Given the growing importance of English as a lingua franca, this study examines which context (classroom instruction in the students' home country vs. studying abroad in an English-speaking country) better facilitates the acquisition of English by learners of different ages: children, adolescents and adults. Participants (N = 197) completed…

The 23rd EUROCALL conference was held in Cyprus from the 24th to the 27th of August 2016. The theme of the conference this year was "CALL Communities and Culture." It offered a unique opportunity to hear from real-world CALL practitioners on how they practice CALL in their communities, and how the CALL culture has developed in local and…

Advanced Danish students of English tried to identify the national origin of young men from Ireland, Scotland, England, and the United States from their speech and then rated the speech for attractiveness. Listeners rated speech produced by Englishmen as most attractive, and speech by Americans as least attractive. (Author/VWL)

Identifies the language learning strategies associated with the achievement of higher levels of oral proficiency in German for 100 Irish students about to complete their second year at Dublin City University. Investigates the way in which these strategies are used by those with higher and lower levels of proficiency. (Author/VWL)

Uses a corpus of spoken English from an Irish university setting to examine how engaged listenership is signaled in meetings between tutors and graduate students. Three strategies examined include minimal response tokens, non-minimal tokens, and simultaneous speech and interruptions. These were found to differ quantitatively and functionally and…

Assesses the changes in the use of language learning strategies by 18 Irish students of German over the course of their 4-year undergraduate degree. The Strategy Inventory for Language Leaning was used to assess the use of language learning strategies by these students in year 2 and again in year 4. (VWL)