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Joshua Matthews; Devrim Yilmaz – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
The concept of noticing, which emphasizes the role of attention and awareness in language learning, has exerted a strong influence on second language acquisition (SLA) theory and practice. The current research analyzes instances of noticing evident across a 26-week period as the first author, an absolute beginner, was taught Turkish by the second…
Descriptors: Turkish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vignettes
Lichtman, Karen; VanPatten, Bill – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Stephen Krashen developed Monitor Theory--a group of hypotheses explaining second language acquisition with implications for language teaching. As the L2 scholarly community began considering what requirements theories should meet, Monitor Theory was widely criticized and dismissed, along with its teaching…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Teaching Methods
Pan, Junlan; Zhang, Yuyang; Zhang, Wen – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
The current replication study aims to examine the effects of learners' attention to lexical and grammatical forms on meaning comprehension while listening to a passage in Spanish. The registered protocol and materials in the aural mode from Morgan-Short et al.'s (2018) multisite replication study were used, with first language (L1) Chinese-second…
Descriptors: Grammar, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
York, James; Poole, Frederick J.; deHaan, Jonathan W. – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
In this paper, we argue that current research on games in language education, predominantly framed as "digital game-based language learning" (DGBLL), is lacking details regarding the role of teachers, or more precisely, the verbalization of the pedagogical underpinnings, scaffolds, and techniques teachers use to successfully integrate…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Teaching Methods, Game Based Learning, Second Language Learning
Shintaku, Kayo – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Due to its accessibility and popularity, anime has been explored as a motivation for learning Japanese and as a pedagogical tool linking Japanese-as-a-foreign-language (JFL) literacy practices inside and outside of the classroom. However, JFL learners' actual practices in anime-mediated self-directed learning have not been fully investigated.…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Klimanova, Liudmila; Hellmich, Emily A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
Culture in the teaching and learning of foreign languages tends to be stereotypical and monolithic, marginalizing the diversity of local cultures and practices and resulting in a monocultural and monolingual bias. Expanding on the ACTFL Cultures and Comparisons Standards, the current article presents the MAPS model for Exploring Local Cultures…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Cultural Awareness, Teaching Methods
Meritan, Camille; Mroz, Aurore – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
Developing intelligible pronunciation is an important goal for language learners. Although it can be fostered through explicit instruction in communicative-based courses, instructors need practical solutions to address their learners' pronunciation individually. This one-semester quasi-experimental mixed methods study of 60 Generation Z novice…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, French, Reflection
Wheeler, Holly; Kang, Okim – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Listener background variables have been recognized as potential contributors to language evaluation bias. This continuum of trait-irrelevant factors creates implications from the L2 classroom to integration in the target language community. This study examined how L2 Spanish learners' listener background factors including ethnicity, heritage…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Amgott, Natalie; Gorham, Julia A. – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
In recent years, research in multimodality has established the benefits of using multiple semiotic modes like image, sound, and text in digital second language (L2) communication. However, researchers have yet to investigate how L2 learners make meaning through embodied modes--or gestures and facial expressions. Grounded in the social semiotic…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
York, James – Foreign Language Annals, 2023
This article introduces an empirical study of "Connected Learning" in a Japanese EFL classroom context, instantiated through the Bridging Activities pedagogical framework. Students considered their interests, made groups, and joined Reddit communities. Self-selected texts were then analyzed with rigorous teacher mediation. Students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Educational Practices, Learning Processes
Gurzynski-Weiss, Laura; Coulter-Kern, Mackenzie; Kuntz, Tess – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
While many elementary-level children in the United States still do not have access to a second/additional language (L2), an increasing number are educated via Foreign Language Exposure (FLEX) tracks. Our two-semester study examines elementary-level L2 learners' engagement, emerging L2 Spanish vocabulary use, and awareness of the arbitrary nature…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Elementary School Students
Zimmerman, Erica – Foreign Language Annals, 2020
This article evaluates the use of audio-recorded conversations and reflections for assisting study abroad participants in critically analyzing conversational interactions. The participants recorded a series of conversations with native speakers of Japanese using digital audio recorders, and, subsequently, analyzed the recordings in a journal and a…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Japanese, Learning Processes
Ibrahim, Karim – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
Video/digital games have grown into a mainstream language-mediated activity that attracts millions of foreign language (FL) learners worldwide. While empirical studies have demonstrated that digital game-based interactions offer valuable opportunities for FL practice and learning (e.g., Sundqvist & Wikström, 2015), little is known about the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Computer Games, Semitic Languages, Second Language Learning
VanPatten, Bill – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
In this essay, I review one of the conclusions in Lindseth (2016) published in "Foreign Language Annals." That conclusion suggests that explicit learning and practice (what she called form-focused instruction) somehow help the development of implicit knowledge (or might even become implicit knowledge). I argue for a different…
Descriptors: Journal Articles, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Second Language Instruction
Troyan, Francis J.; Sembiante, Sabrina F.; King, Nicole – Foreign Language Annals, 2019
This article contributes to broader discussions of the knowledge base for language teacher education; the standards and policies that inform world language teacher education; and the need for a systematic, principled, and robust theory of language to underpin contexualized world language teaching and learning. Specifically, it proposes that the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Standards, Longitudinal Studies