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Conducting reanalysis-based secondary qualitative data analysis in language learning research 在语言学习研究中进行基于再分析的二次定性数据分析

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-10-20 DOI: 10.1017/s0272263126102022

Shotaro Ueno, Yohei Nakanishi, Osamu Takeuchi

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Validating the theory-informed Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL) as predictors of L2 proficiency: Initial evidence from multiple regression analyses 验证基于理论的语言学习能力倾向测试（TALL）作为二语熟练程度预测因子：来自多元回归分析的初步证据

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-10-06 DOI: 10.1017/s0272263126101995

Junlan Pan, Emma Marsden

{"title":"Validating the theory-informed Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL) as predictors of L2 proficiency: Initial evidence from multiple regression analyses","authors":"Junlan Pan, Emma Marsden","doi":"10.1017/s0272263126101995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263126101995","url":null,"abstract":"Tests of Aptitude for Language Learning (TALL) is a newly developed battery for L1 Chinese speakers that operationalizes language aptitude based on the early stages of Skehan’s (2016) Stages Approach through parallel aural and written suites. Each suite comprises subtests measuring associative memory, phonetic coding ability, language analytic ability, phonological short-term memory, and executive function of working memory. Using openly available data, this study examined TALL’s predictive validity through multiple regression analyses. Results from 165 L1-Chinese L2-English learners showed that the composite scores on the aural and written suites accounted for 12.5% and 13.1% of the variance in L2 proficiency, respectively. Models based on individual subtest scores accounted for 17.0% of the variance in L2 proficiency in the aural suite and 19.7% in the written suite. Dominance analyses identified language analytic and phonetic coding abilities as the strongest predictors, whereas other components contributed minimally. These findings provide initial evidence that TALL scores predict L2 proficiency. The study also offers a replicable procedure to facilitate further validation of this new battery. (Received 4 November 2025; revised 7 June 2026; accepted 6 August 2026) Keywords: aptitude battery; language aptitude; predictive validity","PeriodicalId":22008,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Second Language Acquisition","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A dialogue on Open Research and qualitative scholarship in SLA 二语习得开放研究与定性学术对话

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-10-06 DOI: 10.1017/s0272263126101922

Aline Godfroid, Peter I. De Costa

{"title":"A dialogue on Open Research and qualitative scholarship in SLA","authors":"Aline Godfroid, Peter I. De Costa","doi":"10.1017/s0272263126101922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263126101922","url":null,"abstract":"This critical dialogue examines how Open Research (OR) principles intersect with qualitative epistemologies in second language acquisition. Drawing on our distinct positionalities—Author 1 as a quantitatively trained psycholinguist and Author 2 as a qualitative critical applied linguist from the Global South—we explore both tensions and points of convergence across paradigms. While the OR movement has been shaped by concerns about replicability, we argue that trustworthiness in qualitative research rests on practices such as reflexivity, member checking, audit trails, and relational ethics. OR tools such as preregistration and public repositories offer qualitative researchers new ways to document and communicate their analytic decisions, but adaptation cannot be treated as their responsibility alone. If OR is to engage qualitative epistemologies meaningfully, the movement itself must also adapt by broadening its assumptions about evidence, accountability, transparency, and the desirability of unrestricted public availability of information. We argue for context-sensitive approaches that make decision-making processes visible without imposing uniform standards across methodological traditions.","PeriodicalId":22008,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Second Language Acquisition","volume":"26 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Automated measurement of complexity, accuracy, and fluency indices for Korean language data 自动测量复杂性，准确性和流利指数的韩语数据

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-09-30 DOI: 10.1017/s0272263126102009

Haerim Hwang

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A critical examination of the relationship between explicit and implicit knowledge and language teaching 对外显知识和内隐知识与语言教学关系的批判性考察

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0272263126101946

Yu Tamura, Junya Fukuta

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The relationship between self-determination theory–based L2 motivation and L2 achievement: A multilevel meta-analysis 基于自我决定理论的二语动机与二语成就的关系：一项多层次元分析

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0272263126101958

Yan Jiang, Xinyao Wang, W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin

{"title":"The relationship between self-determination theory–based L2 motivation and L2 achievement: A multilevel meta-analysis","authors":"Yan Jiang, Xinyao Wang, W. L. Quint Oga-Baldwin","doi":"10.1017/s0272263126101958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263126101958","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past decades, self-determination theory (SDT) has been widely applied in second language (L2) motivation research. The present study employed a multilevel meta-analysis to examine the direction and magnitude of the relationship between SDT-based L2 motivation and L2 achievement. We systematically searched ten English databases and pooled the data using random-effects models. A total of 74 eligible studies involving 220 estimates were included in the analyses. The results showed that both intrinsic motivation ( r = .318, p < .001) and extrinsic motivation ( r = .166, p < .001) were significantly and positively correlated with L2 achievement. Two autonomous dimensions of extrinsic motivation—integrated regulation ( r =. 248, p < .001) and identified regulation ( r = .190, p < .001)—were positively related with L2 achievement, whereas controlled dimensions—introjected regulation ( r = .006, p = .866) and external regulation ( r = .010, p = .781)—were not. The aggregated associations between intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and L2 achievement were moderated by learning context and teaching mode. Theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed.","PeriodicalId":22008,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Second Language Acquisition","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The ethical work of openness in qualitative L2 research 定性第二语言研究中开放性的伦理工作

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-09-22 DOI: 10.1017/s027226312610196x

Anna Becker, Luis Javier Pentón Herrera

{"title":"The ethical work of openness in qualitative L2 research","authors":"Anna Becker, Luis Javier Pentón Herrera","doi":"10.1017/s027226312610196x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s027226312610196x","url":null,"abstract":"Open scholarship (OS) is increasingly visible in second language acquisition (SLA) and applied linguistics as a means of supporting transparency, rigor, accountability, and knowledge sharing. In qualitative L2 research, however, the ethical implications of openness depend on context, participants, data type, and conditions of circulation. This critical commentary argues that responsible openness is best understood as circulation ethics, or the ethical reasoning required when qualitative materials move across languages, infrastructures, audiences, and political conditions. Drawing on two vignettes, one involving an externally funded fellowship with Ukrainian refugees in Poland and another involving research connected to Cuba, we distinguish broader qualitative research ethics from concerns generated or intensified by OS. We then develop a relational and CARE-informed framework for evaluating decisions about openness, including decisions to limit, delay, control, or refuse access. Refusal is accountable when it is documented and reasoned, not when it is simply asserted. The commentary proposes an ethical access statement and a decision framework for documenting access decisions related to consent, translation, contextual detail, risk, reuse, and institutional support. We argue that qualitative L2 research can contribute to OS by shifting evaluation from the quantity of materials made public to the accountability of the decisions that govern circulation. Responsible openness requires shared support among researchers, institutions, funders, journals, and reviewers.","PeriodicalId":22008,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Second Language Acquisition","volume":"21 1","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149124460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sharing transparently: Caring for trustworthiness in qualitative data analysis in L2 research 透明分享：关心第二语言研究中定性数据分析的可信度

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-09-17 DOI: 10.1017/s0272263126101934

Reza Rezvani, A. Mehdi Riazi

{"title":"Sharing transparently: Caring for trustworthiness in qualitative data analysis in L2 research","authors":"Reza Rezvani, A. Mehdi Riazi","doi":"10.1017/s0272263126101934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263126101934","url":null,"abstract":"The Open Science (OS) movement promotes transparency across the research process. This study examines how transparently qualitative data analysis is reported in second language (L2) research, where unclear methods can undermine trustworthiness. We conducted a qualitative content analysis of 50 empirical articles, randomly sampled from the ten highest-ranked L2 journals (based on a combined SJR/JCR index) published between 2021 and 2025. Using Chenail’s (2009) triadic framework, we analyzed how authors (1) conceptually present their methodologies, (2) operationally describe data-analytic procedures, and (3) contextualize their methods within relevant literature. Findings reveal a substantial “transparency gap”: most studies label their methods (e.g., thematic or content analysis) yet provide limited epistemological justification, sparse detail on multi-author collaboration—the “collaboration black box”—and frequent, poorly explained methodological “mash-ups.” We argue for stronger methodological accountability by researchers, instructors, and journal gatekeepers to better align L2 qualitative research with core OS principles.","PeriodicalId":22008,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Second Language Acquisition","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148984983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Finding the tipping point 找到引爆点

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-09-15 DOI: 10.1017/s0272263126101880

Renato Pavlekovic, Karen Roehr-Brackin

{"title":"Finding the tipping point","authors":"Renato Pavlekovic, Karen Roehr-Brackin","doi":"10.1017/s0272263126101880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263126101880","url":null,"abstract":"Research suggests that the role of language aptitude and working memory in L2 learning is dependent on learners’ overall level of L2 proficiency—a construct typically operationalized in terms of categories. In the present study, we investigated the moderating role of proficiency operationalized as a continuous variable, with a view to identifying the precise tipping point at which the role of specific cognitive abilities changes from facilitative to neutral, or vice versa. L1 Croatian participants ( N = 83) completed the LLAMA aptitude test suite, a serial reaction time task, and measures of phonological and executive working memory, as well as outcome measures focusing on selected L2 English morphosyntactic structures: a self-paced reading task, oral elicited imitation, and gap-fill tests. L2 proficiency was operationalized as speaking skill in terms of complexity, accuracy, and fluency. Multilevel modeling confirmed the predictive power of explicit and implicit aptitude and working memory for L2 knowledge of the target structures. Proficiency was identified as a moderator: beneficial effects of explicit aptitude decreased significantly as proficiency increased, while the facilitative effects of implicit aptitude came to the fore, though nonsignificantly. Crucially, we identified the exact point on the proficiency continuum at which explicit aptitude loses its significant positive impact.","PeriodicalId":22008,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Second Language Acquisition","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148964248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring new measures of accuracy in second language task-based spoken performance 探索第二语言任务型口语表现准确性的新方法

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition Pub Date : 2026-08-10 DOI: 10.1017/s0272263126101892

Peter Skehan, Zhan Wang

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