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.

language teaching

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. i-i
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Language Awareness ◽  
Australian Association ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Critical Language Awareness

In her review of Language Awareness (LA), Agneta Svalberg shows how its multidisciplinary nature and wide scope make it particularly suited to dealing with the complexities of language. After a brief discussion of definitions, she reviews the place of LA in teaching languages. The author considers also other aspects of LA including critical language awareness, intercultural language awareness and multilingualism.The new series of plenary and keynote speeches from international applied linguistics and second language acquisition conferences continues in this issue with an adapted version of the speech given at the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand symposium in 2006 by Cynthia White and with Patricia Duff's speech given at the Pacific Second Language Research Forum and Australian Association of Applied Linguistics joint conference in the same year.The present issue of Language Teaching is the last one in which we include the Abstracts section. In future volumes, starting with volume 41 in January 2008, the state-of-the-art articles will continue to present research on specific topics. A new strand of articles will survey recent second language acquisition and teaching research conducted in individual countries and another new strand will survey research on the teaching of languages other than English. The plenary and keynote speeches series, and the section with annual reports from research groups around the world will continue to feature in the new-look journal. A further section will be allocated to empirical research papers which follow a replication approach in their methodology.

BAAL/CUP seminars 2005

2007 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
British Association ◽  
Cambridge University

As part of their commitment to research in applied linguistics, The British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) and Cambridge University Press annually support a number of seminars on applied linguistics and second language acquisition. Starting this volume, Language Teaching will be publishing specially-commissioned reports on the seminars.

scholarly journals From the editor

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Rahimi
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Second Language Teaching

 From the Editor Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali RahimiMessage from EditorDear Readers,It is a great honor for us to publish August 2016 - Vol 6, No 3 of Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching (GJFLT).Please follow the link below:http://www.gjflt.eu/Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching welcomes original empirical investigations and comprehensive literature review articles focusing on foreign language teaching and topics related to linguistics. GJFLT is an international journal published quarterly and it is a platform for presenting and discussing the emerging developments in foreign language teaching in an international arena.The scope of the journal includes, but is not limited to the following major topics: Cultural studies, Curriculum Development and Syllabus Design, Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), General Linguistics, Globalization Studies and world English’s, Independent/Autonomous Learning, Information and Computer Technology in TEFL, Innovation in language, Teaching and learning, Intercultural Education, Language acquisition and learning, Language curriculum development, Language education, Language program evaluation, Language Testing and Assessment, Literacy and language learning, Literature, Mobile Language Learning, Pragmatics, Second Language, Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition Theory, Digital Literacy Skills, Second Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Second language Pedagogy, Second Language Proficiency, Second Language Speech, Second Language Teaching, Second Language Training, Second Language Tutor, Second language Vocabulary Learning, Teaching English as a Foreign/ Second Language, Teaching Language Skills, Translation Studies, Applied linguistics, Cognitive linguistics. Keyword and Full Video Captioning in Listening Comprehension, Infants’ Acquisition of Words Before Concepts, Pragmatics, Task Complexity , Language Use of Patients With Early-Onset Alzheimer’s Disease, Headings in Theses and Research Articles in Applied Linguistics, and Developing Intercultural Competence have been included in this issue. The topics of the next issue will be different. We are trying to serve you with our journal with a rich knowledge through which different kinds of topics will be discussed in 2017 issues.We present many thanks to all the contributors who helped us to publish this issue.Best regards,Associate Professor Dr. Ali Rahimi,Editor – in Chief, Bangkok University

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 Christopher Brumfit Award 2014

2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-433
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Quality Of Presentation

The Editor and Board of Language Teaching are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2014 Christopher Brumfit thesis award is Dr Hilde van Zeeland. The thesis was selected by an external panel of judges based on its significance to the field of second language acquisition, second or foreign language learning and teaching, originality and creativity and quality of presentation.

English or Englishes?

2022 ◽  
pp. 1560-1574
Author(s):  
Aicha Rahal
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
The World ◽  
Considerable Debate

The discipline of World Englishes has been one of the most thriving branches of English linguistics. This branch has become the focal focus of considerable debate. The chapter mainly aims to show the multilingual reality of English. It is an attempt to answer the question “Do we have English or Englishes?” The chapter tries to study the recent situation of English as a lingua franca. It first gives an overview of the spread of English and the emergence of new Englishes. Then, it presents the principals of traditional applied linguistics and second language acquisition. It also discusses the concepts of World Englishes, multilingualism, and pluralism. After that, the chapter presents the World Englishes debate to show the gap between monocentrists and pluralists. Finally, the study sheds light on the fact that Englishes reflect the multilingual reality of English.

Neurological Bimodality and Theories of Language Teaching

1988 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcel Danesi
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Cerebral Hemisphere ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Second Language Teaching ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Perceptual Modalities

The failure of the method notion in second language teaching has been attributed to a series of valid pedagogical and socioeducational factors. The concept of neurological bimodality, which posits that effective language learning in a classroom environment requires the utilization of the perceptual modalities associated with each cerebral hemisphere, offers a more fundamental, neurologically related diagnosis of this failure. This paper looks at the historiography of language teaching theories from the perspective of bimodality, and then concludes with specific suggestions vis-à-vis the kinds of research directions that might empirically substantiate the usefulness of this concept for second language acquisition in a classroom environment.

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