Tag: second language acquisition

New research from UCL and Tohoku University shows that people with greater auditory precision perceive foreign speech sounds more objectively, ...

A new experimental study suggests that scaffolded collaborative dialogue can accelerate second language grammar learning beyond fixed developmental stages, challenging ...

A randomized experiment with Iranian teenage English learners found that metacognitive intervention and working memory training both improve listening comprehension, ...

A qualitative study of older Chinese EFL learners at Senior Citizen Universities reveals how they sustain mobile-assisted vocabulary learning through ...

Researchers have built an open-source system that converts ephemeral AI chatbot explanations into a permanent, morpheme-linked vocabulary graph with built-in ...

A twelve-week quasi-experimental study in a Chinese vocational college found that AI-assisted speaking practice with iFLYTEK Spark significantly improved students' ...

A randomized experiment with eighty Chinese undergraduates shows that encountering new second-language words across varied stories significantly improves vocabulary learning ...

A new framework in Educational Psychology Review identifies seven dimensions, from iconicity to cultural familiarity, that explain why some instructional ...

A systematic review of 23 studies finds Processing Instruction reliably improves EFL learners' grammatical comprehension, while speaking and writing gains ...

A twelve-week quasi-experimental study of 60 Saudi EFL university students found that Grammarly-supported process writing instruction produced significantly larger gains ...