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Download full textJoshua Wedlock; Christopher Binnie – TESL-EJ, 2025
Although research indicates that deliberate practice is indispensable for achieving high levels of proficiency and expertise in a range of disparate fields, this type of practice has largely been overlooked in the second language acquisition literature. To bridge this gap, and advocating for a more intentional and goal-directed approach to second…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Practices, Decision Making
Direct linkChi-Duc Nguyen – TESOL Journal, 2025
The field of vocabulary instruction has witnessed the emergence of three models that operationalize the construct of elaborate processing and thus help predict the effectiveness of vocabulary learning activities: Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH), Involvement Load Hypothesis Plus (ILH Plus), and Technique Feature Analysis (TFA). However, no…
Descriptors: Models, Predictor Variables, Vocabulary Development, Achievement Gains
Syed Abdul Manan – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2025
Responding to globalisation, neoliberalism, and its attendant imperatives (e.g. internationalisation, economic competitiveness), Kazakhstan, like many other countries, introduced a trilingual policy and English medium instruction (EMI) reforms in schools. Research on EMI suggests that purported affordances aside, EMI can also entail potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Educational Policy
Hongyu Lin; Ruiling Deng; Wanshu Zhou; Qi Jiang – European Journal of Education, 2025
This study examined the interrelationships between e-learning, academic self-efficacy (ASE), academic motivation (AM) and academic performance (AP) among English language learners as foreign language (EFL) students in 2024. Despite the growing use of e-learning in educational settings, there is a limited understanding of its relationships with…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Academic Achievement, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Susan Parks; Sabrina Priego; Tony Jenniss; Laurence Capus – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2025
Purpose: Most research on tandem language learning (TLL) has involved university contexts . To contribute to the paucity of research in school settings, this study focuses on a high school teacher's attempt at setting up an ESL-FSL exchange in a Canadian intranational context. To better understand the complexity of innovation, the process is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Teachers, High School Teachers
Jordão, Clarissa?Menezes – ELT Journal, 2023
This article starts from a comment on my locus of enunciation (i.e., the context from which I?speak), a key element of decoloniality as a means of resisting the idea of disembodied knowledge or neutrality promoted by modernity/coloniality. I?then proceed to explain how I?understand the entanglement of modernity and coloniality and why we need to…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Decolonization, Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning
Brown, Violet A.; Strand, Julia F. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: In the last decade, psychology and other sciences have implemented numerous reforms to improve the robustness of our research, many of which are based on increasing transparency throughout the research process. Among these reforms is the practice of preregistration, in which researchers create a time-stamped and uneditable document before…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Research, Oral Language, Word Recognition
Garcia, Valerie; Pineault, Caitlyn; Bryfonski, Lara – Modern Language Journal, 2023
This mixed-methods study explores the efficacy of a multidimensional identity measurement tool that aims to represent the diverse language experiences of heritage language learners (HLLs) and heritage language speakers (HLSs). Drawing on the thematic commonalities across 13 definitions of HLLs, a questionnaire was developed to capture age of…
Descriptors: Native Language, Heritage Education, Cultural Background, Family Influence
Canault, Mélanie; Yamaguchi, Naomi; Kern, Sophie – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Cross-linguistic studies describing the syllabic structures of babbling productions agree on the high prevalence of the CV structure, but few have addressed the other types of syllables emerging during this pre-linguistic stage. However, studying the evolution of the distribution of syllabic structures during babbling would make it possible to…
Descriptors: French, Syllables, Language Acquisition, Child Language
Paul Meara – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This paper reports a bibliometric analysis of two small data sets: a set of 34 papers that make up "The Routledge handbook of vocabulary studies" (Webb, 2020) and a set of papers dealing with second language (L2) vocabulary research taken from a single journal "Frontiers in Psychology." Bibliometric maps based on author…
Descriptors: Guides, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Mohammed Salem Alshehri – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The efficacy of the "integrated approach," which calls for the simultaneous integration of two varieties in teaching Arabic as a second language (L2), has not yet been rigorously examined, and the very few available studies suffer from many methodological limitations. The current study sought to bridge this gap in the literature by…
Descriptors: Arabic, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency, Accuracy
Hyojin Jeong; Robert DeKeyser – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study examined the development of automaticity in processing L2 collocations, and the roles of L1 collocational knowledge and practice conditions in the development process. Korean learners of English were assigned to one of two practice conditions (practice in identical or varied contexts). The learning gains for word combinations with and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Cognitive Processes, Korean
Cecilia del Carmen Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purpose: Situated within a complex social-political and developmental context marked by racialization and identity formation, this research aims to illuminate the nuanced ways Latinx youth navigate their bilingual experience amidst varying educational models and linguistic environments. The overarching goal of this dissertation is to investigate…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Language Attitudes, Immersion Programs, Bilingualism
Jinhyun Cho – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
This article examines the institutional and market treatment of the profession of interpreting in the English-monolingual context of Australia. Based on qualitative interview methods with 67 healthcare interpreters in Australia, the study aims to explore the impact of the linguistic hierarchies in favour of English on the financial and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, English, English (Second Language)
Noam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
