This mixed-methods study presents a needs analysis to investigate the workplace English language needs of medical students in China who are learning and using English as non-native speakers,the circumstances in which ...
Based on the Involvement Load Hypothesis, the present study investigated the differential effects of three post-listening output tasks(gap-filling, translation, and sentence-making) on immediate acquisition and retent...
This work was supported by the MOE Project of Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences in Universities in China.
This historical study investigates the concept of learner autonomy in the national English language curricula for Chinese universities.It seeks to understand the meaning of learner autonomy in China and the intentiona...
This article traces the evolution of the field of second language acquisition/development(SLA/SLD). It chronicles the evolution in terms of different disciplines and theories that have been influential, beginning with...
Good teaching is an emotionally charged event where teachers connect with each student as they passionately deliver their lesson in a pleasurable environment. Such classrooms reflect an environment where both students...
The experiment presented in this research is targeting a 'positional' stage of a 'modular' model of speech production originally proposed by Levelt (1989), Bock & Levelt (1994), where selected lemmas are inse...
supported by China Foreign Language Education Research Fund under grant No.ZGWYJYJJ2016B79
Brain mechanism of metaphor processing has always been a focus in Neurolinguistics. This study approaches bilinguals' metaphor semantic representation mechanism with Chinese bilinguals with different levels of second...
The study investigated the effects of an intervention program on self-regulated learning designed for second language learners. One hundred and twenty participants who were sophomore English majors at a university in ...
This paper aims to investigate the effects of recasts and working memory on the acquisition of Korean morphological causatives by advanced Chinese learners of Korean. Participants were randomly assigned to two groups...
In recent years, SLA and L2 learning motivation have received extensive attention of researchers and teachers across the globe but the issue remains underdeveloped and there are only some small-scale studies on this s...