Overall, Ellis's book is quite accessible in that it provides context for the reader in each of the chapters and consistently pOints out how both his and other studies fit into particular paradigms and address (or neglect to address) particular issues. In spite of a multitude of typographical errors, which can be quite disconcerting, the book invites the reader to participate in current SLA deb...

I learned a lot from this book, which is a collection of chapters by a small group of authors loosely based around the notions of the Semantic Web and ontologies and their importance for scholarly and scientific communication and research. I'm not entirely sure, however, what to make of it. On the one hand, it reads like something that might be useful in a graduate library science seminar on th...

The role of implicit and explicit negative feedback in language acquisition has been of major concern, especially in Second Language Acquisition (SLA). Research in SLA has demonstrated that implicit negative feedback such as recast and implicit expansion are potential triggers of language development and learning. Data from two experiments, using a pretest-posttest experimental control design, ...

The paper presents a case study of early childhood language development focused on Tamil child from Sri Lanka. research aims to analyse the progress Lanka achieves in at five levels: phonological, morphological, syntactical, semantic, and pragmatic. methodology involves five-fold linguistic analysis some utterances extracted conversation between researcher subject, who is six-year-old Lankan ch...

The present study was an attempt to explore the ‘washback effect’ of task-based assessment (TBLA) on EFL Iranian learners’ pragmatic development. To this end, through conducting KET (Key English Test), 60 out of 120 EFL Iranian learners studying in an English language school, were randomly selected. They were assigned to treatment group (N=30), and control group (N=30). The treatment group was ...

Recent research in linguistics singles out emotion words as different from other abstract words. The goal of this article is to examine five factors that may impact the use of L2 emotion vocabulary. The first study considers the impact of language proficiency, gender, and extraversion on the use of emotion words in the advanced French interlanguage of 29 Dutch L1 speakers. The second examines t...