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Dwight 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
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Huixian Li; Yongyan Zheng – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) has significantly reshaped our understanding of second language learning and teaching across the micro, meso, and macro levels for several decades since its systematic introduction by Larsen-Freeman and Cameron (2008). This study conducts a comprehensive review of empirical research on second language learning…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Raisa Harju-Autti; Marita Mäkinen – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The number of immigrant students in Finland is increasing; thus, this qualitative case study investigates ways of providing targeted support measures for recently arrived Finnish language learners (RAFLLs) in Finnish lower secondary education. Focusing on linguistic responsiveness, the teaching arrangements and support measures are examined not…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Municipalities, Immigrants
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Yanhong Ma – SAGE Open, 2025
Research on language motivation has tended to focus on the phenomena of demotivation and remotivation in the English classroom. This study utilized Q methodology to analyze the dynamics of demotivation and remotivation among 15 Chinese university students during their English learning process from primary school to senior middle school. Informed…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Student Motivation, Q Methodology, College Students
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Nga Huynh Hong Ngo; Lap Quoc Trinh – Educational Process: International Journal, 2025
Background/purpose: Although studies on teacher research are becoming more common in English language teaching (ELT), there is still a lack of understanding regarding how university lecturers shape their research identities. Using Ecological systems theory and Self-determination theory, this study examines the construction of research identities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Rulyansah, Afib; Hidayat, Muhammad Thamrin; Rihlah, Jauharotur; Shari, Destita; Mariati, Pance – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2023
Teachers are unclear how to adapt pedagogical techniques in digital play to enhance language development for young children in the digital era and with the changes in early childhood education. The purpose of this study is to analyze how teachers understand the development and teaching of early childhood language in early grades with digital game…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Digital Literacy
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Ashley Beccia; Wai Man Adrienne Lew; ZhaoHong Han – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
In the field of applied linguistics, Diane Larsen-Freeman is widely recognized, among her numerous contributions, as the originator of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST). Over the years since her seminal publication (Larsen-Freeman, 1997), CDST has evolved into a meta-theory that guides the field's thinking on a variety of developmental…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Applied Linguistics
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Sara Sadat Hosseini; Hassan Soleimani; Fatemeh Hemmati; Jafar Afshinfar – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2025
From the complex dynamic systems theory perspective, evaluating CALL pedagogy involves miscellaneous variables. It seems the ecosystem of the CALL environment necessitates an array of extralinguistic (Ecolinguistically situated) issues to be considered in any appraisal of the CALL milieu. To this end, this paper aims to develop and validate a…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Factor Analysis
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Gang Wang; Soheila Soleimanzadeh; Majid Elahi Shirvan – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
As a social-interactional positive behavior, the flow of compassion (i.e., selfcompassion, compassion for others, and compassion from others), which refers to sensitivity to suffering in self and others with a commitment to try to alleviate and prevent it, has yet to be investigated in a highly social-interactional context such as foreign language…
Descriptors: Altruism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Beccia, Ashley – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2021
Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT) is purportedly the only L2 pedagogy rooted in SLA theory and research and is unique in its psycholinguistic, ecological and pedagogical validity. Theoretical entities such as Processability Theory (Pienemann & Lenzing, 2020), the cognitive-interactionist approach (Gass & Mackey, 2020), and emergentism…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Marzuki, Dony – AILA Review, 2023
This study investigated phase transitions in EFL students' speech fluency development using a complex dynamic systems perspective. Two students with different proficiency levels were selected from an intact speaking class. These students learned and practiced specific strategies to improve their speech fluency. Phase transitions were analyzed…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Hiver, Phil; Whiteside, Zach; Sánchez Solarte, Ana C.; Kim, Claudia J. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
In language teaching, current understanding of complex classroom contexts and post-methods L2 pedagogy encourages us to adopt a situated and dynamic perspective of the language classroom. Exemplary teaching in such contexts is characterized by critical moment to moment decision-making for building L2 classroom environments that are engaging,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Syed, Hassan; Memon, Shumaila; Chachar, Zulfiqar Ali; Zameer, Sharique; Shah, Tanweer – Research in Education, 2022
Willingness to communicate in a second language (L2 WTC) is a speaker's voluntary engagement in communication using a target language. WTC has undergone several conceptualisations over the past twenty years or so. The aim of the current article is to present a narrative review of the major conceptual developments in research on L2 WTC. First, the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Usage, Communication (Thought Transfer)
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Tîrnovan, Daniela – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2023
This investigation of translanguaging is grounded upon the ubiquitous theme of "structures" explicitly and implicitly found in the translanguaging literature. Through this theme, this paper begins by providing a novel theoretical framework followed by considering the need for translanguaging (e.g., education's growth of multilingualism;…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Matthews, Blair – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Language classrooms are complex systems, but theory often simplifies these processes making researching effectiveness difficult. Assemblage theory -- a theory of complexity in the social sciences -- allows us to examine complexity in the language classroom. In this paper, I present an account of the language classroom that captures the complexity,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Social Systems, Systems Approach
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