Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Second Language Acquisition and Learning

External reference: https://openalex.org/T11587

  1. Lexical richness showed a small, non-significant link to essay quality
    Analysis of 42 EFL students reveals weak correlation between lexical richness and argumentative essay quality, suggesting vocabulary sophistication alone minimally predicts writing performance.
  2. Perceived proficiency shapes emotions and speech fluency
    Study examining how Chinese EFL learners' perceived English proficiency influences task anxiety, enjoyment, boredom, and resulting speech fluency in oral tasks.
  3. Metadiscourse use differed in two dissertation disciplines
    Comparative study of metadiscourse in dissertation discussion chapters reveals discipline-specific rhetorical patterns in applied linguistics and sociology, with implications for doctoral writing.
  4. Article argues for case-control methods in corpus down-sampling
    Case-control down-sampling methodology for corpus research: methodological transfer from health sciences with terminological clarification and design principles.
  5. Multimodal communication supported students’ interpretation of notation
    Explore how embodied cognition and multimodal interaction with Grid Algebra software helps students understand mathematical notation through gesture, movement, and symbolic representation.
  6. Arabic influence linked to punctuation errors in English writing
    Contrastive analysis of English and Arabic punctuation systems examining interference patterns in Libyan learners' English writing through mixed-methods error analysis and questionnaire assessment.