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:
Founding Editor and Editor in Chief: Mirosław Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland)

Editor: Kata Csizér (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)
Editor: Mariusz Kruk (University of Zielona Góra, Poland)

Editor: Chengchen Li (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China)
Editor: Aleksandra Wach (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

Editor: Joanna Zawodniak (University of Zielona Góra, Poland)
Language Editor: Melanie Ellis (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland)

Vol. 12 No. 3 September 2022
Editorial Board:

Ali Al-Hoorie (Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, Jubail, Saudi Arabia)
Larissa Aronin (Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)

Helen Basturkmen (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Adriana Biedroń (Pomeranian University, Słupsk, Poland)

Simon Borg (University of Leeds, UK)
Anne Burns (Aston University, Birmingham, UK, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)

Anna Cieślicka (Texas A&M International University, Laredo, USA)
Robert DeKeyser (University of Maryland, USA)

Ali Derakhshan (Golestan University, Gorgan, Iran)
Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)

Krystyna Droździał-Szelest (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Majid Elahi Shirvan (University of Bojnord, Iran)

Rod Ellis (Curtin University, Perth, Australia)
Danuta Gabryś-Barker (University of Silesia, Poland)

Tammy Gregersen (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates)
Carol Griffiths (University of Leeds, UK, AIS, Auckland, New Zealand)

Laura Gurzynski-Weiss (Indiana University Bloomington, USA)
Rebecca Hughes (University of Nottingham, UK)

Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland)
Terry Lamb (University of Westminster, London, UK)

Diane Larsen-Freeman (University of Michigan, USA)
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (State University of Applied Sciences, Konin, Poland)

Jan Majer (State University of Applied Sciences, Włocławek, Poland)
Paul Meara (Swansea University, UK)

Sarah Mercer (University of Graz, Austria)
Anna Michońska-Stadnik (University of Wrocław, Poland)

Carmen Muñoz (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

Bonny Norton (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Terrence Odlin (Ohio State University, USA)

Rebecca Oxford (University of Maryland, USA)
Aneta Pavlenko (University of Oslo, Norway)

Simone Pfenninger (University of Salzburg, Austria)
François Pichette (TÉLUQ University, Quebec, Canada)

Luke Plonsky (Northern Arizona University, USA)
Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel (Opole University, Poland)

Vera Regan (University College, Dublin, Ireland)
Barry Lee Reynolds (University of Macau, China)

Heidemarie Sarter (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Paweł Scheffler (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

Norbert Schmitt (University of Nottingham, UK)
Michael Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)

Linda Shockey (University of Reading, UK)
Teresa Siek-Piskozub (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)

David Singleton (University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Merrill Swain (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada)

Elaine Tarone (University of Minnesota, USA)
Amy Thompson (West Virginia University, USA)

Pavel Trofimovich (Concordia University, Canada)
Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódź, Poland)

Stuart Webb (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia, Poland)

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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 12, Number 3, September 2022
http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ssllt

Contents

Notes on Contributors .....................................................................345

Editorial ...........................................................................................351

Articles:
Raquel Serrano – A state-of-the-art review of distribution-of-practice
effects on L2 learning .............................................................................355

Jie Qin, Lei Lei – Research trends in task-based language teaching: A
bibliometric analysis from 1985 to 2020 ......................................... 381

Jinfen Xu, Changying Li – Timing of form-focused instruction: Effects
on EFL learners’ grammar learning ................................................. 405

Jang Ho Lee, Joung Joo Ahn, Hansol Lee – The role of motivation and
vocabulary learning strategies in L2 vocabulary knowledge: A structural
equation modeling analysis............................................................. 435

Zhipeng Zhang, Xuesong (Andy) Gao, Ting Liu, Chwee Beng Lee – Language
learners’ emotion regulation and enjoyment in an online collaborative
writing program ...............................................................................................459

Jian Xu, Xuyan Qiu – Second language psychological speaking and listening
needs: Scale development, symbiosis, and demographic differences.....483

Book Reviews:
Lixia Zhu, Jinting Cai – Review of Crosslinguistic influence and second
language learning by Kevin McManus............................................. 509

Zixuan Li – Review  of Researching language learning motivation: A
concise guide by Ali H. Al-Hoorie and Fruzsina Szabó ..................... 515



Call for Papers for the 2023 SSLLT Conference.................................. 521

Notes to Contributors ...................................................................... 525



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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

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Notes on Contributors

Joung Joo Ahn is part-time Lecturer in the Department of Child English at the
Cyber University of Korea, Republic of Korea. She is a researcher, material devel-
oper, and teacher trainer. Her areas of interest are storytelling, literacy skills, early
English education, teacher development and e-learning.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8923-8098
Contact details: Department of Child English, the Cyber University of Korea, 106 Buk-
chon-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03051 Republic of Korea (storygranny@naver.com)

Jinting Cai is Professor in the School of Foreign Studies at Shanghai University of
Finance and Economics, China, and holds a PhD in second language acquisition.
His research interests include crosslinguistic influence, interlanguage, and indi-
vidual differences in second language acquisition with a focus on crosslinguistic
influence in Chinese students’ learning and use of foreign languages. Currently,
he chairs a key national project on crosslinguistic influence in Chinese students’
learning of English and Japanese.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3902-9121
Contact details: School of Foreign Studies, Shanghai University of Finance and Eco-
nomics, No. 777, Guoding Road, Shanghai, China (caijinting@mail.shufe.edu.cn)

Xuesong (Andy) Gao is Professor in the School of Education, the University of
New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. His research interests include computer-
assisted language learning, language learner autonomy, language education pol-
icy, and language teacher education.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3426-8721
Contact details: School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Univer-
sity of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia (xuesong.gao@unsw.edu.au)



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Hansol Lee received his doctoral degree in Education from the University of Cal-
ifornia, Irvine, USA, and is Associate Professor of English at Korea Military Acad-
emy, Republic of Korea. His research interests include methods and statistics,
education, and literacy. His work has been published in Education Research Re-
view, Child Development, Applied Measurement in Education, Applied Linguis-
tics, Language Learning, Modern Language Journal, Language Learning & Tech-
nology, Journal of Language and Social Psychology and Annual Review of Ap-
plied Linguistics, among others.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6912-7128
Contact details: Department of English, Korea Military Academy, 574, Hwarang-
ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul, 01805 Republic of Korea (hansol6461@gmail.com)

Chwee Beng Lee is currently Associate Professor and HDR director of School of
Education at Western Sydney University (WSU), Australia. Her research interests
include language learning technology, problem solving, and learner autonomy.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3419-5283
Contact details: School of Education, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW
2751, Australia (chwee.lee@westernsydney.edu.au)

Jang  Ho  Lee received  his  PhD  in  education  from  the  University  of  Oxford,  UK,
and is presently Professor at the Department of English Education, Chung-Ang
University, Republic of Korea. His areas of interest are the bilingual approach to
L2 teaching, vocabulary acquisition, and AI-based language learning. His work
has been published in Education Research Review, Applied Linguistics, Language
Learning, Language Teaching Research, Language Learning & Technology,
TESOL Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, ReCALL, System and Oxford Review
of Education, among others.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2767-3881
Contact details: Department of English Education, Chung-Ang University, 84
Heukseok-ro, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974 Republic of Korea (jangholee@cau.ac.kr)

Lei Lei is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Institute of Corpus Studies and
Applications, Shanghai International Studies University, China. His research in-
terests include second language acquisition, academic English, and corpus lin-
guistics. He has published extensively, and his articles have appeared in interna-
tional journals, such as Applied Linguistics, Language Teaching, Journal of Eng-
lish for Academic Purposes, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, Lingua,
and System.



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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3366-1855
Contact details: Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications, Shanghai Interna-
tional Studies University, 1550 Wenxiang Road, Songjian, Shanghai,201306, P.R
of China (leileicn@126.com; leileicn@shisu.edu.cn)

Changying Li is Lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages, Huazhong Univer-
sity of Science and Technology, China. Her research interests include foreign lan-
guage education and instructed second language acquisition.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6280-6817
Contact details: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of For-
eign Languages, No. 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei Province, P. R.
China (lichangying@hust.edu.cn)

Zixuan Li is a PhD student at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
She also holds an MPhil degree in research in second language education in the
Faculty. Her main interests lie in language learning motivation, multilingualism,
and positive psychology. She is particularly interested in the motivational pro-
files of LOTEs learners across various contexts. Her current PhD project aims to
apply positive psychology principles to understand LOTE learners’ language
learning experience and motivation.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9058-8634
Contact details: Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge,184 Hills Road,
CB2 8PQ, Cambridge, UK (zl421@cam.ac.uk)

Ting Liu is a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Syd-
ney, Australia. She holds University International Postgraduate Award (UIPA)
scholarship granted by UNSW Sydney. Her current areas of research are teaching
English as a foreign language, language teacher education, and language learn-
ing technology.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3452-1838
Contact details: School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia (ting.liu1@student.
unsw.edu.au)

Jie Qin is Assistant Professor at the School of Foreign Languages Studies at South
China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China and holds a PhD in Applied Lin-
guistics. Her research interests include instructed second language acquisition
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instruction. She has published articles in Language Teaching, Language Teach-
ing Research, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
(IRAL), and System.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1678-9195
Contact details: School of Foreign Languages Studies, South China Agricultural
University, 483 Wushan Road Guangzhou, China (qinjie@scau.edu.cn)

Xuyan Qiu is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Communica-
tion at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. Her research interests in-
clude second language acquisition, task-based language teaching, academic
English, and English medium instruction.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4368-8039
Contact details: Department of English and Communication, The Hong Kong Polytech-
nic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China (christyxyq@hotmail.com)

Raquel Serrano is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures and English Studies at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Her
research has focused on the acquisition of English as an L2 and her main areas
of interest include the effect of time distribution, study abroad, and the poten-
tial of reading to promote L2 vocabulary learning. Some of her recent publica-
tions have appeared in Applied Psycholinguistics, Language Teaching, Language
Awareness and System.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9335-4702
Contact details: University of Barcelona, Department of Modern Languages and
Literatures and English Studies, Gran Via Corts Catalanes, 585, 08007, Barcelona,
Spain (raquelserrano@ub.edu)

Jian Xu is Assistant Professor at Sichuan International Studies University, China.
He obtained his PhD degree from Department of Curriculum and Instruction,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include second lan-
guage writing and listening, and teacher identity. His work has appeared in sev-
eral journals, such as Applied Linguistics Review, Assessing Writing, Journal of
Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Higher Education Research & De-
velopment, Educational Studies, and Asia-Pacific Education Researcher.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2275-6197
Contact details: School of Business English, Sichuan International Studies Uni-
versity, No. 33, Zhuangzhi Road, Lieshimu, Shapingba District, 400031, Chong-
qing, China (xujian@link.cuhk.edu.hk)



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Jinfen Xu is  Professor  and  PhD  Supervisor  of  the  School  of  Foreign  Languages,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. Her research interests in-
clude foreign language education, instructed second language acquisition, learner
autonomy, classroom interaction and teacher development. Her articles (more
than 190 in total) on instructed SLA, classroom interaction, and teacher reflection
have appeared in many key academic journals in China and foreign journals (such
as Language Teaching Research, Language Policy, System, TESOL Quarterly). Her
work  also  includes  8  books  on  second  language  teaching  and  learning,  21  text-
books, and 28 projects at both national and provincial levels.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0515-0887
Contact details: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of For-
eign Languages, No. 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei Province, P. R.
China (xujinfen@hust.edu.cn)

Zhipeng Zhang is a PhD candidate at the Western Sydney University (WSU), Syd-
ney, Australia. His study has received generous support by postgraduate re-
search scholarship from WSU. He is also an English lecturer at Taiyuan Normal Uni-
versity, China. His research interests cover second language acquisition, emotions
in language learning, and language learning technology.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5783-5648
Contact details: School of Education, Western Sydney University, Sydney, NSW
2751, Australia (zhipeng.zhang@tynu.edu.cn)

Lixia Zhu is  Professor  in  the  College  of  Foreign  Languages  at  the  University  of
Shanghai for Science and Technology, China, and holds a PhD in linguistics. Her
research interests include cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, and second language
acquisition with a focus on comparative research on Chinese and Japanese from
the perspective of cognitive linguistics. Currently, she is a member of a research
team investigating crosslinguistic influence in Chinese students’ learning of Eng-
lish and Japanese.
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0170-4475
Contact details: College of Foreign Languages, University of Shanghai for Science
and Technology, No. 334 Jungong Road, Shanghai, China (bdzhlx@usst.edu.cn)