WORDS THAT MATTER IN L2 RESEARCH AND PEDAGOGY

The Potential of Corpus-informed L2 Pedagogy

Corpus linguistic methods have led to many revelations about the nature of language use and language learning which are otherwise untenable. To date, however, these findings have not had major impact on L2 (second and foreign language) teaching, except in a few areas like L2 for specialized purposes. This may be due to a number of reasons, including issues of theoretical commensurability and th...

Curriculum Integration of MALL in L1/L2 Pedagogy: Perspectives on Research

This study surveys work that has been done in the field of Mobile Assisted Language Learning. The researchers surveyed 70 corresponding authors of past MALL studies with formatted and open-ended questions, treating them as expert “participant-observers” of their own studies. The findings present details from the respondents about the MALL environments of the studies, the extent to which the MAL...

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Methods That Matter in Digital Design Research

Theories and analytical perspectives are linked to methods. The discussion of the methods used to capture the complexities of practices with a focus on social, cultural and economic layers (Jordan and Henderson 1994; Wagner 1994; Sjöberg 1996; Newman 1998) represents an important resource for a discussion of designers’ interpretative work with both traditional and new experimental methods. In p...

Genre pedagogy: Language, literacy and L2 writing instruction

For teacher educators, genre-based pedagogies offer a valuable resource for assisting both preand inservice writing instructors to assist their students to produce effective and relevant texts. Instead of focusing on the process of composition, the content of texts, or the abstract prescriptions of disembodied grammars, genre pedagogies enable teachers to ground their courses in the texts that ...