this research study explored the impact of learning styles and input modalities on the second language (l2) learners' input processing (ip). this study also sought to appraise the usefulness of processing instruction (pi) and its components in relation to the learners' learning styles and input modalities. to this end, 73 male and female iranian efl learners from islamic azad universi...

When bilingual children enter formal reading education, host language proficiency becomes increasingly important. This study investigated the relation between socioeconomic status (SES), maternal language use, reading input, and vocabulary in a sample of 111 six-year-old children of first- and second-generation Turkish immigrant parents in the Netherlands. Mothers reported on their language use...

In goal oriented spoken language translation, an interlingua based approach has proven quite useful as it (1) reduces overall effort when multiple language pairs are required, (2) can provide a paraphrase of semantic equivalence in the input language, (3) abstracts away from the disfluencies of spoken language to express the speaker s intention. On the other hand, interlingua based systems are ...

Abstract The quantity of target language input available to learners contributes the understanding development. present paper reports on a longitudinal study relationship between amount non-native teachers’ EFL and learners’ aural achievement in instructed SLA. Young (N=132) were followed over three-year period. High variability teacher use was found. Results correlational analyses group compar...

In goal oriented spoken language translation, an interlingua based approach has proven quite useful as it (1) reduces overall effort when multiple language pairs are required, (2) can provide a paraphrase of semantic equivalence in the input language, (3) abstracts away from the disfluencies of spoken language to express the speaker’s intention. On the other hand, interlingua based systems are ...

Assessment is considered as one of the fundamental elements in the field of foreign language acquisition. In order for communication take place, adequate number of vocabulary is needed to be known by the learners. The salient role of vocabulary in the field of foreign language acquisition resulted in the publication of several hundreds of papers and dozens of books. Due to the dominant role of ...

Collocation is known as one of the most problematic areas in learning a second language and it seems that if one has tendency to improve his or her communication ability in another language, the elaboration of collocation using competence is among the most important issues. This study investigated the role of implicit input enhancement in teaching grammatical collocations for Iranian EFL learne...