Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt Editors: Editor: Mirosław Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Jakub Bielak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Edyta Olejarczuk (Poznań University of Technology) Language Editor: Melanie Ellis (Pedagogical University of Kraków) Vol. 7 No. 4 December 2017 Editorial Board: Larissa Aronin (Oranim Academic College of Education, Trinity College, Dublin) Helen Basturkmen (University of Auckland) Adriana Biedroń (Pomeranian University, Słupsk) Simon Borg (University of Leeds) Anne Burns (Aston University, Birmingham, University of New South Wales, Sydney) Anna Cieślicka (Texas A&M International University, Laredo) Kata Csizér (Eötvös University, Budapest) Maria Dakowska (University of Warsaw) Robert DeKeyser (University of Maryland) Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London) Zoltán Dörnyei (University of Nottingham) Krystyna Droździał-Szelest (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Rod Ellis (University of Auckland) Danuta Gabryś-Barker (University of Silesia) Carol Griffiths (Fatih University, Istanbul) Rebecca Hughes (University of Sheffield) Hanna Komorowska (University of Warsaw, SWPS) Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan) Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (University of Łódź) Jan Majer (University of Łódź) Paul Meara (Swansea University) Sarah Mercer (University of Graz) Anna Michońska-Stadnik (University of Wrocław) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Bonny Norton (University of British Columbia) Terrence Odlin (Ohio State University) Rebecca Oxford (University of Maryland) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) François Pichette (University of Quebec) Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel (Opole University) Vera Regan (University College, Dublin) Heidemarie Sarter (University of Potsdam) Paweł Scheffler (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Norbert Schmitt (University of Nottingham) Michael Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) Linda Shockey (University of Reading) Teresa Siek-Piskozub (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) David Singleton (University of Pannonia, Trinity College, Dublin) Włodzimierz Sobkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Merrill Swain (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto) Elaine Tarone (University of Minnesota) Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódź) Stuart Webb (University of Western Ontario) Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia) KALISZ – POZNAŃ 2017 EDITOR: Mirosław Pawlak ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR: Jakub Bielak Edyta Olejarczuk © Copyright by Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny, UAM Poznań Proofreading: Melanie Ellis Cover design: Joanna Dudek Typesetting: Piotr Bajak ISSN 2083-5205 eISSN 2084-1965 Published by: Department of English Studies Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Kalisz Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań Contact information: 62-800 Kalisz, ul. 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Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz Volume 7, Number 4, December 2017 http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt Contents Notes on Contributors ....................................................................565 Editorial .........................................................................................569 Articles: Emily E. Scida, Jill N. Jones – The impact of contemplative practices on foreign language anxiety and learning ................................................573 Katarzyna Zychowicz, Adriana Biedroń, Mirosław Pawlak – Polish Listening SPAN: A new tool for measuring verbal working memory.........................601 Fang-Yu Liao – The relationship between L2 students’ writing experiences and their perceived poetry writing ability ................................................ 619 Gloria Vickov, Eva Jakupčević – Discourse markers in non-native EFL teacher talk ...................................................................................... 649 Vanessa De Wilde, June Eyckmans – Game on! Young learners’ incidental language learning of English prior to instruction ............................ 673 Gabriella Hild – A case study of a Hungarian EFL teacher’s assessment practices with her young learners ..................................................... 695 Book Reviews: Jarosław Krajka – Review of Liying Cheng, Janna Fox’s Assessment in the language classroom: Teachers supporting student learning ........... 715 Mirosław Pawlak – Review of Keita Kikuchi’s Demotivation in second language acquisition: Insights from Japan ...................................... 721 Reviewers for Volume 7/2017 .......................................................... 727 Notes to Contributors .....................................................................731 565 Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt Notes on Contributors Adriana Biedroń is Professor of English at the Faculty of Philology, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Poland, and the Faculty of Philology, Koszalin University of Technology, Koszalin, Poland. She received her doctoral and postdoctoral degrees in applied linguistics from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. Her main areas of interest are SLA theory and research, individual differences in SLA, in par- ticular, foreign language aptitude, working memory, intelligence, personality fac- tors and linguistic giftedness. Her recent publications include “Foreign Language Aptitude: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” (co-authored with Edward Wen and Peter Skehan, 2016, Language Teaching) and “New Conceptualizations of Linguis- tic Giftedness” (co-authored with Mirosław Pawlak, 2016, Language Teaching). Contact details: Faculty of Philology, Pomeranian University, ul. Słowiańska 8, 76-200 Słupsk, Poland (adriana.biedron@apsl.edu.pl) Vanessa De Wilde is a PhD student and teacher trainer of English at Ghent Uni- versity, Belgium and Head of the English section in the Secondary Education De- partment at Artevelde University College where she teaches English as a foreign language at various levels of proficiency, is involved in the guidance and coach- ing of student teachers and works on course development. Her research inter- ests are SLA of young learners and language teaching methodology. She has given various workshops to teachers of foreign languages and has presented the results of her research at conferences. Contact details: Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45, 9000 Gent, Belgium (vanessa.dewilde @ugent.be) June Eyckmans is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication of Ghent University, Belgium where she teaches courses in applied linguistics, research methodology and EFL. Her research interests center on second language acquisition research, with a 566 special focus on L2 vocabulary learning. She publishes on cognitive linguistic ap- proaches to vocabulary learning and on assessment methodology in national and international journals, and she currently supervises research projects on in- dividual difference variables, vocabulary learning and incidental language acqui- sition. She is often consulted by national and international organisations for the improvement of language assessment procedures. Contact details: Groot-Brittanniëlaan 45, 9000 Gent, Belgium (june.eyckmans@ ugent.be) Gabriella Hild, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Languages for Spe- cific Purposes, Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary. She teaches Medical English to undergraduates and postgraduates and Medical Hungarian to foreign undergraduates. She received her PhD degree in 2015. The title of her thesis was The Assessment of Young EFL Learners in the Hungarian Educational Con- text. Her research interests include the dynamic and diagnostic assessment of English as a second language. Contact details: Department of Languages for Specific Purposes, Medical School, University of Pécs, Szigeti út 12, 7624 Pécs, Hungary (gabriella.hild@aok.pte.hu) Eva Jakupčević is a PhD student of FL education at the University of Zagreb, Cro- atia. Currently working on her final thesis. She is also a practicing EFL teacher working with children and adults. Contact details: Gunduliceva 50, 21000 Split, Croatia (ejakupcevic@ffst.hr) Jill N. Jones is currently a PhD candidate in the higher education program at the University of Virginia, Curry School of Education, Charlottesville, VA, USA and works at Hanover Research as a survey specialist. Her research interests include effective pedagogical practices, student learning outcomes, and student/faculty professional development. Contact details: 120 Edgeview Dr. #5519; Broomfield, CO, USA 80021 (jnj5ee@ virginia.edu) Jarosław Krajka is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Institute of German Studies and Applied Linguistics at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. His major interests include computer-assisted lan- guage learning, computer-enhanced teacher training and multicultural aspects of language teaching. He has authored three monographs, and numerous arti- cles and reviews. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Poland-based interna- tional journal Teaching English with Technology (http://www.tewtjournal.org/). 567 For more information and publications in English, see the profile page at Aca- demia (http://umcs-pl.academia.edu/jkrajka). Contact details: Plac Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4a, 20-031 Lublin, Poland (jarek. krajka@wp.pl) Fang-Yu Liao is a PhD candidate in composition and TESOL at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), USA. She graduated from the MA TESOL program at IUP in 2012. Currently, she is teaching liberal arts English composition courses at IUP as a teaching associate while working on her dissertation about professional de- velopment in L2 creative writing pedagogy. Besides that, her research interests are L2 poetry writing, multilingual writing, and translingual pedagogy. Contact details: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 22 Regency Square, Indiana, PA 15701, USA (f.liao@iup.edu) Mirosław Pawlak, Professor of English; Faculty of Philology, State University of Ap- plied Sciences, Konin, Poland; Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts in Kalisz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland. He received his doctoral and post-doctoral degrees as well as his full professorship from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. His main areas of interest are SLA theory and research, form-focused instruction, corrective feedback, classroom discourse, learner autonomy, learning strategies, grammar learning strategies, motivation, willingness to communicate and pronunciation teaching. His recent publications include The Place of Form-focused Instruction in the Foreign Language Classroom (2006, Adam Mickiewicz University Press), Production-oriented and Comprehen- sion-based Grammar Teaching in the Foreign Language Classroom (with Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak, 2012, Springer), Error Correction in the Foreign Language Classroom: Reconsidering the Issues (2014, Springer), Applying Cognitive Grammar in the Foreign Language Classroom: Teaching English Tense and Aspect (with Jakub Bielak, 2013, Springer), Willingness to Communicate in Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Combining a macro- and micro-perspective (with Anna Mystkowska- Wiertelak, 2017, Multilingual Matters), as well as several edited collections on learner autonomy, form-focused instruction, speaking and individual learner differ- ences. Mirosław Pawlak is the editor-in-chief of the journals Studies in Second Lan- guage Learning and Teaching (http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt), Konin Lan- guage Studies (http://www.ksj.pwsz.konin.edu.pl/?lang=en), and the book series Second Language Learning and Teaching (http://www.springer.com/series/10129). Contact details: Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Nowy Świat 28-30, 62-800 Kalisz, Poland (pawlakmi@ amu.edu.pl) 568 Emily E. Scida is Professor of Spanish and Director of the Spanish Language Pro- gram in the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese at the University of Virginia (UVA), Virginia, USA. Her research interests include teacher education, learning technologies, e-portfolios, and contemplative pedagogies. Emily has been the recipient of a number of grants and awards, including a 2014 Contem- plative Sciences Center Grant, the 2011-2014 Daniels Family NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship, a Fall 2012 Hybrid Course Challenge Grant, Learning Technologies Incubator Grants, and a Teaching + Technology Initiative Fellow- ship. In 2011, she was inducted into the University Academy of Teaching at UVA. Contact details: University of Virginia; Department of Spanish, Italian, & Portu- guese; PO Box 400777; 444 New Cabell Hall; Charlottesville, VA, USA 22904- 4777 (ees2n@virginia.edu) Gloria Vickov is Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia. Her research interests include early EFL learning, pragmatic and discourse competence in SLA, intercul- tural learning, L1 culture in SLA and L2 teacher education. She also lectures in the Doctoral Programme in FL Education at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sci- ences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. For more information see Gloria’s profile at the website of the Croatian Scientific Bibliography: http://bib.irb.hr/lista-radova?autor =270024&lang=EN Contact details: Templarska 14, 21 000 Split, Croatia (gvickov@ffst.hr) Katarzyna Zychowicz is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Philol- ogy at Pomeranian Academy in Słupsk, Poland. Her research interests include individual differences in second language acquisition, especially working memory, multiligualism, and interlanguage development. Contact details: Pomeranian University, ul. Arciszewskiego 22a, 76-200 Słupsk (katarzyna.zychowicz@apsl.edu.pl)