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Derek N. Canning; Stuart McLean; Joseph P. Vitta – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Recent studies have shown that the frequency effect, although long used as a guide to word difficulty, fails to explain all variance in learner word knowledge. As such, a "more than frequency" conclusion has been offered to explain how lexical sophistication accounts for word difficulty. This study presents a multiple regression model of…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Vocabulary, College Students, Incidence
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Bedrettin Yazan; Ufuk Keles – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
In this dialogic article, we discuss the potential of autoethnography as a methodology to examine emotions in language education. We wrote this dialogue in such an 'organic' way that it reflects the snippet of our ongoing conversation around autoethnography. We did not have this dialogue in person; we just knew that we would be writing a dialogic…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Autobiographies, Research Methodology, Psychological Patterns
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Jie Zhang – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Chinese vocabulary is characterized by compound words composed of monosyllabic morphemes. Compounds sharing a common lexeme often exhibit polysemous meanings, forming a cognitive semantic network. Systematic instruction on these high-frequency compounds can help learners access their meanings and underlying structure, making learning more…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Verbs, Vocabulary, Schemata (Cognition)
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Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
A process of abstraction initiates the development of a theory of applied linguistics, beginning with the distinction between technical norm and technical fact. Each applied linguistic intervention has a normative dimension and a factual interface with its users. The second step is to abstract the qualifying technical modality of these artefacts,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Applied Linguistics, Intervention, Language Research
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Foung, Dennis; Kohnke, Lucas – ReCALL, 2023
Replication studies have become an emerging line of research in recent decades, including in computer-assisted language learning (CALL). Exact replication, which closely follows a study's protocol, is rare as it is hard to recreate results without establishing a highly controlled environment. However, using data available online, we were able to…
Descriptors: Replication (Evaluation), Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Jiang, Lianjiang; Yu, Shulin; Zhou, Nan; Xu, Yiqin – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2023
While there is no lack of studies on the major approaches to L2 writing instruction (i.e., the product-, process-, and genre-oriented approaches), it remains unclear whether and how these theory-based approaches have been translated into students' experiences of L2 writing pedagogy. This study examined students' experiences of L2 writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Zhou, Yanqiong; Lin, Jiaxin; Yang, Zhuojun – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
Despite the important role of strategies in language learning, they have not been afforded much attention in the development of language proficiency scales. This study, situated in a nationwide project of developing China's Standards of English language ability, presents in detail the development of a reading strategic competence scale for Chinese…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Foreign Countries, Reading Strategies
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Xu, Jinfen; Zhang, Shanshan – Modern Language Journal, 2023
The affective turn in the second language (L2) acquisition literature has witnessed a shift from the periphery to a clear focus on emotions. Nevertheless, this shift tends to examine emotion separately from cognition. Vygotsky's "perezhivanie" provides a theoretical lens to explore the inextricable interconnectedness of emotion and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Emotional Response, Japanese, Language Acquisition
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Jiang, Shang; Siyanova-Chanturia, Anna – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Frequency and proficiency have been found to play an important role in second language (L2) phrasal processing. However, existing research has largely focused on English and other European languages, with other commonly used languages, such as Chinese, being largely disregarded. To fill this gap, we carried out two experiments to investigate how…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Chinese, Grammar
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Wang, Tianyi; Fisher, Linda – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2023
While interest in multilingualism is growing, in the field of motivation little research has examined the role played by learners' multilingual selves in constructing their motivation to learn a foreign language other than English (LOTE). Based on a dynamic model of the L2 Motivational Self System, this study explores how Chinese undergraduates'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Learning Motivation, Multilingualism
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Silvers, Stephen Mark – English Teaching Forum, 2023
Fun facts--facts that are interesting, unusual, and often little-known--are a popular form of entertainment throughout the world. There are countless books, TV quiz shows (Jeopardy!), board games (Trivial Pursuit), and museums (Ripley's Believe It or Not!) dedicated to trivia and the unusual that fascinate people of all ages. Short oral…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Botes, Elouise; Greiff, Samuel – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
The present study is among the first to investigate how three foreign language (FL) emotions, namely FL enjoyment (FLE), anxiety (FLCA), and boredom (FLB), are related to each other. It is the first study to consider how the three FL emotions are shaped by one learner-internal variable (attitude toward the FL), by two perceived teacher behaviors…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes
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Nagle, Charlie L.; Huensch, Amanda; Zárate-Sández, Germán – Modern Language Journal, 2023
Although current approaches to second language (L2) pronunciation underscore that instruction should concentrate on pronunciation features that help learners be more intelligible (and not necessarily more native like), there is little empirical evidence as to what those features are, especially in languages other than English. To address this gap,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Spanish, Phonetics, Intelligibility
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Henry, Nick – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
This study investigates whether the use of prosodic cues during instruction facilitates the processing of German accusative case markers. Two groups of third semester L1 English learners of L2 German completed Processing Instruction (PI) with aural input: Learners in the PI+P group heard sentences that included focused prosodic cues; learners in…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, Cues, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Arslan, Görkem; Çifci, Selcen – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
Listening skill, which is known to be in a mutual relationship with reading aloud, reading comprehension, and pronunciation, manifests itself in the form of discriminative listening skill in the case of true beginners who have started to learn a foreign language. The aim of this research is to present learning outcomes aimed at improving the…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Listening Skills, Skill Development
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