students in an advanced…
Descriptors: Play, Semantics, Linguistics, Language Teachers