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Task engagement and comprehensibility development in video‐mediated intercultural exchanges: A longitudinal study

open access: yesForeign Language Annals, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 520-542, Summer 2026.
Abstract Despite growing interest in task engagement, few studies have examined how it contributes to L2 development. This longitudinal study examined how task engagement related to gains in L2 Japanese comprehensibility among nine UK‐based university students participating in a semester‐long, video‐mediated eTandem exchange with Japanese partners ...
Yuka Akiyama   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spontaneous Strategies Used During Novel Word Learning

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 357-390, June 2026.
Abstract This online study examined spontaneous strategies of English‐speaking adults during associative word learning, the relationship of these strategies with learning outcomes and within‐task evolution of strategy use. Participants were to learn to name 14 object–pseudoword pairs across five successive encoding/recall blocks, followed by delayed ...
Matti Laine   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 391-424, June 2026.
Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes of Jordanian school students toward dictionaries. [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon
Alrashdan I   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 565-596, June 2026.
Abstract The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language.
Katie Von Holzen, Rochelle S. Newman
wiley   +1 more source

Saurashtra: An Indo-Aryan language dataset. [PDF]

open access: yesData Brief
Veeramani K, Jaganathan S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cross‐Linguistic Suffix Preference: Typological or Cognitive Bias?

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1560, Issue 1, June 2026.
Languages can be shaped by pre‐existing cognitive machinery that makes certain properties more processable. Such properties are more frequent across world languages. Most languages prefer suffixes to prefixes for grammatical meanings. Whether such typological bias is shaped by cognitive bias is debated.
Mikhail Ordin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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