Abstract Second language (L2) researchers have long acknowledged the role of anxiety in communication processes, such that learners with greater tend to be less willing engage communication. However, little research has explored links between L2 speakers’ perceptions conversation and dynamic measures anxiety. Therefore, this study measured 60 English galvanic skin response (a physiological inde...

We examined the relation of morphological awareness with language and literacy skills, namely phonological awareness, orthographic vocabulary, word reading, spelling, text reading fluency, comprehension. also potential moderators relations (grade level, depth language, receptive vs. productive inflectional derivational compound L1/L2 status). After systematic search, a total 232 articles (965 u...

one of the most problematic areas in foreign language learning is collocation. it is often seen as arbitrary and an overwhelming obstacle to the achievement of nativelike fluency. current second language (l2) instruction research has encouraged the use of collaborative output tasks in l2 classrooms. this study examined the effects of two types of output tasks (editing and cloze) on the learning...

This study examines how listener judgments of second language speech relate to individual differences in listeners’ phonological memory, attention control, and musical ability. Sixty native English listeners (30 music majors, 30 nonmusic majors) rated 40 nonnative speech samples for accentedness, comprehensibility, and fluency. The listeners were also assessed for phonological memory (serial re...

research on pre-task planning has revealed that planned conditions have produced more fluent and complex language than unplanned conditions. to date, most of these studies have investigated the effects of individual planning on language production while collaborative planning has received scant attention. to determine the effects of pre-task planning on second language written production, the p...

It is well known that bilinguals perform better in their first language (L1) than in their second lanaguage (L2) in a wide range of linguistic tasks. In recent studies, however, the authors have found that bilingual participants can demonstrate faster response times to L1 stimuli than to L2 stimuli in one classification task and the reverse in a different classification task. In the current stu...

Abstract Research into second language (L2) reading is an exponentially growing field. Yet, it still has a relatively short supply of comparable, ecologically valid data from readers representing variety first languages (L1). This article addresses this need by presenting new resource called MECO L2 (Multilingual Eye Movements Corpus), rich behavioral eye-tracking record text in English as amon...

The current mixed-method study investigated two groups of Korean-speaking short-term sojourners in Australia. One group (students) was composed learners enrolled English training programs, whereas the other (workers) workplace. We administered questionnaires and a semi-structured interview to examine their willingness communicate (WTC) as second language (L2) explored relationship between this ...

Abstract This article reports on a comprehensive synthesis of the literature role working memory in second language (L2) writing. It starts with an overview and clarification construct measurement memory, followed by elaboration major theoretical models informing synthesized research. The then presents methods results 16 studies that have been conducted associations between L2 methodological en...