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Direct linkAlbert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
The design of applied linguistic interventions to deal with large-scale language problems involves processes that are both intentional and deliberate. Though they range from the highly innovative to the conventional, applied linguistic designs are not necessarily disruptive. The design process is characterized by five phases, with possible…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Research Design, Intervention
Download full textPaul Meara; Imma Miralpeix – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
This paper is part 4 in a series of workshops that examine the properties of some simple models of vocabulary networks. This Workshop explores how the overall activity level of a vocabulary network can be altered by changing the connections in the network (i.e., by implementing relinking events). The Workshop is linked to an online practice room…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Models, Simulation, Workshops
Costley, Tracey; Reilly, Colin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Linguistic ethnography provides insight into how communication occurs between individuals and institutions, while situating these local actions within wider social, political and historical contexts (Copland & Creese, 2015) and has proven to be a particularly effective tool for developing our understanding of individuals' lived multilingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Research, Ethnography, Research Methodology
Sílvia Perpiñán; Michael T. Putnam – Second Language Research, 2024
This special issue revisits a classic topic in linguistic theory, A-bar movement, applied to developing and bilingual grammars. We claim that A-bar movement, or filler-gap dependencies, is still the quintessential linguistic phenomenon to illustrate the interaction between the biological endowment, the experience with language (past and present),…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Grammar, Second Language Learning
Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
A process of abstraction initiates the development of a theory of applied linguistics, beginning with the distinction between technical norm and technical fact. Each applied linguistic intervention has a normative dimension and a factual interface with its users. The second step is to abstract the qualifying technical modality of these artefacts,…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Applied Linguistics, Intervention, Language Research
Daniel R. Walter – Educational Linguistics, 2023
In this chapter, I explore how the study of grammatical gender has been a prime example of the impact that boundary crossing can have on the understanding of a phenomenon by creating nuance through the incorporation and juxtaposition of multiple perspectives. In the first section, I start with a description of grammatical gender and its different…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Instruction, Language Research, Educational History
Art Tsang; Alex Lap-kwan Lam – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Against the backdrop of greater emphasis on learner centredness and growing attention to learners' voices in recent decades, concerns have been raised over researchers' dominance in shaping research scope and findings. Whether it be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods research, learners' voices are mostly absent at the methodological…
Descriptors: Researchers, Students, Student Centered Learning, Student Empowerment
Jiangli, Su – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
By exploring the faces of context from the perspective of components, knowledge and cognition, this article concludes that context is at the core of pragmatic studies, which examines how context contributes to meaning and pragmatics will gain momentum when linguists and non-linguists tap into the field of context.
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Context Effect, Linguistics, Language Research
Albert Weideman – Educational Linguistics, 2024
The initial high expectations of applied linguistic work did not endure. Applied linguistics is divided between adopting either a modernist or a postmodernist approach. Despite their relevant critique of modernism, the relativism promoted by postmodernist perspectives is an inadequate response to the challenges of the field. A non-reductionist…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Postmodernism
Kristen Syrett – Language Learning and Development, 2024
I argue that the variation within and across contexts detailed by Shin & Miller is indicative of a broader phenomenon in which morphosyntax and the discourse context are intertwined, including elements like perspective, discourse relations, information structure, and common ground. Appealing to independent evidence highlighting the role of…
Descriptors: Language Variation, Language Research, Language Acquisition, Learning Processes
Janna B. Oetting – Language Learning and Development, 2024
Shin and Mill (2021) propose four steps children go through when learning "variable form use." Although I applaud Shin and Miller's focus on morphosyntactic variation, their accrual of evidence is post hoc and selective. Fortunately, Shin and Miller recognize this and encourage tests of their ideas. In support of their work, I share data…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Research, Contrastive Linguistics, Comparative Analysis
John I. Liontas – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2024
Idiomatics--the scientific study of idiomatic language and figurative language--is a pervasive theme in global literature, yet its precise terminology often lacks clear definition. This article addresses this challenge directly by delving into the etymology, significance, and universality of idiomatics. It emphasizes the pivotal role of idiomatics…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Etymology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Researchers
Peter MacIntyre; Ali Panahi; Hassan Mohebbi – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2025
Peter MacIntyre's 35-years of research in SLA, psychology of language learning, and communication was systematically reviewed in six sections driven by subjective guidelines developed for the purposes of the present survey. To operationalize the objectives of the sections, an impressionistic methodology was created for analysis, according to which…
Descriptors: Researchers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Research
Ghadi Matouq; Hana Alqabba – Applied Language Learning, 2025
This guide aims to make corpus building and corpus analysis feasible and practical for language instructors and/or researchers who may view building a corpus as difficult or believe that linguistic analysis requires advanced programming skills. Many avoid creating custom corpora due to these perceived barriers, instead relying on existing corpora…
Descriptors: Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Definitions, Automation, Documentation
Paulina Aravena-Bravo; Alejandrina Cristia; Rowena Garcia; Hiromasa Kotera; Ramona Kunene Nicolas; Ronel Laranjo; Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo; Silvia Benavides-Varela; Titia Benders; Natalie Boll-Avetisyan; Margaret Cychosz; Rodrigo Dal Ben; Yatma Diop; Catalina Durán-Urzúa; Naomi Havron; Marie Manalili; Bhuvana Narasimhan; Paul Okyere Omane; Caroline Rowland; Leticia Schiavon Kolberg; Andrew Sentoogo Ssemata; Suzy J. Styles; Belén Troncoso-Acosta; Fei Ting Woon – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
With a long-term aim of empowering researchers everywhere to contribute to work on language development, we organized the First Truly Global /L+/ International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition, a free 5-day virtual school for early career researchers. In this paper, we describe the school, our experience organizing it, and lessons…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Acquisition, Virtual Schools, Educational Researchers
