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Bridging the Gap: Cognitive and Social Approaches to Research in Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Hulstijn, Jan H.; Young, Richard F.; Ortega, Lourdes; Bigelow, Martha; DeKeyser, Robert; Ellis, Nick C.; Lantolf, James P.; Mackey, Alison; Talmy, Steven – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2014
For some, research in learning and teaching of a second language (L2) runs the risk of disintegrating into irreconcilable approaches to L2 learning and use. On the one side, we find researchers investigating linguistic-cognitive issues, often using quantitative research methods including inferential statistics; on the other side, we find…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Social Influences
The Case against the Case against Recasts
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Goo, Jaemyung; Mackey, Alison – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2013
In the previous 20 years, more than 60 studies have been carried out within the input and interaction approach to SLA (Long, 2007; Mackey 2012), many of which have found positive associations between different types of recasts and the learning of a range of linguistic forms for a number of different second languages (L2s), in different learning…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response), Laboratories
Syntactic Priming and ESL Question Development
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McDonough, Kim; Mackey, Alison – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2008
Interaction research that has investigated the relationship between language production and second language (L2) development has largely focused on learners' immediate responses to interactional feedback. However, other speech production processes might help account for the beneficial relationship between interaction and L2 development. The…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Interaction
Frequency Effects and Second Language Acquisition: A Complex Picture?
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Gass, Susan M.; Mackey, Alison – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2002
In response to Ellis (2002), which focuses on frequency in language processing, language use, and language acquisition, this article argues in favor of a role for frequency in several areas of second language acquisition, including interactional input and output and speech processing. Also discusses areas where L2 acquisition appears to proceed…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Input
Input, Interaction, and Second Language Development: An Empirical Study of Question Formation in ESL.
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Mackey, Alison – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1999
Examines the relationship between different types of conversational interaction and second language acquisition. Focuses on whether conversational interaction facilitates second language development? Employed a pre-test posttest design. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Interaction, Pretests Posttests, Second Language Instruction
How Do Learners Perceive Interactional Feedback?
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Mackey, Alison; Gass, Susan; McDonough, Kim – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2000
Explores English-as-a-Second-Language learners and Italian as a foreign language learners perceptions of feedback provided to them through task-based dyadic interaction. Learners received feedback focused on a range of morphosyntactic, lexical, and phonological forms. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Adults, English (Second Language), Feedback, Interaction
Epilogue: From Introspections, Brain Scans, and Memory Tests to the Role of Social Context--Advancing Research on Interaction and Learning
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Mackey, Alison – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2006
The goal of this epilogue is to use the methodological contributions of the studies presented in this special issue as a starting point for suggestions about methodology in conducting future interaction research. As is the case in most developing fields, interaction research develops methods internally as it continually borrows and extends…
Descriptors: Language Research, Psychologists, Interaction, Memory