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Bowen, Neil Evan Jon Anthony; Thomas, Nathan – Applied Linguistics, 2022
In the field of educational psychology, self-regulation is part of a well-established research paradigm that has been extensively applied to learning contexts. However, despite proposals highlighting its benefits, some researchers claim that its cross-pollination into applied linguistics has been slow. In their recent "Applied…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vandommele, Goedele; Van Gorp, Koen; Van den Branden, Kris; De Maeyer, Sven – Applied Linguistics, 2022
This study investigates the differential effects of a task-based inside-school intervention and an outside-school project intervention on the development of speaking skills of 56 beginner second language (L2)-learners. The study extends previous research by looking at development across multiple occasions instead of two (i.e., a pretest and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Indo European Languages, Intervention
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Peng, Hongying; Lowie, Wander; Jager, Sake – Applied Linguistics, 2022
Learners' self-initiated language learning with mobile technology occurring outside the classroom is often contextualized, heterogeneous, and idiosyncratic. In this study, we propose a time-series clustering methodology for researching informal mobile language learners' learning and development of another language, with a view to unravelling the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Independent Study, Teaching Methods
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Edmonds, Amanda; Gudmestad, Aarnes; Metzger, Thomas – Applied Linguistics, 2020
This investigation responds to the need for longitudinal data-driven research on additional-language (AL) acquisition by examining grammatical-gender marking among AL learners of French during a 21-month period, which included an academic year abroad (LANGSNAP corpus). The analysis of oral production consists of a generalized linear mixed model…
Descriptors: French, Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, Grammar
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Lilja, Niina; Piirainen-Marsh, Arja – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Using multimodal conversation analysis, this article analyses language learning as an "in situ" process during a teacher-assigned, experientially based pedagogical activity. The activity involved a three-part pedagogical structure, where learners first prepared for and then participated in real-life service encounters, and later…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods
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Perera, Kaushalya – Applied Linguistics, 2019
Memoirs and autobiographical writing on language learning provide perspectives on migration and residence in North America and Europe for the most part, where struggle and loss are some of the recurrent themes (Aneta Pavlenko 2001a; Besemeres 2004; Kinginger 2004a). An unaddressed aspect of foreign language learning remains the 'reverse'…
Descriptors: North Americans, Second Language Learning, Learning Experience, Females
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Polat, Nihat; Mahalingappa, Laura; Mancilla, Rae L. – Applied Linguistics, 2020
This longitudinal study examined growth patterns of written syntactic complexity of Turkish learners of English. Using a nonexperimental corpus of 852 writing samples by 284 English as a foreign language (EFL) learners over three semesters, the study addressed the following questions: which indices of syntactic complexity characterize the writing…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Fukuta, Junya – Applied Linguistics, 2016
The role of awareness has been under investigation in second language (L2) acquisition research for many years. Williams' study (2005) has attracted particular interest and has been actively reexamined from a variety of perspectives, and the replications and extensions of the research currently form a research horizon on the intersection of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Statistical Bias, Research Methodology
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Van Compernolle, Rémi A. – Applied Linguistics, 2019
This article discusses a sociocultural usage-based perspective on the development of sociolinguistic competence. Previous research has focused on learners' acquisition and use of alternative ways of 'saying the same thing' (i.e. native-like variation) in relation to study abroad, contact with native speakers, and pedagogy. Missing from the…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, French
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Bell, Philippa K. – Applied Linguistics, 2017
Do adults learn the same syntactic second language (L2) form explicitly and implicitly simultaneously during meaning-based exposure, and does the type of learning (explicit and/or implicit) affect subsequent performance. In this study, 81 anglophones completed comprehension tasks providing incidental exposure to a semi-artificial language (English…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), German
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López-Gopar, Mario E.; Schissel, Jamie L.; Leung, Constant; Morales, Julio – Applied Linguistics, 2021
This article involves the work of four language educators/researchers collaborating on an ongoing longitudinal multilingual participatory action research (PAR) project in a Bachelor of Arts (BA) language teaching program in Oaxaca, Mexico. Overall, this PAR project aims at the co-construction of social justice in ELT in Mexico. In particular, it…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Skehan, Peter – Applied Linguistics, 2015
This article presents a critical overview of research studies which link foreign language aptitude to grammar. It starts by covering fundamental issues--of the structure of aptitude and its measurement. It is argued that the concept of aptitude needs to be updated, and that clear linkages to second language acquisition processes need to be…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Teaching Methods, Age, Linguistic Theory
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Jakonen, Teppo; Morton, Tom – Applied Linguistics, 2015
Epistemics in interaction refers to how participants display, manage, and orient to their own and others' states of knowledge. This article applies recent conversation analytical work on epistemics to classrooms where language and content instruction are combined. It focuses on Epistemic Search Sequences (ESSs) through which students in peer…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis, Course Content
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Stafford, Catherine A. – Applied Linguistics, 2013
Vygotskian sociocultural theory of mind holds that language mediates thought. According to the theory, speech does not merely put completed thought into words; rather, it is a tool to refine thought as it evolves in real time. This study investigated from a sociocultural theory of mind perspective how nine beginning learners of Latin used private…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Sociocultural Patterns, Cognitive Processes
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Churchill, Eton – Applied Linguistics, 2008
This paper responds to calls for studies that investigate multiple types of word knowledge and the processes of word learning. Focusing on a single word, this three-month diary study describes the micro-development of an adult male's Japanese L2 lexical knowledge. In contrast to most L2 vocabulary acquisition studies, this study posits a dynamic…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Japanese, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development
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