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Examining L2 Learners' Use of Engagement Strategies in Telecollaborative Written Interactions

2018

Based on an intercultural telecollaboration project between two universities from either side of the Atlantic Ocean, this chapter analyzes written discourse produced by advanced learners of Spanish as a foreign language and higher intermediate learners of English as a foreign language in order to explore how second-language learners negotiate their ideological positions, create new knowledge, and build their arguments when discussing their first culture (C1) and second culture (C2) in telecollaborative written asynchronous interactions. Two research questions are addressed: a) the extent to which learners engage in a dialogic activity in online forums when discussing their C1 and C2, and b)…

Comparing formulaicity of learner writing through phrase-frames: a corpus-driven study of Lithuanian and Polish EFL student writing

2018

Learner corpus research continues to provide evidence of how formulaic language is (mis)used by learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). This paper deals with less investigated multi-word units in EFL contexts, namely, phrase-frames (Fletcher 2002–2007), i.e. sets of n-grams identical except for one word (it is * to, in the * of). The study compares Lithuanian and Polish learner writing in English in terms of phrase-frames and contrasts them with native speakers. The analysis shows that certain differences between Lithuanian and Polish learners result from transfer from their native languages, yet both groups of learners share many common features. Most importantly, the phrase-frame…

The Effects of Multiple‐Exposure Textual Enhancement on Child L2 Learners’ Development in Derivational Morphology: A Multi‐Site Study

2021

Strategic Processing of Chinese Young English Language Learners in an International Standardized English Language Test

2018

Strategic competence is acknowledged to be able to explain variations in language test performance. Research with adult language test-takers has shown that strategic competence has dual components: strategic knowledge and strategic processing. Of the two components, strategic processing, which is state-like, unstable, and tends to fluctuate from contexts to contexts, is more closely related to language test performance. To date, none of the existing studies investigates strategic processing with children English language learners (ELLs) and explores the relationship between strategic processing in all the four skills of language learning and the test performance. Addressing these gaps, the …

Digging up the frequency of phrasal verbs in English for the Police: the case of up

2016

The present study focuses on the frequency of phrasal verbs with the particle up in the context of crime and police investigative work. This research emerges from the need to enlarge McCarthy and O’Dell’s (2004) scope from purely criminal behavior to police investigative actions. To do so, we relied on a corpus of 504,124 running words made up of spoken dialogues extracted from the script of the American TV series Castle shown on ABC since 2009. Based on Rudzka-Ostyn’s (2003) cognitive motivations for the particle up, we have identified five different meaning extensions for our phrasal verbs. Drawing from these findings, we have designed pedagogical activities for those L2 learners that stu…

The development of L2 Italian morphosyntax in adult learners with limited literacy

2020

Low literacy and schooling rates are a significant factor among adults in the recent migration towards Europe, including Italy. However, in Italy linguistic research has paid very little attention to the relationship between newcomers’ language learning processes and (low) schooling and literacy. This lack of attention to the role of home language(s) literacy – and, more in general, to the sociolinguistic variables characterising the condition of migration – is problematic at a theoretical level. As it assumes the role of literacy as the main research question, the investigation on the acquisition of morphosyntax by adult learners with limited literacy, which is described in the volume, rep…

Daudzveidīgu aktivitāšu nozīme angļu valodas apguves veicināšanā 5 gadīgiem bērniem

2017

Diplomdarba nosaukums: Daudzveidīgu aktivitāšu nozīme angļu valodas apguves veicināšanā 5 gadīgiem bērniem. Diplomdarba autore: Diāna Elizabete Makveja Diplomdarba zinātniskās vadītājs: Mg. paed. Sandra Kalniņa Diplomdarba saturs: 53 lpp, 10 attēli, 3 tabulas, 4 pielikumi, analizētas 65 literatūras vienības. Pētījuma mērķis: teorētiski izpētīt, pamatot un praktiski pārbaudīt daudzveidīgu aktivitāšu nozīmi angļu valodas apguves veicināšanā 5 gadīgiem bērniem. Diplomdarba teorētiskā daļa balstās uz vairāku autoru atziņām (Lieģeniece, 1999, Svence, 1999, Baltušīte, 2000, Cameron, 2001, Marcos, 2001, Piažē, 2002, Vigotskis, 2002, O’Grady, 2005,Vos, 2008, Ellis, 2008, Brice, 2013, Lang, 2014, Ch…

Uzdevumi sākumskolas skolēnu angļu valodas izrunas pilnveidei

2020

Izruna ir nozīmīga angļu valodas apguves daļa. Izrunas prasmes ietekmē spēju radīt skaņas, saprast valodu un uztvert teiktā nozīmi, kas ir būtiski faktori, lai veidotu veiksmīgu komunikāciju. Šī iemesla dēļ sākumskolas angļu valodas stundās vairāk uzmanības būtu jāvelta izrunas uzlabošanas vingrinājumiem. Izvēloties vingrinājumus, nepieciešams ņemt vērā izrunas apguves īpatnības jaunākā skolas vecuma skolēniem. Lai noteiktu metožu un vingrinājumu efektivitāti izrunas prasmju uzlabošanai sākumskolā, tika pielietotas divas mācību metodes, audiolingvālā mācību metode un tiešā metode, Tukuma 2. vidusskolas 4. klases skolēnu angļu valodas stundās. Noslēguma diagnosticējošais tests apstiprināja, …

Bridging the gap between research and practice : using phenomenographic findings to develop training for career practitioners

2021

AbstractThis study contends that phenomenography offers both a useful research method and practical tools for developing education and training for career practitioners. After introducing the basic principles of phenomenography, the study reviews previous research on its potential in developing pedagogical practices. It explores how the phenomenographic findings were utilized to design an online skills training programme for career practitioners. The study finds that phenomenographic research serves three practical pedagogical purposes: (1) revealing how learners understand certain concepts or phenomena, (2) elucidating how these understandings differ; and (3) identifying critical aspects i…

Tracking down phrasal verbs: the case of up and down

2016

Since the frequency of phrasal verbs is register-specific, it is essential for L2 learners to be exposed to the most productive phrasal verbs in their field of study. Thus, English for Police learners should become familiar and practise the most recurrent phrasal verbs in the context of crime and police investigative work. In this study we determine the frequency and meaning extensions of phrasal verbs with the particles up and down in a spoken corpus of English for the Police on the basis of which we also generate teaching materials for L2 trainee police officers. This research extends McCarthy and O’Dell’s (2004) scope of analysis by encompassing not only phrasal verbs related to criminal…