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Direct linkJunming Chen; Martin Howard – Language Learning, 2024
Exploring the underinvestigated area of instruction during study abroad, this article offers a quantitative study of linguistic development among second language university learners of Chinese during a semester in China. A comparison is made between learners following task-based language teaching and a comparison group following a traditional…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Chinese
Paul Leeming; Joseph P. Vitta; Phil Hiver; Dillon Hicks; Stuart McLean; Christopher Nicklin – Language Learning, 2024
This study investigated how students' self-reported individual differences predicted second language (L2) spoken discussion task output, an objective behavioral outcome, in the Japanese university English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Although numerous psychological theories are used as a rationale for task-based language teaching (TBLT),…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Uchihara, Takumi; Webb, Stuart; Saito, Kazuya; Trofimovich, Pavel – Language Learning, 2023
The current study investigated the effects of repetition on the learning of second language (L2) spoken word forms. Japanese university students learning L2 English were randomly assigned to one of three treatment conditions (one, three, and six exposures) and learned 40 words while hearing them and viewing their corresponding pictures. A…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Intelligibility, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Moranski, Kara; Zalbidea, Janire – Language Learning, 2022
This study employed a multisite design to investigate the differential impact of deductive and guided inductive instruction for second language (L2) grammar development in ecologically valid classroom contexts. Students (n = 138) from eight intact third-year L2 Spanish classes in three public high schools in the United States received deductive…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking
Baba, Kyoko; Nitta, Ryo – Language Learning, 2014
This study explored patterns in L2 writing development by focusing on one of the linguistic features of texts (fluency) from a complex dynamic systems perspective. It investigated whether two English-as-a-foreign-language university students would experience discontinuous change (phase transition) in their writing fluency through repetition of a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Text Structure
Markee, Numa; Kunitz, Silvia – Language Learning, 2013
We use insights and methods from ethnomethodological conversation analysis and discursive psychology to develop an account of embodied word and grammar searches as socially distributed planning practices. These practices, which were produced by three intermediate learners of Italian as a Foreign Language (IFL), occurred massively in natural data…
Descriptors: Italian, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Discourse Analysis
