Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl Editors: Editor: Mirosław Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Jakub Bielak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Marek Derenowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Assistant to the Editor: Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz) Language Editor: Melanie Ellis (Language Teacher Training College, Zabrze) Vol. 4 No. 4 December 2014 Editorial Board: Janusz Arabski (University of Silesia) Larissa Aronin (Trinity College, Dublin) Helen Basturkmen (University of Auckland) Simon Borg (University of Leeds) Anne Burns (Aston University, Birmingham/University of New South Wales, Sydney) Piotr Cap (University of Łódź) Anna Cieślicka (Texas A&M International University, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Kata Csizer (Eötvös University, Budapest) Maria Dakowska (University of Warsaw) Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London) Krystyna Droździał-Szelest (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Rod Ellis (University of Auckland) Danuta Gabryś-Barker (University of Silesia) 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) Anna Michońska-Stadnik (University of Wrocław) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) Terrence Odlin (Ohio State University) 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) Michael Sharwood Smith (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) Linda Shockey (University of Reading) Teresa Siek-Piskozub (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) David Singleton (Trinity College, Dublin) Włodzimierz Sobkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) Merrill Swain (University of Toronto) Ewa Waniek-Klimczak (University of Łódź) Maria Wysocka (University of Silesia) KALISZ – POZNAŃ 2014 EDITOR: Mirosław Pawlak ASSISTANTS TO THE EDITOR: Jakub Bielak Marek Derenowski Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak © 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 4, Number 4, December 2014 http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl Contents Notes on Contributors ....................................................................587 Editorial .........................................................................................591 Articles: Rebecca Oxford – What we can learn about strategies, language learning, and life from two extreme cases: The role of well-being theory ......... 593 Danuta Główka – The impact of gender on attainment in learning English as a foreign language ...................................................................... 617 Colleen Neary-Sundquist – The use of pragmatic markers across proficiency levels in second language speech ................................. 637 Sasha S. Euler – Assessing instructional effects of proficiency-level EFL pronunciation teaching under a connected speech-based approach .....665 Rupert Walsh, Mark Wyatt – Contextual factors, methodological principles and teacher cognition ..................................................................... 693 Book Reviews ................................................................................. 719 Reviewers for Volume 4/2014 ......................................................... 725 Notes to Contributors .....................................................................727 587 Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl Notes on Contributors Sasha S. Euler is a teacher of English and ethics, teacher trainer and author. He holds degrees and certificates in TEFL, English linguistics, philosophical ethics and pedagogical psychology. His publications are predominantly centered on pronunciation pedagogy and classroom psychology. Contact data: University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, 54286 Trier (eulers@hot- mail.co.uk) Danuta Główka, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Higher Vocational State School in Leszno, Poland. She teaches introduction to linguistics, the history of the Eng- lish language and EFL grammar. Her main areas of interest are sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, and applied linguistics with primary focus on individual differ- ences in second language acquisition. Contact data: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa im. Jana Amosa Komeńskiego w Lesznie, ul. Adama Mickiewicza 5, 64-100 Leszno (danuta.glowka@pwsz.edu.pl) Rebecca Oxford is Professor Emerita and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland, and is currently an adjunct professor of psychology and language teaching at two campuses of the University of Alabama, USA. She has published more than 200 articles and chapters, a dozen books, and six journal special issues on learning strategies, individual differences, culture, teaching methods, and peace, as well as co-editing two book series, “Tapestry” (Heinle) and “Transforming Education for the Future” (Information Age Publishing). Her Lifetime Achievement Award states, “Rebecca Oxford's research on learning strategies changed the way the world teaches languages.” She has presented research in 42 countries. Contact data: rebeccaoxford@gmail.com Mirosław Pawlak is Professor of English in the English Department at the Fac- ulty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland. His main areas of interest are SLA theory and research, form-focused instruction, 588 classroom discourse, learner autonomy, communication and learning strategies, individual learner differences and pronunciation teaching. His recent publications include Error Correction in the Foreign Language Classroom. Reconsidering the issues (2012, Adam Mickiewicz University Press) and several edited collections on learner autonomy, language policies of the Council of Europe, form-focused in- struction, speaking in a foreign language and individual learner differences. 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) Rupert Walsh has been teaching EFL and EAP in the UK and Portugal since 2000. Currently based at the University of Portsmouth, he tutors on English language elements of degree courses for large cohorts of international students. He has also championed individual EAP tutorial support within the university and writes academic English reference materials. Rupert’s research interests include teacher cognition and the role of contextual factors in shaping teachers’ instruc- tional practices. He received his MA (distinction) in applied linguistics and TESOL from the University of Portsmouth in 2012. Contact data: University Tutor in EFL, School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, Park Building 4.06 (rupert.walsh@port.ac.uk) Mark Wyatt has worked in Thailand, Nepal, Oman and the UK, teaching, teacher training and managing teachers. Projects he has worked on include a BEd TESL for Malaysian pre-service teachers; he recently visited Malaysia to moderate the practicum. Currently a senior lecturer in English language and linguistics at the University of Portsmouth, Mark teaches research skills, linguistics and com- munication, supervises MA and PhD students, and co-convenes a language ed- ucation research group. His research interests include investigating teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs from a qualitative perspective, and exploratory action re- search. He has a PhD in education from the University of Leeds. Contact data: Senior Lecturer in ELL, School of Languages and Area Studies, Uni- versity of Portsmouth, Park Building 2.04 (mark.wyatt@port.ac.uk) Colleen Neary-Sundquist, PhD is an assistant professor of applied linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. Her research interests include the use of corpora in language teaching and re- search, task-based language teaching, the development of complexity in learner language, and materials development for language teaching. She has taught both German and English as second languages and regularly teaches graduate courses 589 on language pedagogy and theories of second language acquisition. Contact data: Purdue University, School of Languages and Cultures, 640 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA (e-mail: cnearysu@purdue.edu)