{"title":"Statistical knowledge and training in second language acquisition","authors":"Talip Gonulal","doi":"10.1075/ITL.18031.GON","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ITL.18031.GON","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The present study investigated second language acquisition (SLA) doctoral students’ statistical training and knowledge of statistics. One hundred and twenty SLA doctoral students in North America took a comprehensive statistics survey, and 16 of them participated in follow-up interviews. The results showed that doctoral students were well trained in basic descriptive statistics, while their training in inferential statistics, particularly advanced statistics, was limited. When looking at their statistical knowledge, the results indicated that SLA doctoral students were good at understanding descriptive and inferential statistics, but they found it hard to interpret statistical analyses related to inferential statistics that are commonly encountered in SLA research. Several suggestions directed toward improving statistical literacy in SLA were provided.","PeriodicalId":53175,"journal":{"name":"ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2020-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41321331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of explicit instruction on different types of linguistic properties","authors":"Joana Teixeira","doi":"10.1075/itl.18022.tei","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.18022.tei","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Over the past decades, L2 research has shown that properties involving the syntax-discourse interface are\u0000 typically more complex to acquire than strictly syntactic properties. To determine whether the complexity of the target property\u0000 moderates the effectiveness of explicit instruction, this study investigates the impact of explicit instruction on the development\u0000 of a syntactic property (the ungrammaticality of free inversion) and a syntax-discourse property (the unacceptability of locative\u0000 inversion with informationally heavy verbs) in L1 European Portuguese-L2 English (B2 and C1 levels), using a pre-test/post-test\u0000 design. Results reveal that instruction only produced lasting effects when it targeted syntax and learners were at the C1 level.\u0000 These results indicate that syntax may be more permeable to instructional effects than the syntax-discourse interface and that the\u0000 effectiveness of explicit instruction depends on learners’ stage of L2 development.","PeriodicalId":53175,"journal":{"name":"ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47022075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technology-mediated feedback and instruction","authors":"Hossein Nassaji, Eva Kartchava","doi":"10.1075/itl.00018.nas","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.00018.nas","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53175,"journal":{"name":"ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49070360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eline van Batenburg, R. Oostdam, Amos J. S. van Gelderen, R. Fukkink, Nivja H. de Jong
{"title":"The effects of instructional focus and task type on pre-vocational learners’ ability in EFL oral interaction","authors":"Eline van Batenburg, R. Oostdam, Amos J. S. van Gelderen, R. Fukkink, Nivja H. de Jong","doi":"10.1075/ITL.18027.VAN","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/ITL.18027.VAN","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Little is known about the effect of diverging pedagogies on the development of interactional oral skills in a foreign language. In a controlled study, we evaluated three newly developed instructional programmes that were situated in the same training context, but that differed in instructional focus and type of task. These were compared to the effects of business-as-usual instruction. Multilevel analysis revealed that all experimental groups outperformed the ‘business-as-usual’ control group on oral interaction skills (N = 199), with similar results for the programmes. Positive effects were found on interaction skills for trained contexts of use only. No transfer was found to tasks in other contexts of use. We conclude that receiving contextualised oral interaction instruction is beneficial to the development of pre-vocational learners’ interaction skills.","PeriodicalId":53175,"journal":{"name":"ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46348544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A. L. Duffé Montalván (coordinator). (2017). Singularidad y variedad en el estudio sobre los actos de\u0000 habla","authors":"Barbara De Cock","doi":"10.1075/itl.18024.dec","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.18024.dec","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53175,"journal":{"name":"ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Belgium)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58698639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}