Se recogen en este capítulo los movimientos iniciales y proyectos de humani-dades digitales sobre la lengua española entre 1971 y 1993. Se trata, sobre todo, de proyectos españoles desarrollados principalmente en relación con universidades y centros de investigación de Madrid. Se hace referencia también a otros centros y otros proyectos, sobre…[Read more]

This is a video demonstration of how a LCTL language instructor used the LoLa Self-Assessment template to design 10 ACTFL-based Can-Do Statements that students in the class can take to self-assess their language development over time in the class. This specific video demonstrated the creation of Chinese Can-Do Statements at the ACTFL novice-level,…[Read more]

This is a video demonstration of how a LCTL language instructor used the LoLa Self-Assessment template to design 10 ACTFL-based Can-Do Statements that students in the class can take to self-assess their language development over time in the class. This specific video demonstrated the creation of Russian Can-Do Statements at the ACTFL novice-level,…[Read more]

One experimental phenomenon that can cause a threat to the internal validity of L2 teaching research is test-practice effects: the extent to which L2 learners improve by taking the same or similar tests for multiple occasions (e.g., at a pretest and posttests). This article reports a pilot meta-analysis within a larger study that investigated…[Read more]

Cultivation metaphors that compare teachers and students to gardeners and plants, respectively, have a long presence in the field of education. While such metaphors can be used to represent learner-centered pedagogies in which a teacher fosters the growth of their students, there is a darker side to cultivation metaphors. For instance, Zipory…[Read more]

With the growth of the Japanese economy in the 1970s and 1980s and the following rapid business globalization, many Japanese companies started to seek more business opportunities overseas (Kanno, 2003; Tamiya et al., 2014; Yoshida et al., 2009). This tendency was prominent, especially among Japanese major automotive companies, such as Nissan,…[Read more]

Due to growing access to audiovisual material (e.g., online videos, movies, and television series) through websites such as YouTube and Netflix, audiovisual material has received notable interest recently within the field of second language acquisition (SLA). This interest is particularly due to the multiple affordances this content provides,…[Read more]

This research proposal of a quasi-experimental study aims at exploring the effects of a textreconstruction output task called Story-Retelling (SR) on Japanese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ implicit knowledge development on three types of English relative clauses (RCs). Thirty university students are randomly assigned to two e…[Read more]

The purpose of this study is to analyze eye movements of second language learners of Mandarin Chinese during online reading to determine patterns of attention. I intend to replicate and expand part of Stickler and Shi’s (2014) original eye tracking experiments on Chinese second language learners completing an online reading activity with Chinese…[Read more]

Real Reading 1 is a beginner-level reading textbook for an adult English language classroom and is the first in a series of four textbooks designed to teach intensive reading skills and develop vocabulary. Each of its twelve units contain two thematically related chapters and target a specific reading skill, vocabulary skill, and vocabulary…[Read more]

Global migration has emerged over the last decade such that countries that have seen relatively few immigration issues have started struggling (as France, the United States, Great Britain, and Australia have) with various and diverse concerns related to immigration. For language teachers, the new reality of global migration is a challenge,…[Read more]

In a first or second language (L2), it is thought that in order to accurately produce a sound, one must be able to accurately distinguish that same sound in reception. This intuitive connection, called the perception-production link, also enjoys theoretical support from Flege’s (1995) Speech Learning Model and empirical support from a c…[Read more]

Definiteness is visibly expressed by definite articles in English, but some languages such as Korean lack this morphological exponent. However, speakers of such languages still mark definiteness in different ways. In this proposal, we lay out a study that examines the (re)assembly required by L1-English L2-Korean learners where the formal feature…[Read more]

This study investigates the impact of three types of focus-on-form instruction (FFI) on learners’ reading comprehension and their development of the English past unreal conditional. The study also investigates whether the learners’ grammar development is implicit or explicit in nature. Fifty-one intermediate-level ESL learners were distributed int…[Read more]