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Direct linkMoyer, Alene – Language Teaching, 2017
Learning a new sound system poses challenges of a social, psychological, and cognitive nature, but the learner's decisions are key to ultimate attainment. This presentation focuses on two essential concepts: CHOICE, or how one wants to sound in the target language; and LIMITS, or various challenges to one's goals vis-a-vis accent. Qualitative and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phonology, Pronunciation, Qualitative Research
Wen, Zhisheng; McNeill, Arthur; Mota, Mailce Borges – Language Teaching, 2014
Organized under the auspices of the "Language Learning" Roundtable Conference Grant (2012), this seminar aimed to provide an interactive forum for a group of second language acquisition (SLA) researchers with particular interests in cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics to discuss key theoretical and methodological issues in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Seminars, Second Language Learning, Psycholinguistics
Larsen-Freeman, Diane – Language Teaching, 2012
In this plenary address, I suggest that Complexity Theory has the potential to contribute a transdisciplinary theme to applied linguistics. Transdisciplinary themes supersede disciplines and spur new kinds of creative activity (Halliday 2001 [1990]). Investigating complex systems requires researchers to pay attention to system dynamics. Since…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Systems Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach, Second Language Learning
Read, John – Language Teaching, 2015
Students entering English-medium universities around the world come from diverse linguistic backgrounds and many find it difficult to cope with the language demands of their degree courses. This speech focuses first on the motivations for introducing what are known in Australia as post-entry language assessments (PELAs). I discuss in particular…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction
Nickerson, Catherine – Language Teaching, 2015
This talk is about finding "unity in diversity". I ask how we can best focus our research efforts and then design our teaching for those of us involved with teaching language for specific business purposes in the Asia Pacific region and the Middle East. In parts 1 and 2 of the presentation I discuss how we need to (i) refer to empirical…
Descriptors: Languages for Special Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Business Communication, Language Proficiency
O'Dowd, Elizabeth – Language Teaching, 2012
Following the No Child Left Behind Act (2001), which mandates standards-based accountability for the academic progress of all students, much attention has been given to integrating language and content instruction for English learners (ELs) in K-12 classrooms in the US. Although TESOL and other state-approved language proficiency standards…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Linguistics, Academic Achievement
