In current research, emotions in language use situations are often examined only at their
starting and ending points, akin to observing the beginning and end of a wave, while …

Applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered tools are by no means new to researchers
and practitioners in second or foreign language learning. For one, chatbots, also known as …

In applied linguistics research interest has surged in recent years for questions related to
individuals' development and change. The most commonly used methods in the field for …

Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) has significantly reshaped our understanding of
second language learning and teaching across the micro, meso, and macro levels for …

In this paper, we report a longitudinal study of the effects of procedural task repetition on
learners' task performance (ie, syntactic complexity in relation to lexical complexity). We …

The aim of this article is to present a very basic dynamic systems model of L2 learning based
on a number of basic principles 1) at any moment in time, a learner's L2 proficiency is a …

Children and adults are excellent word learners. Increasing evidence suggests that the
neural mechanisms that allow us to learn words change with age. In a recent fMRI study …

In the past decades, complex dynamic systems theory (CDST) has been used as an
important framework for studying second language development. CDST is a metatheory of …

This study investigates longitudinal changes in linguistic complexity and holistic scores in
EFL timed argumentative writing among beginning-level learners using Complex Dynamic …

The discourse dynamics approach is a novel approach proposed within Complex Dynamic
Systems Theory to explore the developmental and interactional characteristics of a complex …