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Direct linkDeconinck, Julie; Boers, Frank; Eyckmans, June – Language Teaching Research, 2017
If known words can be defined psycholinguistically as "form-meaning mappings", the present article investigates whether prompting learners to evaluate whether the form of a new second language (L2) word fits its meaning generates "mapping elaborations" that aid recall. Thirty Dutch-speaking upper-intermediate learners of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Concept Mapping, Indo European Languages, Pretests Posttests
Gharibi, Khadijeh; Boers, Frank – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2017
This study investigates whether young heritage speakers, either simultaneous or sequential bilinguals, have limited vocabulary knowledge in their family language compared to matched monolingual counterparts and, if so, what factors help to account for this difference. These factors include age, age at emigration, length of emigration, frequency of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Stengers, Helene; Boers, Frank; Housen, Alex; Eyckmans, June – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2011
This paper investigates the extent to which productive use of formulaic sequences by intermediate students of two typologically different languages, i.e., English and Spanish, is associated with their oral proficiency in these languages. Previous research (e.g., Boers et al., "Language Teaching Research" 10: 245-261, 2006) has shown that…
Descriptors: Evidence, Second Language Learning, Language Patterns, English (Second Language)
Boers, Frank; Eyckmans, June; Kappel, Jenny; Stengers, Helene; Demecheleer, Murielle – Language Teaching Research, 2006
This study reports a small-scale experiment that was set up to estimate the extent to which (i) the use of formulaic sequences (standardized phrases such as collocations and idiomatic expressions) can help learners come across as proficient L2 speakers and (ii) an instructional method that emphasizes "noticing" of L2 formulaic sequences can help…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Language Patterns, Reading Materials
