Top Research Papers on Language Learning

Based on fieldwork in Latvia, a former Soviet and new European Union state, this chapter details the results for experiences of literacy learning not only when people move across borders but also when borders themselves shift and change. Building from critiques of place-based literacy ethnographies, it documents three kinds of informal literacy learning—print literacy learning, digital literacy learning, and anticipatory literacy learning—resulting from the movement of people across shifting spatial and temporal fields. It draws from participants’ memories of living in Latvia during Soviet tim...

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involved fictitious negotiating situations between two fictitious cultures. The simulation consisted of two rounds of negotiations; after each round the negotiators returned to their respective cultures to report on the other culture and their methods of negotiation. Following the simulated negotiations, all students involved gathered for a plenary session to discuss and evaluate the proceedings. All students found the simulation to be a fun alternative to everyday teaching, and it led to much discussion of international business communication. Furthermore, the students found that it helped th...

06–20Abbott, Chris (King's College, U London, UK) & Alim Shaikh, Visual representation in the digital age: Issues arising from a case study of digital media use and representation by pupils in multicultural school settings. Language and Education (Multilingual Matters) 19.6 (2005), 455–466. 06–21Andreou, Georgia & Napoleon Mitsis (U Thessaly, Greece), Greek as a foreign language for speakers of Arabic: A study of medical students at the University of Thessaly. Language, Culture and Curriculum (Multilingual Matters) 18.2 (2005), 181–187. 06–22Aune, R. Kelly (U Hawaii at Manoa, USA; kaune@hawaii...

This article briefly traces the history of the National Standards for Foreign Languages in the United States and then addresses who is using the standards. The Center for Applied Linguistics, which designed a survey to determine the effect of national and state standards on public and private foreign language teachers in grades K(indergarten) to 12, reports that approximately half of the surveyed teachers are aware of national or state standards. Finally, the issue of how states are developing foreign language standards is addressed by examining the curricula of Minnesota, New Jersey, and Conn...

The article reveals the inherent human potentials and contradictions, discloses the essence of globalization in the context of metaphysical research methodology, its internal and external determinants are defined.

05–225 Acevedo Butcher, Carmen (Sogang U, Korea), The case against the ‘native speaker’. English Today (Cambridge, UK) 21.2 (2005), 13–24. 05–226 Barcroft, Joe & Mitchell S. Sommers (Washington U in St. Louis, USA; barcroft@wustl.edu), Effects of acoustic variability on second language vocabulary learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge, UK) 27.3 (2005), 387–414. 05–227 Barr, David, Jonathan Leakey & Alexandre Ranchoux (U of Ulster, UK), Told like it is! An evaluation of an integrated oral development pilot project. Language Learning & Technology (U of Hawaii, Manoa, USA) 9....

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The correlation between students' intensity of accessing multimedia technology products via the internet toward their listening skills and the result found that there is a moderate and negative correlation between the two variables.

how vocabulary development might be enhanced through helping the foreign learner of English to acquire productivity and non-productivity in English derivation. It is suggested that English productive derivatives be paid special attention in teaching to and learning by native-Arabic speakers, that the Arabic language is a language of derivation and is highly productive. The paper explores how adult native-Arabic speakers learning English as a foreign language acquire English productive and non-productive derivatives. Contrastive analysis (CA) is used to compare productivity in standard written ...

04–573 Akker, Evelien (Nijmegen U., The Netherlands; Email: e.akker@nici.kun.nl) and Cutler, Anne. Prosodic cues to semantic structure in native and non-native listening. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge, UK), 6, 2 (2003), 81–96. 04–574 Allen, Heather W. (University of Pittsburgh) and Herron, Carol A. mixed-methodology investigation of the linguistic and affective outcomes of summer study abroad. Foreign Language Annals (New York, USA), 36, 3 (2003), 370–385. 04–575 Barcroft, Joe (Washington U., MO, USA; Email: barcroft@artsci.wustl.edu). Effects of questions about word meaning ...

inspection, for their value resides in the bypassing of the analytical processes which encode and decode strings. Thus, Willis, Nattinger and DeCarrico, and Lewis are all pursuing native-like linguistic usage by promoting entirely K/mative-like processing behaviour. It is suggested that this non-alignment is only tractable if the classroom teaching of languages is fully acknowledged as artificial, even when the methods used appear'naturalistic'.

07–20Angelova, Maria (Cleveland State U, USA), Delmi Gunawardena & Dinah Volk, Peer teaching and learning: co-constructing language in a dual language first grade. Language and Education (Mutilingual Matters) 20.2 (2006), 173–190. 07–21Ansarin, Ali AkBar (Tabriz U, Iran; aa-ansarin@tabrizu.ac.ir), On availability of conscious knowledge in discrimination of vowel length. RELC Journal (Sage) 37.2 (2006), 249–259. 07–22Bent, Tessa (North Western U, USA; t-bent@northwestern.edu), Ann R. Bradlow & Beverly A.Wright, The influence of linguistic experience on the cognitive processing of pitch in speec...

Much study-abroad programme recruitment literature depicts the overseas experience as a short cut to linguistic fluency and cross-cultural understanding, a view that is also largely supported by research on the outcomes of a stay abroad. However, when the experience of learning to interact in a foreign language and of adapting to a foreign culture is viewed through the eyes of four American summer study-abroad students in Fiance, as reported here, a different perspective emerges. The findings of this study are seen as challenging many common beliefs about die overseas educational experience an...

This virtual classroom design provided a naturalistic environment for computer assisted language learning while motivating students to adapt more readily to interaction with peers in a varied, complex and uncertain environment.

The problem of crossing cultural boundaries in the task of learning and teaching English literacy is examined, with particular reference to dominant approaches to teaching literacy and unexamined assumptions about the use ofWestern models of language learning. The possibility that target groups of students in Asian (and especially mainland Chinese) contexts may not find these models conducive to effective learning of English is explored, and some features of Asian understandings of discourse and of preferred learning styles are discussed. It is argued that a systemic-functional theory of langu...

involved fictitious negotiating situations between two fictitious cultures. The simulation consisted of two rounds of negotiations; after each round the negotiators returned to their respective cultures to report on the other culture and their methods of negotiation. Following the simulated negotiations, all students involved gathered for a plenary session to discuss and evaluate the proceedings. All students found the simulation to be a fun alternative to everyday teaching, and it led to much discussion of international business communication. Furthermore, the students found that it helped th...

04–573 Akker, Evelien (Nijmegen U., The Netherlands; Email: e.akker@nici.kun.nl) and Cutler, Anne. Prosodic cues to semantic structure in native and non-native listening. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge, UK), 6, 2 (2003), 81–96. 04–574 Allen, Heather W. (University of Pittsburgh) and Herron, Carol A. mixed-methodology investigation of the linguistic and affective outcomes of summer study abroad. Foreign Language Annals (New York, USA), 36, 3 (2003), 370–385. 04–575 Barcroft, Joe (Washington U., MO, USA; Email: barcroft@artsci.wustl.edu). Effects of questions about word meaning ...

07–198 Agulló, G. (U Jaén, Spain; gluque@jaen.es), Overcoming age-related differences. ELT Journal (Oxford University Press) 60.4 (2006), 365–373. 07–199 Ammar, Ahlem (U de Montréal, Canada; ahlem.ammar@umontreal.ca) & Nina Spada, One size fits all? Recasts, prompts, and L2 learning. Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge University Press) 28.4 (2006), 543–574. 07–200 Bartram, Brendan (U Wolverhampton, UK), An examination of perceptions of parental influence on attitudes to language learning. Educational Research (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) 48.2 (2006), 211–221. 07–201 Bordag, Deni...

Language Learning strategies in Kuwait: links to gender, language level, and culture in a hybrid context and a comparison of form-focused activities.