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Hazrat, Mandana; Read, John – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
The Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) is a framework for designing vocabulary-learning tasks which was proposed by Batia Laufer and Jan Hulstijn in 2001. It assumes that task effectiveness depends on three components induced by a task: a motivational component (need) and two cognitive components (search and evaluation). The hypothesis has been…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Vocabulary Development, Language Research, Evidence
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Costley, Tracey; Reilly, Colin – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Linguistic ethnography provides insight into how communication occurs between individuals and institutions, while situating these local actions within wider social, political and historical contexts (Copland & Creese, 2015) and has proven to be a particularly effective tool for developing our understanding of individuals' lived multilingual…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Research, Ethnography, Research Methodology
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Pinner, Richard S.; Sampson, Richard J. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2021
Humanizing complexity research is already strongly advocated by much of the literature on complexity (Kramsch, 2011; Larsen-Freeman, 2011; Sampson, 2016) and yet there is a recent trend towards a potentially alienating approach, which could confound readers, utilising a dense vocabulary and overly technical methods. We advocate a more practical…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Language Research, Humanization
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Derrick, Deirdre J. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2016
Second language (L2) researchers often have to develop or change the instruments they use to measure numerous constructs (Norris & Ortega, 2012). Given the prevalence of researcher-developed and -adapted data collection instruments, and given the profound effect instrumentation can have on results, thorough reporting of instrumentation is…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Research, Research Methodology, Interrater Reliability
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Loewen, Shawn; Lavolette, Elizabeth; Spino, Le Anne; Papi, Mostafa; Schmidtke, Jens; Sterling, Scott; Wolff, Dominik – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
The importance of statistical knowledge in applied linguistics and second language acquisition (SLA) research has been emphasized in recent publications. However, the last investigation of the statistical literacy of applied linguists occurred more than 25 years ago (Lazaraton, Riggenbach, & Ediger, 1987). The current study undertook a partial…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Applied Linguistics, Language Research, Second Language Learning
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Cancino, Herlinda; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
The appearance of English auxiliaries in the speech of five native speakers of Spanish is described, as well as these subjects' acquisition of the negative and interrogative transformations. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Research, Learning Processes, Negative Forms (Language)
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Freeman, Diane E. Larsen – TESOL Quarterly, 1975
A study is reported investigating whether reported sequence of acquisition of grammatical morphemes for second language learners would be found to exist in tasks other than that requiring speech production. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, English (Second Language), Language Research, Language Skills
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Schumann, John H. – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
This paper summarizes the presentations given at the 1974 TESOL Convention, and includes discussion of second language learning universals, statistical techniques for analyzing morphemes, data collection techniques and tests of hypotheses about the nature of the second language learning process. (CK)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Conference Reports, Data Collection, Discourse Analysis
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White, Ronald V. – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
The concept of register refers to variations in language determined by function, medium and formality or style. An examination of the registers of verb forms and noun phrases yielded results important to the writer of English language courses. (CK)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Language Research
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Ervin-Tripp, Susan – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Descriptors: Child Language, English, French, Interference (Language)
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Zirkel, Perry A. – TESOL Quarterly, 1974
Paper presented at the 1973 TESOL Convention in San Juan, Puerto Rico. (HW)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Charts, Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
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Tarone, Elaine; And Others – TESOL Quarterly, 1976
Limitations of language acquisition research are: the restricted linguistic scope of studies; lack of data in cognitive processes and learning strategies, the role of individual variables, second language acquisition, and the role of social and environmental variables; and undeveloped methodology for data collection and data analysis. (SCC)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Interlanguage
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Lamendella, John T. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
Reexamines the question of why pattern practice fails by hypothesizing about the information processing activities that they entail. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Cognitive Processes, English (Second Language), Language Instruction
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Huebner, Thom – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This paper reports on the development of the article system in an adult's interlanguage over a one-year period. It compares the results of a conventional order-of-acquisition analysis with a paradigm model based on Bickerton (1975). (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Grammar, Interference (Language)
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Gaies, Stephen J. – TESOL Quarterly, 1979
This paper discusses a study designed to survey English as a second language readers for the purpose of determining whether a range of syntactic gradation can be observed, and the degree to which readers intended for the same level of proficiency are of equivalent difficulty. (Author/CFM)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Instructional Materials, Language Instruction, Language Research
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