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Melina Porto; Michalinos Zembylas – Modern Language Journal, 2024
The purpose of this article is to examine the ethical tensions and considerations that arise in the world language classroom from using pedagogies of discomfort. Although pedagogies of discomfort have mostly been seen through a positive lens in the literature for engaging students with difficult issues in the classroom, there are ethical concerns,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Ethics
Charlie Nagle; Phil Hiver – Language Teaching, 2024
An important shift in language learning research is the understanding that pronunciation instruction is necessary to ensure learners' balanced development in pronunciation and second language (L2) speech. Research focusing on understanding what types of pronunciation instruction are effective and what makes them most effective has grown…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Second Language Instruction, Research
Juup Stelma; Achilleas Kostoulas – TESOL Journal, 2024
This article revisits complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) and provides a new synthesis that, the authors argue, may empower language teachers. The particular focus is on the interplay between change and stability in complex dynamic systems, including language teaching and learning. The article identifies four key dynamical properties of complex…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Teacher Empowerment, Language Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Flavia P. D'Souza; Padmanabha C. H. – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2024
Language is crucial for adapting to society, and learning different languages enhances human efficiency. Learning a second language involves acquiring any language in addition to one's native language. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has two meanings, generally, it describes the process of learning a second language, and more specifically, it…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Acquisition, Learning Theories, Grammar
Jose A. Mompean – ELT Journal, 2024
This article analyses how ChatGPT may be used in L2 pronunciation teaching and learning, especially when explicit pronunciation instruction is integrated into a communicative approach to language teaching. The possible use of ChatGPT for production practice, listening practice, and obtaining explanations and examples of target L2 features is…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Technology Uses in Education
Fakieh Alrabai; Jean-Marc Dewaele – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2023
This paper presents a critical analysis of the EMPATHICS model of language learner well-being proposed by Oxford (2016) as a prerequisite first step to validate this model. The analysis was guided by the theories in the field of language learning and teaching as well as by some elaborations and suggestions originally made by Rebecca Oxford…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Models, Well Being, Second Language Instruction
Beccia, Ashley – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2023
Identifying changing patterns of stability and variability is crucial when examining second language development (SLD) from a complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) perspective (Larsen-Freeman, 2020). By studying attractor states, or recurrent patterns of stability, light can be shed on the underlying dynamics of a complex dynamic system (van Geert…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Misconceptions, Systems Approach
Daniel, Bethany – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
World language (WL) education has the potential to shift perspectives toward equity. To accomplish this, the field must consider how it is situated within societal systems that perpetuate racial inequity. This systematic historical analysis of literature examined how the term race and related terms appeared historically in a set of primary…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, World Literature, Periodicals
Suresh Canagarajah – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
In this brief forum article, I draw from the disciplinary orientation of linguistic anthropology to discuss how a collection of linguistic and semiotic resources gets "enregistered" as the "language" for specific communicative activities. Enregisterment is an ongoing social and ideological process whereby a semiotic corpus gets…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Decolonization
Jiang, Canzhong; Wen, Xu – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has benefited quite a lot from Construction Grammar. Most of the previous SLA researches adopting a constructionist approach have been primarily engaged in issues pertinent to the relevance of construction in SLA, the process of second language (L2) construction learning, and factors affecting L2 construction…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
Xiang bin Qiu; Cheng Shan; Jin Yao; Qing ke Fu – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
In recent years, an increasing number of teachers and researchers have used virtual reality (VR) to enhance English as a foreign language (EFL) learning, but the learning effects they found varied. Because of these differences, we conducted a meta-analysis. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of VR-based EFL learning methods with…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Technology Uses in Education
Steven G. McCafferty – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Vygotsky chose consciousness as a foundation for his approach to psychology, although it took several iterations to arrive at his final conception of a dynamic, semantic system, which included not only thought and language, the subject of most of his work up to that point, but how we refract our experience of the world through personhood as well.…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories, Semantics, Psychology
Shetye, Shamini – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2023
Second language development can be viewed as a complex and dynamic process in which learners follow non-linear trajectories and develop their language over a period of time (Larsen-Freeman, 2006). Intrinsic to the view of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST), a system is composed of hierarchical, interdependent subcomponents (learner, learner…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
Massaro, Abby – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2023
From a complex dynamic systems (CDST) perspective, language is understood as a dynamic system comprised of subsystems that change and develop over time in response to learner-internal and -external factors (Verspoor et al., 2008). Accordingly, language development is seen as a process responsive to the dynamic interaction between the learner and…
Descriptors: Generalization, Interlanguage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
An, Shan – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2023
Adopting Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) is a testament to the revolutionary and evolutionary advancement in theory and empirical practice in the field. CDST is revolutionary for the fact that it warrants systems thinking of SLA phenomena that breaks the chain of dichotomous conceptualization on vital…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Systems Approach