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Elouise Botes; Jean-Marc Dewaele; Samuel Greiff; Thomas Goetz – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Personality has been identified as a possible antecedent to emotions experienced in the foreign language (FL) classroom. However, contrasting results and differing personality models have resulted in ambiguous findings. This study set out to delve deeper into the role of personality as a predictor of FL emotions through a series of increasingly…
Descriptors: Personality, Prediction, Second Language Learning, Psychological Patterns
Yanxin Zhu; Theres Grüter – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study investigated whether structural priming, as a reflection of error-driven learning mechanisms, could facilitate second language (L2) learning of the dative alternation in Mandarin. We sought evidence of learning from both priming and acceptability judgment data. Participants were 25 native speakers and 41 classroom learners (CLs). After…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Second Language Learning, Priming, Form Classes (Languages)
Zhouhan Jin; Stuart Webb – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
There has been increasing interest in the effects of note taking in second language (L2) research. However, no meta-analysis has been conducted to examine the relationship between note taking and learning through exposure to L2 input. We retrieved 28 effect sizes from 21 studies (N = 1992) to explore the overall effects of note taking as well as…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Second Language Learning, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
Is L2 Pronunciation Affected by Increased Task Complexity in Pronunciation-Unfocused Speaking Tasks?
Ingrid Mora-Plaza; Joan C. Mora; Mireia Ortega; Cristina Aliaga-Garcia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study examines the effects of task complexity on second language (L2) pronunciation accuracy and global pronunciation measures in pronunciation-unfocused tasks and assesses the relationship between acoustic and listener-based pronunciation measures. Eighty-two Catalan/Spanish learners of English performed simple and complex versions of a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Pronunciation, Spanish, English (Second Language)
Xuehong He; Shawn Loewen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Second language (L2) research on input manipulation has focused mainly on increasing the salience of target structures, but presentation formats of L2 input can be another important aspect for manipulation. This study compared the horizontal, vertical, and adjacent formats for presenting the characters, pinyin, and English meaning of L2 Chinese…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Chinese, Vocabulary, English
Kazuya Saito – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
The current study set out to examine to what degree age of acquisition (AOA), defined as a learner's first intensive exposure to a second language (L2) environment, mediates the final state of postpubertal, spoken vocabulary attainment. In Study 1, spontaneous speech samples were elicited from experienced Japanese users of English (n = 41) using…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Age Differences
Xiaopeng Zhang; Nan Gong – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study examined how linguistic complexity features contribute to second language (L2) processing effort by analyzing the Dutch English-L2 learners' eye movements from GECO and MECO, two eye-tracking corpora. Processing effort was operationalized as reading rate, mean fixation duration, regression rate, skipping rate, and mean saccade…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistics, Language Processing, English (Second Language)
Hyun-Bin Hwang; Matthew D. Coss; Shawn Loewen; Kaitlyn M. Tagarelli – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Research on mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) has revealed that high rates of attrition among users can undermine the potential benefits of this learning method. To explore this issue, we surveyed 3,670 adult MALL users based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and also conducted an in-depth analysis of their…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Handheld Devices, Nontraditional Students, Adults
Nick Henry; Briana Villegas; Kara Morgan-Short – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
An important issue in second-language acquisition concerns the role of explicit information (EI) and how it is affected by individual differences. The present study explored this question through a partial replication and extension of Fernández (2008: Experiment 2), which investigated the effects of EI in processing instruction (PI) for the…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Direct Instruction
Yang Fu; Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto; David Beltrán; Wang Huili; Alberto Dominguez – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
The present study investigates bilinguals' capacity to rapidly establish memory traces for novel word forms in a second language (L2), as a function of L2 linguistic proficiency. A group of Chinese-English bilinguals with various English proficiency levels were presented with a reading-aloud task, consisting of 16 pseudowords and 16 English words…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Second Language Learning, Memory, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Jalil Fathi; Miroslaw Pawlak; S. Yahya Hejazi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
Considering the undeniable importance of examining the role of domain- and skill-specific individual difference factors in second-language (L2) writing research, this study examined the possible roles of English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) learners' ideal L2 writing self and growth L2 writing mindset in their L2 writing grit, which may in turn…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Second Language Learning, Writing (Composition), Student Attitudes
Kazuya Saito; Adam Tierney – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This article proposes a conceptual and measurement framework for postpubertal, L2 speech learning aptitude that is centered around domain-general auditory processing (i.e., representing spectral and temporal characteristics of sounds). To this end, we examine the construct and reliability of a battery of auditory processing tests by presenting the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Auditory Tests, Auditory Perception, Listening Comprehension Tests
Phillip Hamrick; Christopher A. Was; Yin Zhang – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that individual differences in declarative memory may be an important predictor of second language (L2) abilities. However, the evidence comes from studies using different declarative memory tasks that vary in their reliance on verbal abilities and task demands, which preclude estimating the size of the…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Nonverbal Ability, Task Analysis, Second Language Instruction
Wei Yi; Yanlu Zhong – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This meta-analysis synthesized 35 English studies (130 effect sizes, N = 1,981) that employed online tasks to investigate the processing of multiword sequences (MWSs). We examined (a) to what extent MWSs enjoy a processing advantage over novel word combinations; (b) how such a processing advantage is moderated by statistical regularities (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Processing
Janire Zalbidea – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2024
This study investigates the extent to which (a) Spanish heritage (HL) and second language (L2) writers' linguistic complexity differs across register contexts and (b) Spanish proficiency and writing motivational beliefs differentially affect HL and L2 writers' performance. Participants were 58 HL and 54 L2 Spanish learners who completed two…
Descriptors: Native Language, Spanish Speaking, Second Language Learning, Writing Achievement