language teaching

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. i-i
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
L2 Listening ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University

In this issue's state-of-the-art article, Larry Vandergrift suggests that L2 listening remains the least understood and the least researched of all four skills. His paper focuses on a number of areas central to the topic, including the implicit nature of the listening product and process, the cognitive dimensions of the listening skill, listening tasks and the assessment of the skill.The present issue of Language Teaching sees the start of a new series, surveying recent research in some of the most widely-taught L2s. It can be argued that nowadays too much L2 research is focussed on English, and there is very often an implied assumption that ‘one size fits all’ in methodological terms for all languages, which is clearly not the case. We also feel that this journal needs to serve its readers more comprehensively by providing an accessible and regular means of obtaining information about research into languages other than English. Michael Evans opens the series with a review of research on L2 French; reviews of research into L2 German, Spanish, Japanese, Italian and Chinese are currently being prepared.This issue also sees the start of another regular section, wherein we will be publishing plenary and invited speeches from recent language teaching and second language acquisition conferences around the world. Many of these speeches are of fundamental interest to a community wider than those present at such events. To begin the series, Fred Davidson with Glenn Fulcher discuss the flexible language of the Common European Framework of References for Languages and explore the pragmatic utility of such language to guide language test development, and William Littlewood discusses the problems encountered in incorporating new methodologies developed in Europe into East Asian educational institutions. In future issues, we will be presenting speeches from events as diverse as the annual conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the conference of the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand, and papers based on the invited speakers' lecture series at the University of Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Richard Johnstone's article in which he reviews research on language teaching, learning and policy published in 2004 and 2005 is available online in Language Teaching 39.4 (2006), at http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_LTA.

Acquiring variable commands at home and abroad: Examining optatives and imperatives in L1 and L2 Spanish

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-113
Author(s):  
Farrah Neumann ◽  
Matthew Kanwit
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Individual ◽  
At Home

AbstractSince many linguistic structures are variable (i. e. conveyed by multiple forms), building a second-language grammar critically involves developing sociolinguistic competence (Canale and Swain. 1980. Theoretical bases of communicative approaches to second language teaching and testing. Applied Linguistics 1(1). 1–47), including knowledge of contexts in which to use one form over another (Bayley and Langman. 2004. Variation in the group and the individual: Evidence from second language acquisition. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching 42(4). 303–318). Consequently, researchers interested in such competence have increasingly analyzed the study-abroad context to gauge learners’ ability to approximate local norms following a stay abroad, due to the quality and quantity of input to which learners may gain access (Lafford. 2006. The effects of study abroad vs. classroom contexts on Spanish SLA: Old assumptions, new insights and future research directions. In Carol Klee & Timothy Face (eds.), Selected proceedings of the 7th conference on the acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as first and second languages, 1–25. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project). Nevertheless, the present study is the first to examine native or learner variation between imperative (e. g. ven ‘come’) and optative Spanish commands (e. g. que vengas ‘come’). We first performed a corpus analysis to determine the linguistic factors to manipulate in a contextualized task, which elicited commands from learners before and after four weeks abroad in Alcalá de Henares, Spain. Their overall rates of selection and predictive factors were compared to local native speakers (NSs) and a control group of at-home learners.Results revealed that the abroad learners more closely approached NS rates of selection following the stay abroad. Nonetheless, for both learner groups conditioning by independent variables only partially approximated the NS system, which was more complex than previously suggested.

scholarly journals Treasuring languages: an introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Alessia Plutino ◽  
Kate Borthwick ◽  
Erika Corradini
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
The University ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Value Of Learning ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

This volume collects selected papers from the 9th annual conference in the Innovative Language Teaching and Learning at University series (InnoConf), which was hosted by the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton on the 28th of June 2019. The theme of the conference was ‘Treasuring languages: innovative and creative approaches in Higher Education (HE)’. The conference aimed to address the consistent decline in recent years in applications to study languages at UK universities by igniting discussions and seeking innovative and creative approaches to raising awareness about the value of learning languages.

scholarly journals Language teaching

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Defense Language Institute ◽  
Language And Education ◽  
Modern Language Journal

07–01Arkoudis, Sophie (U Melbourne, Australia; [email protected]), Fusing pedagogic horizons: Language and content teaching in the mainstream. Linguistics and Education (Elsevier) 16.2 (2005), 173–187.07–02Barwell, Richard (U Bristol, UK; [email protected]), Integrating language and content: Issues from the mathematics classroom. Linguistics and Education (Elsevier) 16.2 (2005), 205–218.07–03Cheng, An Chung (U Toledo, USA) & Clara C. Mojica-Diaz, The effects of formal instruction and study abroad on improving proficiency: The case of the Spanish subjunctive. Applied Language Learning (Defense Language Institute) 16.1 (2006), 17–36.07–04Creese, Angela (U Birmingham, UK; [email protected]), Is this content-based language teaching?Linguistics and Education (Elsevier) 16.2 (2005), 188–204.07–05Davison, Chris (U Hong Kong, China; [email protected]), Learning your lines: Negotiating language and content in subject English. Linguistics and Education (Elsevier) 16.2 (2005), 219–237.07–06Freiermuth, Mark & Douglas Jarrell (Gunma Prefectural Women's U, Japan; [email protected]), Willingness to communicate: Can online chat help?International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Blackwell) 16.2 (2006), 189–212.07–07Haworth, Avril (Manchester Metropolitan U, UK), The literacy maze: Walking through or stepping round?Language and Education (Mutilingual Matters) 20.2 (2006), 95–109.07–08Jenkins, Jennifer (King's College London, UK; [email protected]), Points of view and blind spots: ELF and SLA. International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Blackwell) 16.2 (2006), 137–162.07–09Kaur, Jagdish & Volker Hegelheimer (Iowa State U, USA), ESL students' use of concordance in the transfer of academic word knowledge: An exploratory study. Computer Assisted Language Learning (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) 18.4 (2005), 287–310.07–10Lyster, Roy (McGill U, Canada; [email protected]) & Hirohide Mori, Interactional feedback and instructional counterbalance.Studies in Second Language Acquisition (Cambridge University Press) 28.2 (2006), 269–300.07–11Nakatani, Yasuo (Nakamura Gakuen U, Japan; [email protected]), Developing an oral communication strategy inventory. The Modern Language Journal (Blackwell) 90.2 (2006), 151–168.07–12Naughton, Diane (U Granada, Spain; [email protected]), Cooperative strategy training and oral interaction: Enhancing small group communication in the language classroom. The Modern Language Journal (Blackwell) 90.2 (2006) 169–184.07–13Pauwels, Anne (U Western Australia, Australia) & Joanne Winter, Gender inclusivity or ‘Grammar rules OK’? Linguistic prescriptivism vs. linguistic discrimination in the classroom. Language and Education (Mutilingual Matters) 20.2 (2006), 128–140.07–14Peled-Elhanan, Nurit (Hebrew U Jerusalem & Tel-Aviv U, Israel) & Shoshana Blum-Kulka, Dialogue in the Israeli classroom: Types of teacher-student talk. Language and Education (Mutilingual Matters) 20.2 (2006), 110–127.07–15Plonsky, Luke & Susana V. Mills (Northern Arizona U, USA), An exploratory study of differing perceptions of error correction between a teacher and students: Bridging the gap. Applied Language Learning (Defense Language Institute) 16.1 (2006), 55–77.07–16Strauss, Susan (Pennsylvania State U, USA; [email protected]), Jihye Lee & Kyungja Ahn, Applying conceptual grammar to advanced-level language teaching: The case of two completive constructions in Korean. The Modern Language Journal (Blackwell) 90.2 (2006) 185–209.07–17Vizconde, Camilla (U San Tomas, Philippines; [email protected]), English language instruction in the Philippine basic education program. RELC Journal (Sage) 37.2 (2006), 260–273.07–18Wallen, Matthew (U Limerick, Ireland) & Helen Kelly-Holmes, ‘I think they just think it's going to go away at some stage’: Policy and practice in teaching English as an additional language in Irish primary schools. Language and Education (Mutilingual Matters) 20.2 (2006), 141–161.07–19Wedin, Asa (Högskolan Dalarna, Falun, Sweden), Literacy practices in rural Tanzania: The case of Karagwe. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (Multilingual Matters) 27.3 (2006), 225–240.

The rediscovery of vocabulary

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Meara
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Computational Linguistics ◽  
Vocabulary Acquisition ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Current Work

This article reviews four recent books of current research in vocabulary acquisition. Vocabulary acquisition has moved from being a neglected backwater in second language acquisition (SLA) to a position of some importance, and this importance looks like increasing as lexical issues become more central to theoretical linguistics.The review suggests, however, that most vocabulary research in applied linguistics is based on a narrow linguistic agenda that was to a large extent defined by the concerns of the vocabulary control movement in the 1920s, particularly the work of H.E. Palmer and his successors (Smith, 1998; Institute of Research in Language Teaching, 2000). Current work in psycholinguistics and computational linguistics does not seem to have made much of an impact on the field, and this has led to a serious divergence between the theories of vocabulary acquisition that appear in these books, and the theories that are developing in other related fields.

scholarly journals Five years of ELEUK conferences: a selection of short papers from 2019

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Student Agency ◽  
Foreign Language Pedagogy ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This anniversary volume of the Association for the Teaching of Spanish in Higher Education in the United Kingdom is a compilation of contributions made by members and delegates at the 2019 ELEUK annual conference held at the University of Edinburgh. Throughout the book, authors share their teaching, assessment, and research practice in the area of Spanish Language Teaching (SLT). From strategies to enhance student engagement and foster student agency to reflections on language teaching practice from diverse angles, these nine short papers contribute to current debates around foreign language pedagogy, with a focus on teaching Spanish in the higher education context.

scholarly journals New directions for the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Annual Review ◽  
Language Pedagogy ◽  
Bilingual Communities

To begin with some history, reflecting the breadth of the field, the 35 issues of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (ARAL) published since 1980 have covered a substantial range of topics. These have included broad surveys of the field of applied linguistics; language and language-in-education; identity; written discourse; literacy; bilingual communities worldwide; language and the professions; communicative language teaching; second language acquisition research; discourse analysis; issues in foreign language teaching and learning; language policy and planning; technology and language; multilingualism; foundations of second language teaching; applied linguistics as an emerging discipline; language and psychology; discourse and dialogue; language contact and change; advances in language pedagogy; lingua franca languages; neurolinguistics; cognitive aspects of language processing; language assessment; and formulaic language.

scholarly journals Reflection on digital language teaching, learning, and assessment in times of crisis: a view from Italy

2021 ◽  
pp. 279-293
Author(s):  
Maria Freddi
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Education ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Construction Engineering ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Language

This chapter is a reflective account of the author’s experience as a teacher of English at the University of Pavia during the first wave of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. It considers the design and delivery of an English for architecture and construction engineering course as well as the assessment stage of a text analysis course. It proceeds by presenting and discussing the decisions implemented as a consequence of the crisis situation and reflects on principles of English language teaching, learning, and assessment in general and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) in particular. In doing so, it addresses the book project rationale as an opportunity to reflect on the adjustments made to various planning and design factors informing language education during the health crisis and thought to be generalisable to language teaching, learning, and assessment in the global digital world. It concludes with thoughts on what the future of digital language teaching, learning, and assessment could look like.

scholarly journals An Interview with Henry Widdowson

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Chantal Hemmi ◽  
Graham Mackenzie ◽  
Katsuya Yokomoto
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
English Medium Instruction ◽  
The University

Welcome colleagues! For the last issue of 2019, we present a very special interview with Professor Henry Widdowson, an acclaimed authority in the field of applied linguistics who has made great contributions to the development of communicative language teaching. In this conversation, Professor Widdowson discusses English Language Learning in Japan in the context of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), English Medium Instruction (EMI), and English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). Professor Widdowson is Emeritus Professor at the University of London, was Professor of Applied Linguistics at Essex University and is currently Honorary Professor at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna. He has published extensively on English language teaching and applied linguistics. Here he was interviewed by Chantal Hemmi, an Associate Professor, Graham Mackenzie, a Project Associate Professor, and Katsuya Yokomoto, a Lecturer at the Center of Language Education and Research at Sophia University.

scholarly journals JALT2014 Plenary Speaker article: Foreign language teaching and the multilingual subject

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Peter Hourdequin
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
International Association ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Foreign Language Education ◽  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations ◽  
The University

Claire Kramsch is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Applied Linguistics and directs doctoral dissertations in the German Department and in the Graduate School of Education. She has written extensively on language, discourse, and culture in foreign language education. Two of her books, Context and Culture in Language Teaching (OUP, 1993) and The Multilingual Subject (OUP, 2009) won the Mildenberger Award from the American Modern Language Association. She is the past president of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and the current president of the International Association of Applied Linguistics.

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