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The effects of enhancing L2 multiword items in captions: An approximate replication of Majuddin, Siyanova-Chanturia, and Boers (2021) 在字幕中增强 L2 多词项目的效果：对 Majuddin、Siyanova-Chanturia 和 Boers（2021 年）研究的近似复制

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-11-04 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000296

Elvenna Majuddin, Frank Boers, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia

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Replication research in L2 collaborative writing: Replications of Fernández Dobao (2012) and Bikowski and Vithanage (2016) L2 协作写作的复制研究：Fernández Dobao（2012）和 Bikowski 与 Vithanage（2016）的复制研究

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-10-21 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000302

Matt Kessler

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Examining lexical profile in general-audience English podcasts: A close replication of Nurmukhamedov and Sharakhimov (2021) 研究普通听众英语播客中的词汇概况：对 Nurmukhamedov 和 Sharakhimov (2021) 的近似复制

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-10-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000211

Hong Yu, Ju Wen

{"title":"Examining lexical profile in general-audience English podcasts: A close replication of Nurmukhamedov and Sharakhimov (2021)","authors":"Hong Yu, Ju Wen","doi":"10.1017/s0261444824000211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444824000211","url":null,"abstract":"We closely replicated Nurmukhamedov and Sharakhimov (2021), which was the first study to examine the lexical profile of general-audience English podcasts. Nurmukhamedov and Sharakhimov (2021) found that podcast listeners should have a knowledge of the most frequent 3,000 word families and 5,000 word families, respectively, plus proper nouns, marginal words, transparent compounds, and acronyms in order to achieve good and high-level listening comprehension. We followed the methods and procedures of the initial study with a much larger corpus. Specifically, a total of 8,862 podcast transcripts sampled from 12 general-audience podcast programs were used to compile the 14-million-word corpus. Results of the study confirmed Nurmukhamedov and Sharakhimov's (2021) findings in the vocabulary size required to understand general-audience English podcasts. However, some minor differences pertaining to individual podcast programs were revealed, indicating that the sampling of data had an effect on the lexical demand. These findings provide solid evidence to support the validity and generalizability of the initial study's findings. Implications for second language teaching and learning are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142431294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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 complexity of teaching Hebrew in Israel's Arab school system 以色列阿拉伯学校系统希伯来语教学的复杂性

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000193

Rama Manor, Ali Watad

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Language teacher expertise research: A theoretical case and research agenda 语文教师专业知识研究：理论案例和研究议程

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000168

Jason Anderson

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Privilege and prejudice in private online English teaching: Discourses in school-owned recruitment websites 私人在线英语教学中的特权与偏见：学校所属招聘网站中的论述

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-10-07 DOI: 10.1017/s026144482400017x

Ephraim V. Domingo

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Data-driven learning: From Collins Cobuild Dictionary to ChatGPT 数据驱动的学习：从 Collins Cobuild Dictionary 到 ChatGPT

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000144

John Flowerdew

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Review of selected research in applied linguistics published in Australia (2015–2022) 澳大利亚出版的应用语言学部分研究综述（2015-2022 年）

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000077

Rhonda Oliver, Honglin Chen, Sender Dovchin

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Replication research in the domain of perceived L2 fluency: Approximate and close replications of Kormos and Dénes (2004) and Rossiter (2009) 感知 L2 流利程度领域的复制研究：Kormos 和 Dénes（2004 年）以及 Rossiter（2009 年）的近似和接近复制研究

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000120

Viktoria Magne

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Cognitive linguistics-inspired language instruction 认知语言学启发的语言教学

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Language Teaching Pub Date : 2024-05-08 DOI: 10.1017/s0261444824000119

Jie Qin, Dilin Liu, Lei Lei

{"title":"Cognitive linguistics-inspired language instruction","authors":"Jie Qin, Dilin Liu, Lei Lei","doi":"10.1017/s0261444824000119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444824000119","url":null,"abstract":"Second language acquisition (SLA) or second/foreign language teaching has been influenced to various degrees by key linguistic theories, including structural linguistics (Bloomfield, 1933; Saussure, 1959), generative linguistics (Chomsky, 1957, 1965), systemic functional linguistics (Halliday, 1973), and, more recently, contemporary Cognitive Linguistics (CL; Goldberg, 1995; Lakoff, 1987, 1993; Langacker, 1987, 1991; Talmy, 1988, 2000), a theory composed of several related linguistic approaches often viewed as a response or complement to generative linguistics. While structural linguistics, generative linguistics, and systemic functional linguistics have each provided a theoretical impetus for one or more of the prominent language teaching methods or approaches over the past century (such as the Audiolingual method, the Natural method, and the Communicative Language Teaching method), CL, as a newcomer, has begun to exert a growing influence since the early 1990s. Given that the purpose of this research timeline article is to present a historical overview of the key thoughts and studies on CL-inspired approaches to instructed second language acquisition (ISLA),1 a brief discussion of CL's main differences from the other linguistic theories and its key theoretical tenets is in order.","PeriodicalId":47770,"journal":{"name":"Language Teaching","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140890469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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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