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. 1 March 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 1, March 2014 http://www.ssllt.amu.edu.pl Contents Notes on Contributors ....................................................................... 7 Editorial ...........................................................................................11 Articles: Kay Irie – Q methodology for post-social-turn research in SLA ........... 13 Muriel Gallego – Second language learners’ reflections on the effectiveness of dictogloss: A multi-sectional, multi-level analysis .............................. 33 Abulfazl Mesgarshahr, Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh – The impact of teaching communication strategies on EFL learners’ Willingness to Communicate .. 51 Musa Nushi – Can L1 markedness and L2 input robustness account for fossilizability of L2 forms? (recalled) Shaopeng Li, Lianrui Yang – Topic prominence in Chinese EFL learners’ interlanguage .................................................................................................... 109 Book Reviews ................................................................................. 127 Notes to Contributors ..................................................................... 133 7 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 Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh has a PhD in TEFL and applied linguistics. He is an assistant professor teaching applied linguistics, ESP and advanced writing courses at the Department of Foreign Languages of Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran. He has presented and published nationally and inter- nationally on issues in second language academic reading and writing, dis- course and ESP, as well as language learning strategies. Contact details: Department of Foreign Languages, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran (eabdol@gmail.com) Muriel Gallego is an assistant professor of Spanish at Ohio University. She serves as Language Program Director and as Teaching Assistant Coordinator for the Spanish division of the Department of Modern Languages. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate level courses. She earned her PhD in Applied Lin- guistics-Spanish from Purdue University, where she also completed her Master's degree in Latin American literature and a graduate certificate in English as a Sec- ond Language (ESL). Her current research interests include theories of second language acquisition, foreign/second language pedagogy, critical pedagogy and sociolinguistics (variationism, dialectology and language in contact). Contact details: Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University, USA (gallego@ohio.edu) Kay Irie is a professor at Gakushuin University, Tokyo where she is developing a CLIL-based English program. She also teaches in the Graduate College of Edu- cation at Temple University Japan, Tokyo. Her current research interests in- clude learner autonomy and motivation in language education. She is a co- editor of Realizing Autonomy: Practice and Reflection in Language Education Contexts (2012, Palgrave Macmillan). 8 Contact details: Preparatory Office for the Faculty of International Social Stud- ies, Gakushuin University, 1-5-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, 171-8588 Japan (kay.irie@gakushuin.ac.jp) Shaopeng Li is currently undertaking a PhD at the School of English, Shanghai In- ternational Studies University, China. His research interests are in second language acquisition and EFL teaching, and more specifically in typological and discourse transfer in interlanguage and inter-individual and intra-individual factors influenc- ing second language acquisition. His publications appear in such journals as Jour- nal of Cambridge Studies, Journal of Foreign Languages, Contemporary Foreign Languages Studies and Foreign Language Research. He is now studying in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK as a visiting PhD student, which is funded by China Scholarship Council. Contact details: School of English, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, 200083 (lishaopeng99@126.com) Musa Nushi is an assistant professor of applied linguistics in Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. He received his PhD from the College of Foreign Lan- guages of Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran, Iran in 2013. He has taught English to Iranian EFL learners and teachers for almost 10 years. He spent the 2005-2006 academic year teaching Farsi in Portland State University, USA. His research interests lie mainly in the interface of second language acquisition and second language instruction, with particular emphasis on the role of cor- rective feedback in the L2 development. His work has appeared in journals such as Journal of Cognitive Science and Iranian Journal of Applied Linguistics. Contact details: Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Let- ters and Human Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran, Iran. Postal code: 1983969411 (mosesnushi@hotmail.com) Abulfazl Mesgarshahr has an MA in TEFL from the Department of Foreign Lan- guages at Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran. His research in- terests include second language production and Willingness to Communicate. Contact details: Department of Foreign Languages, Iran University of Science and Technology (eng.am31@gmail.com) Mirosław Pawlak is Professor of English in the English Department at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts of Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz, Poland. His main areas of interest are SLA theory and research, form-focused instruction, classroom discourse, learner autonomy, communication and learning strategies, individual 9 learner differences and pronunciation teaching. His recent publications include The Place of Form-Focused Instruction in The Foreign Language Classroom (2006, Adam Mickiewicz University Press) and several edited collections on learner au- tonomy, language policies of the Council of Europe, form-focused instruction, speaking in a foreign language and individual learner differences. Contact details: Department of English Studies, Faculty of Pedagogy and Fine Arts, Adam Mickiewicz University, Nowy Świat 28-30, 62-800 Kalisz, Poland (pawlakmi@amu.edu.pl) Lianrui Yang is currently Professor and Dean of the School of Foreign Lan- guages, Ocean University of China, Qingdao. His research interests are second language acquisition and foreign language teaching, with a focus on the dy- namic perspective on second language development. He is currently editorial board member of System, Language Learning Journal, International Journal of Language, Society and Culture. His recent books include China SL Studies (2013), Multi-Disciplinary Studies in SLA (2010) and Second Language Acquisi- tion and Foreign Language Teaching in China (2007). He has published more than one hundred research articles in academic journals. Contact details: School of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China, Qing- dao, 266100 (larryyang@126.com)