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Direct linkDwight Atkinson; Jorge Mejía-Laguna; Amable Custodio Ribeiro; Marco Cappellini; Hayriye Kayi-Aydar; Wander Lowie – Modern Language Journal, 2025
This complex article has six subsections. Following a brief introduction, one team of three co-authors and three single authors present compact statements of their distinctive individual research perspectives on second language acquisition and teaching (SLA/T): Atkinson, Mejía-Laguna, and Ribeiro offer a sociocognitive perspective; Cappellini…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
Dao, Phung; Nguyen, Mai Xuan Nhat Chi; Duong, Phuong-Thao; Tran-Thanh, Vu – Modern Language Journal, 2021
This study investigated the impact of synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) mode and familiarity with partners on learner engagement in second-language task-based interaction, and whether learner engagement is linked to subsequent joint-written-text quality. Ninety-eight Vietnamese learners of English were assigned into (±) familiar…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Task Analysis
Higgins, Christina; Ponte, Eva – Modern Language Journal, 2017
This article explores the identities of a group of elementary teachers who participated in a professional development (PD) project on multilingual language learners. We study how the participating teachers drew on different aspects of their identities to respond to encouragement to increase their attention to students' diverse multilingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Self Concept, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
Request Modification in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication: The Role of Focused Instruction
Cunningham, D. Joseph – Modern Language Journal, 2016
The pairing of telecollaboration and focused instruction can lead to measurable gains in second language learners' pragmatic competence (Belz & Vyatkina, 2005, 2008; Vyatkina & Belz, 2006). This article examines speech act production in telecollaborative exchange, focusing on the requesting behavior of American learners of German for…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Yilmaz, Yucel – Modern Language Journal, 2011
Previous research on synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC) has shown that SCMC interaction could draw learners' attention to form in ways that are similar to face-to-face interaction. However, the role of task type in focusing learners' attention on form has not been widely researched. In a repeated-measures design, this study…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Computer Mediated Communication, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Blake, Christopher – Modern Language Journal, 2009
Although a number of studies have reported on the positive effects of Internet chats in the second language classroom, to the best of my knowledge no studies to date have examined the effect of text-based chats on oral fluency development. This exploratory study addressed the above question by examining the oral fluency development of 34 English…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Oral Language, Language Fluency, Interaction
