Inhibitory control (IC), an ability to suppress irrelevant and/or conflicting information, has been found to underlie performance on a variety of cognitive tasks, including bilingual language processing. This study examines the relationship between IC and the speech patterns of second language (L2) users from the perspective of individual differences. While the majority of studies have supporte...

In this study we investigated the extent to which writing proficiency predicts L2 writers’ speed fluency, pausing, and eye-gaze behaviours cognitive processes that underlie pausing. Additionally, explored whether these relationships were influenced by stage of (beginning, middle stages, end). The participants 60 Chinese second language users English, with levels ranging from CEFR B1 C1 levels. ...

Although several studies have explored the effects of task sequencing on second language (L2) production, there is no established set criteria to sequence tasks for learners in L2 writing classrooms. This study examined effect simple ? complex manipulated along both resource-directing (± number elements) and resource-dispersing planning time) factors compared individual performance using Robins...

This study draws on teacher perception data gathered from 65 secondary school modern languages (L2) teachers in South-East England. Data were collected via four iterations of an online questionnaire and follow-up interviews with six heads department. paper reports respondents’ perceived strengths development needs relation to their classroom practice, including: L2 teachers’ sense self-efficacy...

while parkinson's disease (pd) has traditionally been defined by motor symptoms, many researches have indicated that mild cognitive impairment is common in non-demented pd patients. the purpose of this study was to compare verbal fluency performance in non-demented parkinson's disease patients with healthy controls.in this cross-sectional study thirty non-demented parkinson's disease patients a...

Grouping words into meaningful chunks is a fundamental process for fluent reading. The present study is an attempt to understand the relationship between chunking and second language (L2) reading fluency. The effects of text segmentation on comprehension, rate, and regression in L2 reading were investigated using a self-paced reading task in a moving-window condition. The participants were inte...

It is commonly agreed that learner target language output and spoken interaction are essential to communicative learning. This video-based classroom observation study of five lower secondary schools in Norway investigated how second (L2) English third (L3) French teachers responded their students when they spoke the class. Using categories functions from research corrective feedback research, L...

Debate pedagogy may hold great potential for improving second language (L2) writing skills. This study investigates this by examining the effects of a debate intervention on quality argumentative essays Dutch secondary school students. The consisted number speaking and activities, including case-writing note-taking. study, which employed pretest–posttest–delayed-posttest design with control gro...