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Serene Y. Wang; Morten H. Christiansen – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
Among the various challenges that adult and other late language learners face on their journey to achieving nativelike proficiency, chunking has been identified as one of the most difficult tasks to master. Language users are able to derive and utilize chunks during language processing -- both in the first (L1) and the second language (L2) -- yet…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
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FX. Risang Baskara; Anindita Dewangga Puri; Concilianus Laos Mbato – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The rapid advancement of Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies has made new opportunities available in language education. This qualitative study investigates using generative AI tools by university English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students to create podcasts for language learning. The research was based on 80 undergraduate students who…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students
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Benati, Alessandro – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
In this paper, the role and nature of language and language development will be discussed. Research and theory in second language acquisition has demonstrated that (i) language is an abstract, implicit and complex system. Input (ii) plays a key role in language development; despite the fact that some knowledge of language is innate (iii). Overall,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Linguistic Input
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Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen; Burghardt, Beatrix – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2020
This paper discusses the stage of second language acquisition known as attrition and what learners and teachers can do to prevent attrition and promote retention. Attrition is the stage at which a learner's attained proficiency declines due to a reduction of contact with the second language, whether from lack of contact with other speakers of the…
Descriptors: Prevention, Language Skill Attrition, Retention (Psychology), Language Proficiency
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Hassan Solouki – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
As textbooks are main sources for pragmatic development in EFL contexts, they are evaluated to see if they contain adequate inputs. Hence, the frequency of four ubiquitous speech acts (apology, complaint, refusal, request) across four business English textbooks (Business Basics, Business Result, Business Venture, Powerbase) was analyzed. The…
Descriptors: Business English, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Altunay, Dilek – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2019
The connective 'but' mainly represents two different contrastive relations (Lakoff, 1971; Van Dijk, 1979; Blakemore, 1989). One of them is semantic, which shows semantic opposition and where no expectation is denied. The other is pragmatic, which shows a denial of expectation. This study aimed to investigate the use of 'but' by Turkish EFL…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Semantics, Language Usage, Second Language Learning