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Ergül, Hilal – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Oral Corrective Feedback is a widely used teaching strategy that has been found to help language acquisition. The factors that contribute to its effectiveness, however, remain elusive. In this study, the role of smiling during teachers' OCF provision is investigated in intact language classrooms by modifying the analytical framework developed by…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Oral Language, Error Correction, Feedback (Response)
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Changjiang Tang – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
The outbreak of COVID-19 has led to the need for institutions to provide online learning to their students. In this context, it is important to understand the views of both students and teachers regarding online classes. This study aims to explore the opinions of English teachers and students in vocational colleges in China about online English…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Yueqingzhou Ma; Norbert Vanek – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2024
Research on first language (L1) attrition typically focuses on immigrant populations in their second language (L2) environment, yet we know comparably little about L1 attrition in the L1 setting. This study used two lexical tasks to test L1 attrition, a time-sensitive word decision task and a video retelling. Chinese teachers of English vs.…
Descriptors: Native Language, Language Skill Attrition, Chinese, Second Language Learning
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Pan, Ziwen; Wang, Yongliang; Derakhshan, Ali – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Over the past decade, there has appeared a surge of research interest in language learners' academic engagement and psychological well-being as important factors in improving the quality of education. However, research on the roles of English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers' affective scaffolding in enhancing the academic engagement and…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Mahmoodzadeh, Masoud; Khajavy, Gholam Hassan – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2019
Why do some students frequently ask questions and actively seek out answers in the classroom, while others avoid this? Many language teachers might have commonly asked themselves this question. The present study is an empirical investigation of the concept of curiosity in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). Using a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Motivation, Psycholinguistics, Language Teachers
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Saadatnia, Mahmood; Ketabi, Saeed; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between text structure and two levels of reading comprehension, namely literal and inferential, in Iranian EFL learners. Studies have generally found that learners perform differently after they have read different text structures (Amiri et al. in "Proc Soc Behav Sci"…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Text Structure