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ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics - Volume 171, Issue 2, 2020
Volume 171, Issue 2, 2020
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The effects of instructional focus and task type on pre-vocational learners’ ability in EFL oral interaction
Author(s): Eline van Batenburg, Ron Oostdam, Amos van Gelderen, Ruben Fukkink and Nivja de Jongpp.: 153–190 (38)More LessAbstractLittle is known about the effect of diverging pedagogies on the development of interactional oral skills in a foreign language. In a controlled study, we evaluated three newly developed instructional programmes that were situated in the same training context, but that differed in instructional focus and type of task. These were compared to the effects of business-as-usual instruction. Multilevel analysis revealed that all experimental groups outperformed the ‘business-as-usual’ control group on oral interaction skills (N = 199), with similar results for the programmes. Positive effects were found on interaction skills for trained contexts of use only. No transfer was found to tasks in other contexts of use. We conclude that receiving contextualised oral interaction instruction is beneficial to the development of pre-vocational learners’ interaction skills.
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Incidental vocabulary learning through viewing television
Author(s): Michael P. H. Rodgers and Stuart Webbpp.: 191–220 (30)More LessAbstractPrevious research investigating L2 incidental vocabulary learning from video has primarily focused on short videos from genres that may be conducive to vocabulary learning. The research provides evidence that L2 incidental vocabulary learning can occur through video. However, it is uncertain whether viewing episodes of full-length television programs can contribute to incidental learning. This study investigated the effects of viewing 7+ hours of television on incidental vocabulary learning as well as the effects of the frequency and range. One-hundred and eighty-seven Japanese university students viewed ten 42-minute episodes of an American drama. Two vocabulary tests at differing sensitivities were used in a pre- and post-test design measuring receptive knowledge of the form-meaning connection of 60 word-families. The results indicated that (a) viewing television contributed to significant gains in vocabulary knowledge and (b) there was a positive relationship between frequency of occurrence and vocabulary learning. Pedagogical implications are discussed in detail.
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Extracting multiword expressions from texts with the aid of online resources
Author(s): Thuy Bui, Frank Boers and Averil Coxheadpp.: 221–252 (32)More LessAbstractThis article reports on a classroom intervention where L2 learners were prompted to look for multiword expressions in texts. The participants were two intact classes of Vietnamese learners of English as a foreign language. Over a period of eight weeks, the experimental group (n = 26) looked for expressions in texts, while the comparison group (n = 28) used the same texts for content-related activities. In pairs, students in the experimental group consulted online dictionaries and an online corpus to help them determine which word strings in the texts were common expressions. The students’ worksheets and audio-recorded interactions suggest they were by and large successful at this, but also reveal the students found it hard to identify the boundaries of expressions and occasionally failed to find the dictionary (sub-)entries that matched them. The two groups’ ability to recall the expressions was gauged by comparing their scores on a pre-test and a post-test administered one week after the last class and again five months later. The learning gains were greater in the experimental group, although the difference fell short of significance in the delayed post-test. Students in the experimental group whose proficiency in English was relatively high tended to benefit the most.
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Oral corrective feedback on written errors
Author(s): Sajad Afshari, Azizollah Dabaghi and Saeed Ketabipp.: 253–279 (27)More LessAbstractThe current study investigated the differential effect of two types of oral feedback – graduated oral corrective feedback (GOCF) in accordance with sociocultural theory (SCT) and supplemented direct oral corrective feedback (SDOCF) in accordance with cognitive-interactionist theory (CIT) – on Iranian pre-intermediate EFL learners’ written errors. The study used a pretest-treatment-immediate posttest-delayed posttest design with three groups. Two types of tests were employed to measure the learners’ explicit and implicit knowledge of English articles. The results of the repeated measures mixed-design ANOVAs and post-hoc analyses demonstrated that while both types of feedback significantly improved both types of knowledge in the immediate posttest, a clear advantage was found for the GOCF in the long term. The findings indicate that oral feedback, especially the GOCF within SCT, could be an effective means of addressing learners’ written errors and improving their implicit knowledge.
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Effects of rhetorical text analysis on idea generation and text quality
Author(s): Phuong Nam T. Nguyen, Gert Rijlaarsdam, Tanja Janssen and Wilfried Admiraalpp.: 280–306 (27)More LessAbstractProducing a meaningful written discourse in a foreign language requires a high cognitive effort of EFL learners. They face challenges caused by L2 word or grammar-related difficulties, and also by the L2 genre and genre conventions that may be quite different from what they experienced in their L1. The present study focusses on the support offered to Vietnamese L2 writers to overcome these hindrances. An intensive four-week writing intervention was designed and tested to examine whether encouraging genre awareness via a short session of sample text analysis could empower students to conduct effective brainstorming for argumentative writing. In a pre-test post-test control group design with switching replications, with 66 EFL intermediate undergraduate participants, the study obtained four indicators of L2 argumentative writing quality: idea generation, productivity, global text quality and self-efficacy. The results showed that participants integrated the sample text analysis into the idea generation stage. They created significantly longer self-expressive free writing texts, perceived the generated ideas as more useful, and used more of these ideas in their argumentative texts composition, compared to students from the control condition (with teacher instruction only). No treatment effects were found for productivity, global quality of final text, and self-efficacy. Students in both control and treatment conditions generally showed a significant improvement on these variables.
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Review of Siyanova-Chanturia, A., & Pellicer-Sanchez, A., Eds. (2019) Understanding formulaic language: A second language acquisition perspective
Author(s): Thi My Hang Nguyenpp.: 307–311 (5)More LessThis article reviews Understanding formulaic language: A second language acquisition perspective
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DeKeyser, Robert M. and Goretti Prieto Botano, eds. 2019. Doing SLA research with implications for the classroom. Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability
Author(s): Paul Pauwelspp.: 312–317 (6)More LessThis article reviews Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom. Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability
Volumes & issues
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Volume 175 (2024)
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Volume 174 (2023)
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Volume 173 (2022)
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Volume 172 (2021)
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Volume 171 (2020)
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Volume 170 (2019)
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Volume 169 (2018)
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Volume 168 (2017)
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Volume 167 (2016)
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Volume 166 (2015)
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Volume 165 (2014)
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Volume 164 (2012)
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Volume 163 (2012)
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Volume 162 (2011)
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Volume 161 (2011)
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Volume 160 (2010)
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Volume 137 (2002)
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Volume 129 (2000)
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Volume 89 (1990)
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Volume 85 (1989)
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Volume 73 (1986)
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Volume 49 (1980)
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Volume 45 (1979)
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Volume 41 (1978)
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Volume 39 (1978)
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Volume 36 (1977)
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Volume 35 (1977)
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Volume 34 (1976)
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Volume 33 (1976)
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Volume 31 (1976)
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Volume 30 (1975)
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Volume 28 (1975)
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Volume 25 (1974)
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Volume 22 (1973)
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Volume 17 (1972)
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Volume 15 (1972)
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Volume 14 (1971)
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Volume 13 (1971)
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Volume 12 (1971)
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Volume 10 (1970)
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Volume 9 (1970)
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Volume 8 (1970)
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Volume 7 (1970)
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Volume 6 (1969)
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Volume 5 (1969)
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Volume 4 (1969)
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Volume 3 (1969)
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Volume 2 (1968)
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Volume 1 (1968)
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