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Direct linkEllis, Rod; Roever, Carsten – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This article presents a review of research that has investigated ways of measuring implicit and explicit knowledge of a second language (L2), focusing on grammar. It begins by defining implicit and explicit knowledge in terms of a distinguishing set of criteria. Two ways of investigating implicit knowledge are discussed -- through experimental…
Descriptors: Grammar, Second Language Learning, Metalinguistics, Psycholinguistics
Caprario, Marcella; Taguchi, Naoko; Reppen, Randi – Language Learning Journal, 2022
Pragmatic markers perform important communicative functions, but they can be difficult to learn in a second language because of their multifunctionality and lack of salience during communicative events. This study has two goals: (1) to describe the communicative functions of the pragmatic marker "I mean" in academic discourse; and (2) to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Computational Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Savic, Milica; Myrset, Anders; Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria – Language Learning Journal, 2022
The present study explores the ways in which young EFL learners draw on lived experiences, viewed as interactional experiences in L1 or L2 which they have participated in or observed, to ground their metapragmatic understandings. Building on previous research with adult (e.g. McConachy 2018) and young learners (Savic 2021; Savic and Myrset 2021),…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Metalinguistics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kargar, Aliasghar; Ahmadi, Alireza – Language Learning Journal, 2023
As language acquisition research supports the value of the interactive scaffolded environment and awareness-raising communicative tasks for the development of pragmatic knowledge, the present study attempted to investigate the effect of Collaborative Translation Task (CTT) on learning and retention of request speech act strategies. The main…
Descriptors: Translation, Task Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shirinbakhsh, Salva; Rasekh, Abbass Eslami; Tavakoli, Mansoor – Language Learning Journal, 2018
Recent findings in the field of pragmatics have revealed that pragmatic accuracy (knowledge) and pragmatic speed (processing ability) function as two distinct and non-parallel components of pragmatic competence. Anderson's adaptive control of thought--rational (ACT-R) model, which emphasises the development of skill through repeated practice,…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tarsoly, Eszter; Valijarvi, Riitta-Liisa – Language Learning Journal, 2011
This paper discusses the role of various linguistic sub-disciplines in teaching Finnish and Hungarian. We sketch the profile of the two languages, including difficulties in learning and teaching them, and the context in which they are taught in the UK. Using examples from our own teaching, we argue that a linguistically oriented approach is well…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Finno Ugric Languages, Hungarian, Second Language Learning
