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Researching and Practicing Positive Psychology in Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: The Past, Current Status and Future Directions Open
In addressing the recent special issue in Frontiers in Psychology , namely “ Positive Psychology in Foreign and Second Language Education: Approaches and Applications ,” calling language education researchers around the globe to study posi…
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The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition Open
This review article presents evidence for the claim that frequency effects are pervasive in children's first language acquisition, and hence constitute a phenomenon that any successful account must explain. The article is organized around …
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The Flowering of Positive Psychology in Foreign Language Teaching and Acquisition Research Open
The present contribution offers an overview of a new area of research in the field of foreign language acquisition, which was triggered by the introduction of Positive Psychology (PP) (MacIntyre and Gregersen, 2012). For many years, a cogn…
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Terminology matters! Why difference is not incompleteness and how early child bilinguals are heritage speakers Open
This paper integrates research on child simultaneous bilingual acquisition more directly into the heritage language acquisition literature. The child simultaneous bilingual literature mostly focuses on development in childhood, whereas her…
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Does the effect of enjoyment outweigh that of anxiety in foreign language performance? Open
Interest in the effect of positive and negative emotions in foreign language acquisition has soared recently because of the positive psychology movement (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014, 2016; MacIntyre, Gregersen & Mercer, 2016). No work so far…
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A translanguaging view of the linguistic system of bilinguals Open
Two conceptions of the linguistic system of bilinguals are in contention. The translanguaging approach supports what we call a unitary view, arguing that bilingualism and multilingualism, despite their importance as sociocultural concepts,…
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Interaction and instructed second language acquisition Open
Interaction is an indispensable component in second language acquisition (SLA). This review surveys the instructed SLA research, both classroom and laboratory-based, that has been conducted primarily within the interactionist approach, beg…
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The dynamic interactions in foreign language classroom anxiety and foreign language enjoyment of pupils aged 12 to 18. A pseudo-longitudinal investigation Open
The combined effect of positive and negative emotions in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has attracted the attention of researchers influenced by the Positive Psychology movement (Dewaele & MacIntyre, 2014; 2016a). The current study is b…
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How diverse is child language acquisition research? Open
A comprehensive theory of child language acquisition requires an evidential base that is representative of the typological diversity present in the world’s 7000 or so languages. However, languages are dying at an alarming rate, and the nex…
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Looking ahead: Future directions in, and future research into, second language acquisition Open
This article begins by situating modern‐day second language acquisition (SLA) research in a historical context, tracing its evolution from cognitive to social to sociocognitive accounts. Next, the influence of the zeitgeist is considered. …
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Learning L2 collocations incidentally from reading Open
Previous studies have shown that intentional learning through explicit instruction is effective for the acquisition of collocations in a second language (L2) (e.g. Peters, 2014, 2015), but relatively little is known about the effectiveness…
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The development of shared syntax in second language learning Open
According to Hartsuiker et al.'s (2004) shared-syntax account bilinguals share syntactic representations across languages whenever these representations are similar enough. But how does such a system develop in the course of second languag…
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Linguistic diversity in first language acquisition research: Moving beyond the challenges Open
The field of first language acquisition (FLA) needs to take into account data from the broadest typological array of languages and language-learning environments if it is to identify potential universals in child language development, and …
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Rethinking the critical period for language: New insights into an old question from American Sign Language Open
The hypothesis that children surpass adults in long-term second-language proficiency is accepted as evidence for a critical period for language. However, the scope and nature of a critical period for language has been the subject of consid…
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Plasticity, Variability and Age in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Open
Much of what is known about the outcome of second language acquisition and bilingualism can be summarized in terms of inter-individual variability, plasticity and age. The present review looks at variability and plasticity with respect to …
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Social Dimensions and Processes in Second Language Acquisition: Multilingual Socialization in Transnational Contexts Open
Social aspects of second language acquisition (SLA) and the contexts in which people attempt to learn and use languages and seek to become integrated within new and changing cultures have been examined for decades from various theoretical …
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Learning to perceive and recognize a second language: the L2LP model revised Open
We present a test of a revised version of the Second Language Linguistic Perception (L2LP) model, a computational model of the acquisition of second language (L2) speech perception and recognition. The model draws on phonetic, phonological…
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Task-based language teaching and learning Open
Task-based language teaching (TBLT) constitutes both an innovative language teaching method and a thriving area of investigation in the field of second language acquisition (SLA). The past three de...
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Variability and Variation in Second Language Acquisition Orders: A Dynamic Reevaluation Open
The traditional morpheme order studies in second language acquisition have tried to demonstrate the existence of a fixed order of acquisition of English morphemes, regardless of the second language learner's background. Such orders have be…
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Native language change during early stages of second language learning Open
Research on proficient bilinguals has demonstrated that both languages are always active, even when only one is required. The coactivation of the two languages creates both competition and convergence, facilitating the processing of cognat…
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Language learning and study abroad Open
The aim of this review is to synthesize empirical studies on undergraduate language learners’ experience abroad during a time period of a year or less. To help provide a framework to this synthesis, we begin our review by tracing the recen…
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Positioning an Agenda on a Loving Pedagogy in Second Language Acquisition: Conceptualization, Practice, and Research Open
Second/foreign language teaching has been found as one of the most emotional professions worldwide. To generate optimal academic outcomes and run an effective education, teachers and students’ emotions and feelings must be positively cared…
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A Review of Mobile Language Learning Applications: Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities Open
Mobile language learning applications, having exploded in popularity and growth, have the potential to transform the way languages are learned. This study examined the fifty most popular commercially-available language learning application…
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Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition Open
In this article, I argue that first language (L1), second language (L2) and third language (L3) acquisition are fundamentally the same process, based on learning by parsing. Both child and adult learners are sensitive to fine linguistic di…
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Interaction Mindsets, Interactional Behaviors, and L2 Development: An Affective‐Social‐Cognitive Model Open
This classroom‐based study explored links among second language (L2) learners’ interaction mindsets, interactional behaviors, and L2 development in the context of peer interaction. While peer interaction research has revealed that certain …
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A systematic review of transfer studies in third language acquisition Open
The present systematic review examines what factors determine when, how and to what extent previous linguistic experience (from the first language, second language or both languages) affects the initial stages and beyond of adult third lan…
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Contexts and pragmatics learning: Problems and opportunities of the study abroad research Open
Despite different epistemologies and assumptions, all theories in second language (L2) acquisition emphasize the centrality of context in understanding L2 acquisition. Under the assumption that language emerges from use in context, the cog…
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Research into practice: The task-based approach to instructed second language acquisition Open
This article discusses the phenomenon of task-based language teaching (TBLT) in instructed additional language settings. It begins from the premise that, despite considerable theoretical and empirical support, TBLT remains a contested ende…
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Early child L2 acquisition: Age or input effects? Neither, or both? Open
This paper explores whether there is evidence for age and/or input effects in child L2 acquisition across three different linguistic domains, namely morphosyntax, vocabulary, and syntax–semantics. More specifically, it compares data from E…
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The Acquisition of Murrinhpatha (Northern Australia) Open
This chapter reports on initial findings of an ongoing large-scale research project into the acquisition of Murrinhpatha, a polysynthetic language of the Daly River region of the Northern Territory of Australia with complex morphology. The…