As second language (L2) research adapts to the dynamics of multimodal instruction, researchers are exploring role captioning and textual enhancement (TE) on learner development. The present experiment assesses differential effects textually enhanced captions learners’ elicited imitation L2 Spanish grammar. Twenty-eight English-speaking intermediate learners saw 3 videos that focused gustar-type...

The field of second language acquisition (SLA) studies is characterized by two different traditions. One tradition is linguistic and focusses on the process by which learners build up their linguistic knowledge of the second language (L2). Here the focus is on learning. Human beings are credited with an innate capacity to learn language which explains why the process of learning manifests disti...

This paper describes a method for learner modelling for use within simulation-based learning environments. The goal of the learner modelling system is to provide the learner with advice on discovery learning. The system analyzes the evidence that a learner has generated for a specific hypothesis, assesses whether the learner needs support on the discovery process, and the nature of that support...

Learner preferences of students have been analysed within two modules that have been given in the department of media using Röll’s learner preference model. A qualitative analysis of the results of an online learner preference test based on this model has been conducted. This analysis showed that for the majority of the students the revealed results were valid. Starting from current methods use...

The study detailed in this article investigates the connection between L2 competency level of Vietnamese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners and Dörnyei's (2005, 2009) Second Motivational Self System (L2MSS). Descriptive inferential analyses collected data revealed expected—that components L2MSS were good predictor learners’ intended learning efforts. However, also established that lea...

This study explores the relationship between writing strategies and cohesion of writing, it compares how an ESL learner a native speaker English use to organize their written narratives. A text analysis demonstrates that used fewer connectives than English, produced less cohesive narrative. Next, taking qualitative approach, differences in products are related writers’ uses different processes....

Adult second-language (L2) learners’ perception of L2 phonetic segments is influenced by firstlanguage phonological and phonetic properties. It was recently proposed that L2 vocabulary size in adult learners is related to changes in L2 perception (perceptual assimilation model), analogous to the emergence of first-language phonological function (i.e., attunement to the phonological identity of ...

One of the theories accounting for pragmatic development of L2 learners is Vygotsky’s (1978) sociocultural  theory.  This  study  investigated  the  development  of  EFL  learners'  pragmatic competence through the lens of an important concept of Vygotsky’s theory, i.e.  the  zone  of proximal  development.  The  study  was  conducted  to  answer  two  questions.  The  first  question was wheth...

This study sets out to examine learner-learner oral interaction during a task-based virtual exchange carried online using video-based SCMC among 32 English and Spanish foreign language learners from two different universities. The video-recordings of three tasks in which took part pairs were analyzed identify, transcribe, code related episodes. These divided into episodes entirely Spanish, or b...