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Huang, Becky H. – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2016
Early foreign language (FL) programmes have grown rapidly worldwide in the past two decades, resting on the assumption that "earlier is better" for learning a FL. However, the majority of empirical studies that investigated the "earlier is better" hypothesis were conducted in naturalistic immersion contexts. Given the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Age, Immersion Programs
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Dekeyser, Robert; Botana, Goretti Prieto – Applied Linguistics, 2015
The past two decades have seen ample debate about processing instruction (PI) and its various components. In this article, we first describe what PI consists of and then address three questions: about the role of explicit information (EI) in PI, the difference between PI and teaching that incorporates production-based (PB) practice, and various…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Brown, Dan – Language Teaching Research, 2016
Research on corrective feedback (CF), a central focus of second language acquisition (SLA), has increasingly examined how teachers employ CF in second language classrooms. Lyster and Ranta's (1997) seminal study identified six types of CF that teachers use in response to students' errors (recast, explicit correction, elicitation, clarification…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Brown, Alexis Carmela – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2016
Literacy and language development is a central aspect of educational theory and practice. One area of literacy and language research that has had a lot of attention is dialogic teaching (Bakhtin, 1984; Freire, 1970; Murphey, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009; Reznitskaya & Gregory, 2013). However, there is limited research on…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods, Discourse Analysis, Video Technology
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Han, ZhaoHong; Park, Eun Sung; Combs, Charles – Applied Linguistics, 2008
The input enhancement hypothesis proposed by Sharwood Smith (1991, 1993) has stimulated considerable research over the last 15 years. This article reviews the research on textual enhancement of input (TE), an area where the majority of input enhancement studies have aggregated. Methodological idiosyncrasies are the norm of this body of research.…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Teaching Methods, Cues, Grammar
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Lightbown, Patsy M. – Applied Linguistics, 2000
Following a review of the language teaching practices of the past 50 years, reassess ten second language acquisition (SLA) research generalizations in light of the considerable amount of classroom-based SLA research that has been carried out since 1985, especially that which has addressed pedagogical concerns in primary and secondary school…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization, Language Research