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Ilha do Desterro, 2011 A re-awakening of interest in foreign language aptitude in recent years has also seen some reanalyses of the construct. Prominent in these reanalyses is revised conception of memory and aptitude, and particularly, the role of working memory.
Erica Chan, Peter Skehan, Gwendolyn Gong
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Language Learning Histories and Learner Variables in an MA TEFL Programme: A Well-being Perspective [PDF]
Teaching English Language, 2016 Highlighting the complex and dynamic nature of learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL) from the perspective of the well-being theory and following an intact group design, this study analyzed Iranian MA TEFL students' (N = 37) language learning ...
Zainab Abolfazli Khonbi, Karim Sadeghi
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the last three decades, higher education institutions (HEIs) have integrated sustainability into their curricula. Recent research has focused on sustainability competences and pedagogical approaches, and how the latter foster the development of the former. Previous studies have examined the connections between pedagogical approaches and
Gabriela Ortiz‐Martínez +27 more
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Using Reverse Mentoring to Transform In-Service Teachers’ Beliefs About How to Teach English
Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2022 This qualitative research study delves into elementary school teachers’ beliefs and the potential contribution of reverse mentoring to improve English language teaching for children.
Liliana Valle +2 more
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Previous research demonstrated that communication anxiety reduces L2 learners' willingness to communicate and communication frequency, but left unexplored its impact on performance. The current mixed‐methods study investigated factors impacting L2 communication skills.
Debra M. Hardison
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The effects of high versus low talker variability and individual aptitude on phonetic training of Mandarin lexical tones [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 High variability (HV) training has been found to be more effective than low variability (LV) training when learning various non-native phonetic contrasts. However, little research has considered whether this applies to the learning of tone contrasts. The
Hanyu Dong +3 more
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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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Motivation and Aptitude: A Partial Validation of ECT-L2A
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2019 Energy Conservation Theory of Second Language Acquisition (ECT-L2A; Han, Bao & Wiita, 2017), an interdisciplinary theory juxtaposing a physics perspective and an applied linguistics perspective, conceptualizes individuals’ ultimate attainment as a ...
Peter Kim
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Implementing Argument‐Based Validity in Second Language Research on Individual Differences
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Quantitative meta‐syntheses focusing on the psychometric properties of measurement tools in second and foreign language (L2) individual differences (ID) research have drawn scholars' attention to the quality of data collection instruments (Plonsky & Derrick, 2016; Sudina, 2023).
Katalin Piniel, Ekaterina Sudina
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Strategies and the Language Learner
Educazione Linguistica Language Education, 2012 The active role of the learner in the language learning process has been thoroughly acknowledged in the past fifty years. The discussion on the centrality of the learner in the acquisi- tion of a second (L2) or foreign language (FL) is essentially ...
CASAGRANDE, NAIR +5 more
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