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Online First articles are the published Version of Record, made available as soon as they are finalized and formatted. They are in general accessible to current subscribers, until they have been included in an issue, which is accessible to subscribers to the relevant volume
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Adolescents’ informal exposure to English as a second language in the context of Galicia : Effects on vocabulary, grammar, and writing
Author(s): Rosa Alonso Alonso and Ana Fernández-DobaoAvailable online: 17 February 2025More LessAbstractThis study examines the effects of informal English exposure on vocabulary, grammar, and writing. A total of 178 Galician adolescent learners of English completed a placement test, a language background and an out-of-school English activities questionnaire, and three language tasks: a grammaticality judgement test, a vocabulary test, and a writing task. Findings revealed that the most common out-of-school activities were listening to music, watching films without subtitles, and gaming. Positive correlations were found between learners’ performance on the language tasks and the activities of watching films without subtitles, watching films with captions, reading, writing, and, to a smaller extent, listening to music, gaming, and speaking online. Gender-related differences were noticed in the frequency of some out-of-school activities and the correlations with learners’ performance on the three language tasks.
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The role of working memory and attention control in incidental L2 vocabulary learning from reading-while-listening
Author(s): Jookyoung Jung, Wenrui Zhang and Minjin LeeAvailable online: 14 February 2025More LessAbstractThis study investigated the role of working memory and attention control in incidental L2 vocabulary learning from engaging in reading-while-listening. Fifty-nine Cantonese ESL learners engaged in reading-while-listening to two English stories in which twelve adjective-pseudonoun collocations appeared three times in meaningful contexts. Immediately after the reading-while-listening task and again one week later, participants completed unannounced posttests that measured their receptive and productive knowledge about the pseudonouns and their collocations. Their working memory was assessed with an automated operation span task, and attention control ability was measured with three squared tasks that consisted of Stroop, Flanker, and Simon squared tasks. The results indicated that attention control played a significant role in remembering the target pseudonoun forms and their collocational features for both recall and recognition. The working memory, by contrast, did not emerge as a determinant factor. The implications of the findings were discussed in the context of L2 vocabulary learning.
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Review of Björklund & Björklund (2023): Policy and practice for multilingual educational settings. Comparisons across contexts
Author(s): Anna Krulatz and Georgios NeokleousAvailable online: 14 February 2025More Less
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Review of Krulatz & Christison (2023): Multilingual Approach to Diversity in Education (MADE): A Methodology for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms
Author(s): Suci Utami Armand, Dina Ulfa Desta Safda, Hardianto Hitimala and Lintang Indira NadiantiAvailable online: 14 February 2025More Less
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Development and initial validation of a yes/no vocabulary test for North Sámi : Drawing on item response theory and signal detection theory
Author(s): Henrik Gyllstad, Tanja Kupisch and Anika Lloyd-SmithAvailable online: 05 August 2024More LessAbstractThis paper accounts for the development and initial validation of a yes/no vocabulary test of North Sámi called North Sámi Vocabulary Test (NSVT). North Sámi (NS) is an Indigenous language spoken in northern Scandinavia. Being an endangered language, NS is in need of revitalisation efforts. One contribution is the provision of proficiency assessment tools. We administered a 75-item NSVT version (50 real verbs and 25 pseudoverbs) to users of North Sámi in Sweden and Norway (N = 289). Evidence of high item- and person-based reliability and separation indices were observed, as well as support for a number of validity facets. High correlations existed between NSVT scores and self-reported and rated spoken proficiency. The NSVT provides quick and reliable assessment of vocabulary knowledge and an indication of overall language proficiency in North Sámi.
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Review of Karlsson (2023): Advanced Students’ Knowledge of Vocabulary in a First and Second Language
Author(s): Paul PauwelsAvailable online: 27 July 2023More Less
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Review of Lightfoot (2020): Born to Parse: How Children Select Their Languages
Author(s): Yu FuAvailable online: 13 July 2023More Less
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The updated Vocabulary Levels Test
Author(s): Stuart Webb, Yosuke Sasao and Oliver Ballance
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