This study examines Chinese international doctoral students' academic socialization into
TESOL discourses and communities. Rooted in the academic discourse socialization theory …

Language learners beyond early childhood are scarcely expected to reach native-like
abilities in their new language, yet some do. Are these individuals uniquely gifted? If so, are …

This article discusses some methodological issues that arose when analysing data collected
in a pilot study of the SOFRA project. We aimed at piloting a semi-structured interview …

The present paper looks into SLA research which has been overwhelmed with multitude of
competing theories, thus making it plausible that none of them alone can explain the …

En réponse à l'article de Wander Lowie, cette contribution se propose de situer la Complex
Dynamic System Theory, dont il se réclame, au sein des écoles et des théories qui …

Students of social and natural sciences are expected to achieve different learning outcomes
because they employ different language learning strategies and are exposed to different …

Many in Hong Kong voice concerns about the fate of Cantonese, including nativists
(“localists”) and the general public. Guangzhou is seen as a harbinger of diminishing …

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to discover what English language learners
attribute their successful completion of transfer-level English at a California community …

This study is a mixed methods case study which examines adult second language
acquisition of Spanish in the Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game (MMORPG) …

二语习得涉及内在因素及内在机制, 外在因素及其影响, 只有综合各种视角,
系统地考察二语习得, 才有可能了解其全貌. 本文立足《 剑桥二语习得手册》(Herschensohn & …