This paper aims at providing a comprehensive review of previous research on second language (L2) writing. Major issues and the relevant findings from five areas of inquiry into L2 writing are presented, namely, L2 writers’ characteristics, the L2 writing process, L2 writing feedback, L2 writing instruction, and L2 writers’ texts. It is found that L2 writing is quite a complex process which invo...

Based on the controversial beliefs among L2 teachers about effective corrective feedback (CF) strategies, recast and prompts as 2 kinds of CF have drawn the attention of L2 researchers(e.g., Braidi, 2002; Iwashita, 2003; Loewen & Philp, 2006; Panova & Lyster, 2002; Sheen, 2004). Despite these numbers of studies, debate continues to exist about their usefulness as a CF technique. Whereas recasts...

We investigate style accommodation in online discussions, in particular its interplay with content agreement and disagreement. Using a new model for measuring style accommodation, we find that speakers coordinate on style more noticeably if they disagree than if they agree, especially if they want to establish rapport and possibly persuade their interlocutors.

In this paper, we describe an application domain which requires the computational simulation of human-human communication in which one of the interlocutors has an expressive communication disorder. The importance and evaluation of a process, called here microplanning and surface realization, for such communicative agents is discussed and a related exploratory study is described.

the idea is growing among educators that thinking skill needs to be given a direct attention. on one hand, critical thinking is supposed to broaden students’ thinking in all regards (schafersman, 1991); and on the other hand learners’ attitudes towards the second language can affect both their performance in the class and their final accomplishment. to this end, the present study started with t...

We have showed previously that the Fourier transform is an isometric isomorphism on L2 = CcR ∩ L2Rn. In particular, we have a ∀u ∈ L2 ||u||0 = ||û||0 Parseval relation b ∀u,v ∈ L2, u,v0 = û, v̂0 Plancherel relation The results (a) and (b) hold for every test function, and since the test functions are dense in L2Rn, they extend to L2Rn by continuity. Then the Fourier transform can...