War trauma is often accompanied by poor living conditions in the new environment in a
manner preserving or even deteriorating the negative influences of war. Several researchers …

This article updates the trends and developments of Japanese as a second language (JSL)
research since Mori and Mori (2011) by reviewing nearly 200 selected empirical studies …

The field of multilingual testing and assessment has grown rapidly in recent years due to the
widespread need to integrate immigrant populations into mainstream education and to …

Heritage language (HL) speakers have received scholarly attention in recent years as an
interdisciplinary research theme, but relatively less attention has been paid to their …

This study investigates the role of motivation and learner variables in bilingual vocabulary
development among first language (L1) Japanese students attending hoshuukoo (ie …

Many second-generation immigrant (SGI) students are heritage-bilinguals whose mother
tongue is not their school's instructional language. Adopting sociological and …

This study investigated the role of parental support and selected family variables in the first
(L1) and second language (L2) vocabulary development of Japanese heritage language …

Emotional vocabulary is an important element in daily conversations, and knowledge and
teaching of this vocabulary in a second language (L2) should be a primary goal in migration …

This research aimed to discover the impact of explicit instruction on teaching vocabulary to
students with vocabulary difficulties. This explicit instruction involves directly teaching …

Rannsóknin er hluti doktorsrannsóknar fyrsta höfundar (Sigríður Ólafsdóttir, 2015) sem hafði
þann megintilgang að bera saman hversu hratt orðaforði eykst og lesskilningur eflist hjá …