Theories and practices in second language reading pedagogy often overlook the sentence processing description from psycholinguistics perspective. Second comprehension is easily associated with vocabulary learning or discourse strategy. Yet, such activities can lead to an unnatural way of as translating vocabularies pointing out information required. Meanwhile authentic should encourage a natura...

The main goal of modern second language (L2) pedagogy is to engender appropriate communication skills among its learners. Hence, willingness communicate (WTC) in L2 emerged as an important variable recent years. Several factors have been found influence students’ WTC directly or indirectly. For this purpose, many scales and questionnaires developed so far examine the influencing students. Howev...

The skill of argumentation in the second language (L2) is problematic for secondary school students who are deficient expressing structurally and qualitatively appropriate arguments. Debate has been widely acclaimed as an effective pedagogical tool that can improve L2 skills students. However, existing evidence anecdotal. This intervention study, which employed a pretest-posttest control group ...

This paper discusses a data-driven learning (DDL) tool, which consists of a learner corpus for L2 learners of German. The learner corpus, in addition to submissions from ongoing current users, has been constructed from millions of submissions from a variety of activity types of approximately 5000 learners who used the E-Tutor CALL system over a period of five years. By following a cyclical proc...

Collaborative learning has placed an emphasis on co-constructing knowledge by sharing and negotiating meaning for problem-solving activities, and this cannot be accomplished without governing the self-regulatory processes of students. This study employed a Web-based tool, Google Docs, to determine the effects of Webbased collaboration on vocabulary improvements among learners of English as a fo...

Aim: Previous evidence suggests that language influences bilinguals’ moral judgements. One explanation for this phenomenon is using a second (L2) attenuates emotional arousal, thus leading to more rational decisions. This study examined whether arguments and vocabulary are influenced by the – first (L1) or L2 in which dilemma presented. Methodology data analysis: A mixed-methods design was empl...

An important topic in writing research has been the use of cohesive features. Much of this research has focused on local and text cohesion. The few studies that have studied global cohesion have been restricted to first language writing. This study investigates the development of local, global, and text cohesion in the writing of 57 s language (L2) university students and examines the effects o...

Jeremy Cross Nanyang Technological University Informed by dual coding theory, this study explores the role of the visual content in L2 listeners’ comprehension of news videotexts. L1 research into the visual characteristics and comprehension of news videotexts is outlined, subsequently informing the quantitative analysis of audiovisual correspondence in the news videotexts used. In each of five...