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Download full textTeimouri, Yasser; Sudina, Ekaterina; Plonsky, Luke – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
As a personality trait, second language (L2) grit--a combination of perseverance and passion for L2 learning--has recently been proposed as a meaningful predictor of learners' motivational behavior and L2 achievement. The results of a growing body of empirical studies carried out in various L2 contexts have substantiated the power of L2 grit in…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Resilience (Psychology)
Direct linkThothathiri, Malathi; Braiuca, Maria C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Previous studies using artificial languages suggest that sentence production can be guided by verb-specific as well as verb-general statistics present in the language input. Here we investigated whether the statistical properties of ongoing input in the speakers' native language systematically affected their sentence production. Three experiments…
Descriptors: Verbs, Cues, Semantics, Cognitive Mapping
Nelson, Timothy S.; Albakry, Mohammed – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2021
The availability of corpora has greatly strengthened the possibilities of identifying high-frequency lexical items in a more systematic and objective manner than has typically been used for vocabulary instruction. This article adopts a corpus-based approach to accommodate the vocabulary instructional needs of students enrolled in university…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Vocabulary Development, Academic Language, Word Frequency
Jusoh, Zuraini; Said, Rozita Radhiah; Kiram, Norazlina Hj. Mohd – International Journal of Language Education, 2021
Awareness of the career to be pursued can be present as early as childhood and can vary according to knowledge and interest. Most of today's children are more focused on achieving excellence in education, but still vague in the career that will be pursued. This situation persisted when they continued their studies at higher education and they…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Choice, Knowledge Level, Indonesian Languages
Davis, E. Emory; Landau, Barbara – Language Learning and Development, 2021
Perception verbs and mental verbs have significant overlap in their syntax and semantics; both reference mental representations when taking embedded clauses, as in "I see that Maria was here" and "I think that Maria was here." Some have suggested that perception is more accessible for young children than mental states, raising…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Phrase Structure, Perception
Salimpour, Saeed; Bartlett, Sophie; Fitzgerald, Michael T.; McKinnon, David H.; Cutts, K. Ross; James, C. Renee; Miller, Scott; Danaia, Lena; Hollow, Robert P.; Cabezon, Sergio; Faye, Michel; Tomita, Akihiko; Max, Charles; de Korte, Michael; Baudouin, Cyrille; Birkenbauma, Daina; Kallery, Maria; Anjos, Sara; Wu, Qixuan; Chu, Hye-eun; Slater, Eileen; Ortiz-Gil, Amelia – Research in Science Education, 2021
Astronomy is considered by many to be a gateway science owing to its ability to inspire curiosity in everyone irrespective of age, culture, or general inclination towards science. Currently, where there is a global push to get more students engaged in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, astronomy provides an invaluable conduit to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Science Curriculum
Hirch, R. Roz – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2021
The following interview was conducted with Catherine Elder in spring of 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. Cathie has had a varied career in language testing, including work at universities in Australia and New Zealand and at the Language Testing Resource Center in Melbourne. In this interview, Cathie shares some highlights of her somewhat…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Testing, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
Chan, Hang – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2021
The current study considers the notion that English textbooks produced for different markets are likely to manifest different pedagogical emphases. The study begins the research context by contemplating possible similarities and differences between English textbooks produced in two neighbouring markets, Hong Kong (HK) and the People's Republic of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Phrase Structure
Takkaç Tulgar, Aysegül – International Journal of Listening, 2021
Studies in language education have mainly been carried out either on target language as a second or a foreign language. However, there are not enough studies on second language and foreign language education in the same setting. This comparative case study investigated the attitudes of two language learner groups toward listening based on their…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Students, College Students, Public Colleges
Montkhongtham, Napanant – rEFLections, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic, has greatly affected the lives of everyone. One major concern during this period has been that of communication including content dealing with possibilities and ideology concerning freedom. This study aims to analyze the application of if-conditionals expressing options and possibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic using…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Form Classes (Languages), Freedom
Khalifa, Elsadig Mohamed – Dinamika Ilmu, 2021
The present paper addresses the attitudes of Saudi students toward using English dictionaries at Albaha University. A sample of 64 English majors in the College of Science and Arts in Almandaq took part in this study. A descriptive quantitative approach was implemented in this study. A 24-item questionnaire was applied in this study to collect the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Dictionaries, English (Second Language)
Hayes-Harb, Rachel; Barrios, Shannon – Language Teaching, 2021
We provide an exhaustive review of studies in the relatively new domain of research on the influence of orthography on second language (L2) phonological acquisition. While language teachers have long recognized the importance of written input--in addition to spoken input--on learners' development, until this century there was very little…
Descriptors: Phonology, Second Language Learning, Linguistic Input, Language Teachers
Vandenberghe, Bert; Perez, Maribel Montero; Reynvoet, Bert; Desmet, Piet – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
This study combines explicit (pen-and-paper) and sensitive (time-pressured) measures to gauge the impact of three instructional interventions (contextualized input with meaning-focused activities, contextualized input with word-focused activities, and decontextualized input with word-focused exercises) on the learning of 20 L2 French target verbs.…
Descriptors: French, Verbs, Linguistic Input, Intervention
Hammine, Madoka – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2021
The emergence of Indigenous language revitalization seeks to address historical domination over Indigenous peoples and to recover the loss of ancestral languages as embedded in Indigenous knowledge systems. This paper draws from long-term linguistic ethnographic research on one of the Indigenous Ryukyuan languages: Yaeyaman. I highlight one…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Language Maintenance, Indigenous Populations, Ethnography
Sinha, Tara Shankar – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2021
A considerable amount of research has been undertaken on the use of corpora in teaching English as a second or foreign language. Although there is a growing body of research on the effectiveness of corpus-based vocabulary teaching, there are few studies that have explicitly examined EFL learners' perception of corpus application in vocabulary…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
