This study assesses research and reporting practices in quantitative second language (L2)
research. A sample of 606 primary studies, published from 1990 to 2010 in Language …

Theoretically motivated, empirical research into task‐based language learning has been
prompted by proposals for task‐based language teaching. In this review I describe early and …

Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

Now in its second edition, Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition continues
to present a cohesive view of the different theoretical and pedagogical perspectives that …

Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the
application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no …

The goals of this article are to appraise second language acquisition's (SLA) disciplinary
progress over the last 15 years and to reflect on transdisciplinary relevance as the field has …

Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

Research Methods in Linguistics guides the reader through the key issues, principles, and
contributions of core methods in linguistic research. It is an essential resource for …

Second language acquisition researchers have claimed that feedback provided during
conversational interaction facilitates second language (L2) acquisition. A number of …

This article examines whether there is any difference between the effect of oral and written
corrective feedback (CF) on learners' accurate use of English articles. To this end, the …