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Second Language Acquisition

Introducing Linguistics, 2021
This paper argues that the brain is the seat of cognition, that cognitive processes are neural processes, and that, in the brain, affect and cognition are distinguishable but inseparable.
John W. Schwieter
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The flipped classroom in second language learning: A meta-analysis

Language Teaching Research, 2020
Flipped learning has become a popular approach in various educational fields, including second language teaching. In this approach, the conventional educational process is reversed so that learners do their homework and prepare the material before going ...
Joseph P. Vitta, Ali H. Al‐Hoorie
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Subcomponents of Second Language Aptitude and Second Language Proficiency

The Modern Language Journal, 2011
A factor analysis of a test battery that included early first-language (L1) achievement, L1 cognitive ability, second-language (L2) aptitude, and L2 affective measures to predict oral and written L2 proficiency was conducted. The analysis yielded 4 factors that were labeled Language Analysis, composed of L1 and L2 language comprehension, grammar ...
RICHARD L. SPARKS, NANCY HUMBACH, JON PATTON, LEONORE GANSCHOW   +3 more
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Second language acquisition

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2010
AbstractSecond language acquisition (SLA) is a field that investigates child and adult SLA from a variety of theoretical perspectives. This article provides a survey of some key areas of concern including formal generative theory and emergentist theory in the areas of morpho‐syntax and phonology.
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Willingness to communicate in a second language

Research Features
This Element offers a review of advancements in willingness to communicate (WTC) in a second language (L2) over the past twenty-five years. It begins with the origin of the concept of WTC in first language (L1) communication research and the seminal and ...
Jian-E Peng
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Using gamification to support learning English as a second language: a systematic review

Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
Digital gamification has been argued to be a fun and enjoyable method to support Learning English as a Second Language (LESL) and to ease the gap between students’ learning and educational practice.
Hojjat Dehghanzadeh, H. Fardanesh, J. Hatami, E. Talaee, O. Noroozi   +4 more
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SECOND LANGUAGE ANXIETY AND ACHIEVEMENT

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
Second language (L2) anxiety has been the object of constant empirical and theoretical attention for several decades. As a matter of both theoretical and practical interest, much of the research in this domain has examined the relationship between ...
Y. Teimouri, Julia Goetze, Luke Plonsky
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Crosslinguistic Influence in Second Language Acquisition

The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Preface1. Terence Odlin: Was There Really Ever a Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis?2. Vivian Cook: Transfer and the Relationship Between the Languages of Multi-competence3.
Rosa Alonso Alonso
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Studying Second Language Production

2022
Abstract: In today’s globalized world, we are surrounded by words, sentences, and texts produced by second-language (L2) users. Databases containing spontaneous speech and assignments produced in foreign language classes provide a wealth of information on the eventual products that L2 users produce.
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Feedback in Second Language Writing

, 2019
Now in its second edition, this volume provides an up to date, accessible, yet authoritative introduction to feedback on second language writing for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students, teachers and researchers in the areas of TESOL, applied ...
Ken Hyland, F. Hyland
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