item: #1 of 187 id: tapsla-10111 author: Tilahun, Ayalew; Teka, Mulugeta; Simegn, Berhanu title: Investigating Effects of Integrated Reading and Writing Skills Instruction in Enhancing Students’ Critical Thinking Skills in EFL Classroom date: 2022-01-28 words: 9454 flesch: 46 summary: Finally, an in- dependent t-test was employed to compute the data, and then the results revealed that both the control and experimental group were homogeneous regarding their level in the pre-tests of critical thinking skills. However, after the treatment, the study showed the supremacy of integrated reading and writing skills instruction over the conventional approach in enhancing students’ critical thinking skills. keywords: control; difference; efl; group; language; reading; results; skills; students; study; test; text; thinking; thinking skills; writing cache: tapsla-10111.pdf plain text: tapsla-10111.txt item: #2 of 187 id: tapsla-10353 author: Tanyer, Seray; Deniz, Samet title: Turkish EFL Learners’ Acquisition of Psych Verbs and Unaccusative Verbs: A Replication Study on Underpassivization and Overpassivization date: 2022-01-28 words: 9768 flesch: 56 summary: It also aims to investigate whether Turkish L2 learners’ perceived word familiarity is related to their acquisition of psych verb and unaccusative verb constructions. 20 60.6 G = Grammatical, UNG = Ungrammatical, P = Passive, A = Active Table 15 shows the number and rate of participants accurately responded to the twelve items of unaccusative verb constructions in GJT. keywords: accuracy; acquisition; constructions; gjt; item; learners; participants; passive; psych; psych verbs; ranks; table; unaccusative; verbs cache: tapsla-10353.pdf plain text: tapsla-10353.txt item: #3 of 187 id: tapsla-10425 author: Safont, Pilar title: Book Review on Twelve Lectures of Multilingualism (2019) edited by David Singleton and Larissa Aronin date: 2022-01-28 words: 1432 flesch: 51 summary: As Aronin puts it, language use has changed dramatically as some languages are more dominant than others. This dynamic description accounts for reality of language use both at an individual and societal level. keywords: language; multilingualism; research; use cache: tapsla-10425.pdf plain text: tapsla-10425.txt item: #4 of 187 id: tapsla-10432 author: Karimi, Mahzad; Ghorbanchian, Elahe title: Effects of Adjunct Model of Instruction on EAP Learners’ Reading Comprehension Skill date: 2022-07-29 words: 7523 flesch: 49 summary: The effect of strategy-based instruction on EAP students’ reading performance and reading autonomy. It also contributes to employing the adjunct model to enable EAP architecture students to access academic knowl- edge while they are acquiring English proficiency. keywords: adjunct; comprehension; content; eap; english; groups; instruction; language; learners; model; reading; students; study; subject; teachers; teaching; test; university cache: tapsla-10432.pdf plain text: tapsla-10432.txt item: #5 of 187 id: tapsla-10482 author: Martin-Rubió, Xavier; Diert-Boté, Irati title: Catalan Law and Business Students in Italy: date: 2022-01-28 words: 7413 flesch: 61 summary: The project as a whole aimed at identifying the impact of the stay on three main areas: language level, intercultural awareness, and feeling of Europeanness. As an example, Catalan students are gradually obtaining higher results in the assessments of basic competences at the end of primary and secondary education (Generalitat de Catalunya, 2017); nevertheless, those evaluations do not assess oral production, which students believe to be the most problematic area for them (Diert-Boté, 2016). keywords: abroad; accuracy; english; errors; fluency; italy; josep; language; learning; maria; number; post; story; students; study; syllables cache: tapsla-10482.pdf plain text: tapsla-10482.txt item: #6 of 187 id: tapsla-10876 author: Marszołek, Gabriela title: Title pages and Contents date: 2020-12-23 words: 414 flesch: 29 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition Vol. 6 (2), 2020 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego • Katowice 2020 Editors-in-Chief Danuta Gabryś-Barker University of Silesia in Katowice Adam Wojtaszek University of Silesia in Katowice Language Editor David Schauffler University of Silesia in Katowice Editorial Board Janusz Arabski (University of Silesia, Katowice/Vistula University, Warsaw) keywords: adam; katowice; silesia; university cache: tapsla-10876.pdf plain text: tapsla-10876.txt item: #7 of 187 id: tapsla-10893 author: Marszołek, Gabriela title: Style Guide for the Authors date: 2020-12-23 words: 698 flesch: 64 summary: Retrieved from: http://www.molecu- larbrain.com/content/ Style Guide for the Authors 175 Bakker, A. B., Hakanen, J. J., Demerouti, E., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2007). Construction learning and second language acquisition. keywords: authors; lowercase; period; text cache: tapsla-10893.pdf plain text: tapsla-10893.txt item: #8 of 187 id: tapsla-10895 author: Marszołek, Gabriela title: Colophon date: 2020-12-23 words: 74 flesch: 48 summary: Cover photo: “big_blue” by Max Iter (Retrieved from www.f lickr.com) Copy editing: Gabriela Marszołek Proofreading: Joanna Zwierzyńska Typesetting: Marek Zagniński Electronic version is the original one. The journal is distributed free of charge ISSN 2451-2125 Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ul. keywords: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ cache: tapsla-10895.pdf plain text: tapsla-10895.txt item: #9 of 187 id: tapsla-11162 author: Kim, Hyang-Il title: The Impact of Individual Interest and Proficiency on Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Foreign Language Listening date: 2022-01-28 words: 7008 flesch: 52 summary: Individual interest best predicts self-regulation, with self-regulation being the most influential mediator of individual interest and academic performance. Student interest and achievement: Developmental issues raised by a case study. keywords: beliefs; efficacy; english; iel; individual; interest; learning; listening; proficiency; self; students; test; variables cache: tapsla-11162.pdf plain text: tapsla-11162.txt item: #10 of 187 id: tapsla-11346 author: Wojtaszek, Adam; Gabryś-Barker, Danuta title: Preface date: 2021-01-29 words: 1721 flesch: 41 summary: This recent publication is a resource book for language teachers who appreciate the significance of emotions and good relationships in the process of language learning and teaching, that is, those who hold a more open vision of education, catering for the whole person and not just the target skills. It was founded on our belief that although Poland has a strong presence among second language acquisition and multilinguality researchers, which is demonstrated by the large number of conferences and also book publications appearing every year, academic journals like this one, concerned with both theoretical issues and the practical concerns of SLA, are not that numerous. keywords: english; journal; language; paper; polish cache: tapsla-11346.pdf plain text: tapsla-11346.txt item: #11 of 187 id: tapsla-11388 author: Garton, Rachel title: The Impact of Orthographic Transparency and Typology on L2 Learner Perceptions date: 2023-08-16 words: 9693 flesch: 46 summary: A more detailed breakdown of L2 languages among the responses are listed in Appendix A. Orthographic consistency and individual learner differences in second language literacy acquisition. keywords: accuracy; alphabet; difficulty; english; language; literacy; orthography; study; system; transparency; typology; writing cache: tapsla-11388.pdf plain text: tapsla-11388.txt item: #12 of 187 id: tapsla-11433 author: Marszołek, Gabriela title: Style Guide for the Authors date: 2021-01-29 words: 698 flesch: 64 summary: Retrieved from: http://www.molecu- larbrain.com/content/ Style Guide for the Authors 157 Bakker, A. B., Hakanen, J. J., Demerouti, E., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2007). Construction learning and second language acquisition. keywords: authors; lowercase; period; text cache: tapsla-11433.pdf plain text: tapsla-11433.txt item: #13 of 187 id: tapsla-11444 author: Marszołek, Gabriela title: Colophon date: 2021-01-29 words: 79 flesch: 54 summary: The journal was previously published in printed form with the ISSN 2450-5455 Printed sheets: 10.0. keywords: cover cache: tapsla-11444.pdf plain text: tapsla-11444.txt item: #14 of 187 id: tapsla-11512 author: Nováková, Zuzana title: Making Students Responsible for Grammar Learning: A Report on a Learner-Centered Technique Aimed at Accuracy date: 2023-04-03 words: 7783 flesch: 58 summary: Following the procedure proposed by Corder (1975) and elaborated by Ellis and Burkhuizen (2005), several steps were taken to analyze learner language. Seventeen samples of learner language were analyzed. keywords: development; errors; grammar; language; learners; learning; phrase; reflection; self; speaking; students; task; verb cache: tapsla-11512.pdf plain text: tapsla-11512.txt item: #15 of 187 id: tapsla-11514 author: Babic, Sonja; Mercer, Sarah; Mairitsch, Astrid; Gruber, Johanna; Hempkin, Kirsten title: Language Teacher Wellbeing in the Workplace date: 2022-01-28 words: 10075 flesch: 54 summary: Organizational factors known to adversely affect teacher wellbeing include discipline is- sues (Skaalvik & Skaalvik 2011), excessive workload (Smithers & Robinson, 2008), potential for interpersonal conflicts (Skaalvik & Skaalvik 2007), role conflict and ambiguity (Travers & Cooper, 1996), lack of adequate resources and facilities (Aldrup et al.,2017), responsibility for evaluation (Kyriacou, 2001), and accountability demands (Rogers, 2012). This implies that teacher wellbeing can fluctuate according to the relative weighting of positive resources to draw on, balanced against negative factors and demands challenging their wellbeing. keywords: culture; example; factors; individual; language; language teacher; mercer; participants; psychology; relationships; research; study; teacher wellbeing; teachers; teaching; wellbeing; workplace cache: tapsla-11514.pdf plain text: tapsla-11514.txt item: #16 of 187 id: tapsla-11581 author: Kim, Hyang-Il title: Investigating the Roles of the Four Sources of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in an EFL Listening Context date: 2022-06-01 words: 10475 flesch: 60 summary: It affects efficacy beliefs by allowing one to assess their own ability in relation to modeled attainments. It should be noted that the effect of this on efficacy beliefs lies in how individuals interpret this arousal. keywords: asse; beliefs; bsse; effect; efficacy; english; listening; p e; s e; self; sources; students cache: tapsla-11581.pdf plain text: tapsla-11581.txt item: #17 of 187 id: tapsla-11585 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta title: Preface date: 2021-07-09 words: 1711 flesch: 39 summary: The author discusses various factors that may have an impact on this transfer such as the amount of exposure to L2, language context or the status of the languages and the characteristics of speakers. This issue therefore offers both theoretical overviews and practical reflec- tions based on individual researcher’s empirical work and experiences in the realm of teaching and learning foreign languages—in traditional as well as in less-conventional e-learning contexts. keywords: context; journal; language; learners; learning cache: tapsla-11585.pdf plain text: tapsla-11585.txt item: #18 of 187 id: tapsla-11716 author: Szymańska-Tworek, Aleksandra title: Mentoring as Professional Development for Mentors date: 2022-07-29 words: 8196 flesch: 57 summary: Gilles and Wilson (2004, p. 91) point out that through contacts with student teachers mentors often get reenergized in their profession. Although both mentoring and supervision can be hierarchical in na- ture, mentoring implies greater collegiality between the classroom teacher and student teacher, which means their relationship is more likely to be based on dialogue and reciprocity (Ambrosetti, 2014, p. 31, Carruthers, 1993, cited in Walkington, 2005, p. 56). keywords: development; experience; learning; mentoring; mentors; questionnaire; respondents; skills; student; student teacher; teachers; teaching cache: tapsla-11716.pdf plain text: tapsla-11716.txt item: #19 of 187 id: tapsla-11768 author: Ghelichli, Yahya; Seyyedrezaei, Seyyed Hassan; Seyyedrezaei, Zari Sadat title: Improving Student Engagement and Motivation: Perspectives of Iranian EFL Learners date: 2022-07-29 words: 7632 flesch: 53 summary: The present study thus aimed at investigating the ways to improve student engagement as well as motivation with a qualitative design. The findings of the study led to a model of determinants of student engagement and language learning motivation. keywords: class; engagement; language; learners; learning; motivation; participants; research; student engagement; students; study; teacher cache: tapsla-11768.pdf plain text: tapsla-11768.txt item: #20 of 187 id: tapsla-11788 author: Piasecka, Liliana title: When “grass was greener”*: Longplay Album Covers and Learning English. A Retrospection date: 2022-05-31 words: 7773 flesch: 56 summary: These correspondences between music and language may explain why people, including foreign language learners, have always shown such a strong liking of music. Although such an important contribution of songs to foreign language learning and teaching has been recognised, their use in the classroom is “episodic” (Shayakhmetova et al., 2017, p. 644) and their po- tential for the growth of linguistic and socio-cultural knowledge is definitely unexplored. keywords: album; beatles; covers; culture; development; english; inglis; language; language learning; learners; learning; lyrics; material; music; people; pop; records; songs; teaching cache: tapsla-11788.pdf plain text: tapsla-11788.txt item: #21 of 187 id: tapsla-11862 author: Cilibrasi, Luca; Marková, Daniela title: The Development of Language Skills in Speakers of English as an Additional Language. What Matters More, Daily Use or Age of Onset? date: 2022-07-29 words: 9825 flesch: 55 summary: Studies on second language use as a predictor of language skills are less common, but their findings go in the same direction (this is not surprising, since expo- sure and use are correlated variables). Keywords: bilingualism, age of onset, language use, English as L2 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.11862 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-0542 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5641-614X Luca Cilibrasi, Daniela Marková2 Age of Onset and Language Use Proficient L2 Late Learners Can one learn a second language proficiently if exposure starts later in life? keywords: daily; english; interview; language; language use; learners; learning; lextale; onset; predictor; proficiency; skills; speakers; study; use cache: tapsla-11862.pdf plain text: tapsla-11862.txt item: #22 of 187 id: tapsla-11943 author: Babajani Azizi, Danial; Gharanjik, Nourollah; Dehqan, Mahmood title: The Effects of Mobile-mediated Explicit and Implicit Feedback on EFL Learners’ Use of English Prepositions date: 2022-07-29 words: 7514 flesch: 52 summary: Corrective feedback is neces- sarily an instructional strategy contributing language learners to improve their written channels (Ferris, 2010). The effect of written corrective feedback on Omani students’ accuracy in the use of English prepositions. keywords: control; effects; english; error; feedback; groups; language; learners; learning; mobile; post; prepositions; study; test; wcf; writing cache: tapsla-11943.pdf plain text: tapsla-11943.txt item: #23 of 187 id: tapsla-12006 author: Válková, Silvie; Kořínková, Jana title: Approaches to Teaching Agreement and Disagreement in Selected Coursebook Series date: 2023-04-05 words: 8207 flesch: 55 summary: Agreement and Disagreement in Navigate The A1 level includes agreement phrases in everyday phrases (Tea? Language of Agreement and Disagreement Explicitly Introduced in English File and Navigate Agreement Thirty-one explicitly introduced phrases of agreement were recorded in the English File coursebooks and 41 in the Navigate coursebooks. keywords: coursebooks; disagreement; english; file; language; navigate; phrases; politeness; series; students; teaching; university cache: tapsla-12006.pdf plain text: tapsla-12006.txt item: #24 of 187 id: tapsla-12089 author: Hauser, Caterina title: Mariusz Kruk and Mark Peterson (Eds.), New Technological Applications for Foreign and Second Language Learning and Teaching date: 2022-01-28 words: 1778 flesch: 35 summary: Section Two, which assembles practical applications of technologies in language learning and teaching, begins with Farhana Ahmed’s contribution on “Investigating Learner Autonomy and 21st Century Skills in Blended Tech-Enhanced Language Learning” (Chapter Six). This volume provides detailed insights in the scope and breadth of practice in and research into the intersection between language learning and technol- ogy. keywords: applications; chapter; language; learning; research; teaching cache: tapsla-12089.pdf plain text: tapsla-12089.txt item: #25 of 187 id: tapsla-12096 author: Al Shlowiy, Ahmed; Layali, Khaled title: EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of a Long Shift to Online Learning in a Saudi University during the Coronavirus Pandemic date: 2023-04-05 words: 7407 flesch: 54 summary: In other words, since EFL teachers perceived online learning to be an easy to use and valuable teaching option during the coronavirus pandemic, this affected their attitude towards online learning and Blackboard, which in turn affected their behavioral intention to use them and thus resulted in using online learning and Blackboard to teach EFL. Al-Qahtani (2019) studied EFL teachers’ and students’ perceptions of vir- tual classes and whether these perceptions enhanced communication skills. keywords: benefits; classes; coronavirus; drawbacks; education; efl; internet; learning; online; pandemic; perceptions; saudi; students; study; teachers; teaching; university; use cache: tapsla-12096.pdf plain text: tapsla-12096.txt item: #26 of 187 id: tapsla-12097 author: Mahdavy, Babak; Mousavi Namavar, Masoomeh title: Listening Strategies and L2 Listening Comprehension: Does the Test Method Matter? date: 2023-04-07 words: 8430 flesch: 53 summary: Another finding of the study was that the relationships between listening strategies and comprehension are mediated by the type of test methods (Bachman, 1990; TAPSLA.12097 p. 18/22 Babak Mahdavy, Masoomeh Mousavi Namavar Rukthong, 2021) as the results of correlation and regression tests revealed that metacognitive listening strategies can significantly improve our prediction of listening performance especially if the test takers’ listening ability is measured by a multiple-choice test. The results showed that L2 learners’ use of metacognitive listening strategies is the strongest predictor of listening performance. keywords: change; comprehension; language; learners; listening; listening strategies; metacognitive; performance; pet; socio; strategies; table; test; use cache: tapsla-12097.pdf plain text: tapsla-12097.txt item: #27 of 187 id: tapsla-12143 author: Marszołek, Gabriela title: Style Guide for the Authors date: 2021-07-09 words: 725 flesch: 63 summary: Retrieved from: http://www.molecu- larbrain.com/content/ Style Guide for the Authors 195 Bakker, A. B., Hakanen, J. J., Demerouti, E., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2007). Construction learning and second language acquisition. keywords: authors; period; text cache: tapsla-12143.pdf plain text: tapsla-12143.txt item: #28 of 187 id: tapsla-12144 author: none title: Colophon date: 2021-07-09 words: 79 flesch: 54 summary: The journal was previously published in printed form with the ISSN 2450-5455 Printed sheets: 12.25. keywords: cover cache: tapsla-12144.pdf plain text: tapsla-12144.txt item: #29 of 187 id: tapsla-12376 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Preface date: 2022-01-28 words: 1752 flesch: 38 summary: The younger brothers of CALL—Virtual Reality, social media and even chatbots—are more and more often successfully introduced into the classroom by language teachers and eagerly utilized by language learners, so a volume focusing on their applicability is undoubtedly another must-read. The author attempted to challenge the traditional separation of language skills, which is still a com- mon practice in Ethiopia, in order to find support for a modification of teach- ing practices. keywords: journal; language; learners; research; volume cache: tapsla-12376.pdf plain text: tapsla-12376.txt item: #30 of 187 id: tapsla-12378 author: Brinkmann, Lisa Marie title: Larissa Aronin, Eva Vetter (Eds.) (2021). Dominant Language Constellations Approach in Education and Language Acquisition. Springer — by Lisa Marie Brinkmann date: 2022-07-29 words: 2397 flesch: 40 summary: All the parts (Dominant Language Constellations in Language Education Policy and School Practices; Dominant Language Constellations in Teacher Training; Dominant Language Constellations and Identity Through Narratives and Visualizations) of the sec- ond volume can be understood as completing the parts Current Developments in DLC Research and Institutional Expressions of DLC of the first volume by enhancing empirical studies (e.g., Vetter’s research on language policy and Slavkov’s insights into family language policies) and as continuing the first volume’s part Personal and Group Experiences with DLC (e.g., Björklund and Björklund’s study on teacher trainers in Finland and Yoel’s contribution on the group DLC of Russian immigrants in Israel). The results indicate that DLC can be used to understand language policy and its planning, involving bottom-up and top-down structures in educational language policy. keywords: constellations; dlc; dominant; language; multilingual cache: tapsla-12378.pdf plain text: tapsla-12378.txt item: #31 of 187 id: tapsla-12445 author: Dendrinos, Bessie title: Joseph Lo Bianco, Larissa Aronin (Eds.) (2020). Dominant LanguageConstellations: A New Perspective on Multilingualism. Springer — by Bessie Dendrinos date: 2022-07-29 words: 3337 flesch: 41 summary: One more point that the authors make is that DLC “operates as a coherent whole, and therefore is the account of what an individual or wider grouping’s specific repertoire of used languages is in a given time and setting.” Finally, it is worth noting that what has not been highlighted adequately but is quite important in the com- parison between the two constructs is that DLC concerns different languages 1 Plurilingual competence—a concept which to be revisited shortly in this review—roughly refers to the ability to use, in different ways and forms of communication, the different lan- guages a person knows. keywords: aronin; dlc; individual; language; multilingual; repertoire; translanguaging cache: tapsla-12445.pdf plain text: tapsla-12445.txt item: #32 of 187 id: tapsla-12468 author: Luef, Eva Maria; Resnik, Pia title: Phonotactic Probabilities and Sub-syllabic Segmentation in Language Learning date: 2023-04-07 words: 11488 flesch: 62 summary: Based on previous work on word frequencies, several predic- tions can be inferred regarding frequency and probability effects in relation to phonotactic combinations. Word frequency and context of use in the lexical diffusion of phonetically conditioned sound change. keywords: american; austrian; bigram; corpus; effects; efl; english; fortis; frequencies; frequency; german; high; initial; korean; language; learners; learning; lenis; onset; phoneme; phonetic; phonotactic; plosives; probabilities; speech; vot; word cache: tapsla-12468.pdf plain text: tapsla-12468.txt item: #33 of 187 id: tapsla-12573 author: Nosidlak, Katarzyna title: Hopeless Cases or Just Hard Nuts to Crack? Stories of “Difficult” Foreign Language Learners date: 2023-07-20 words: 8502 flesch: 54 summary: Keywords: difficult/problematic student, foreign language learner, formal labelling, infor- mal labelling, labelling theory, teacher training While reading posts published on different forums and online groups for foreign language teachers, on numerous occasions one might notice hashtags labelling students in a negative way. Teacher labelling and the self-fulfilling prophecy. keywords: cases; context; labelling; language; learning; problems; self; students; study; tapsla.12573; teacher; teaching; way cache: tapsla-12573.pdf plain text: tapsla-12573.txt item: #34 of 187 id: tapsla-12575 author: Szyszka, Magdalena title: Context-related Beliefs about L2 Language Learning and Teaching of the Millennial Pre-service EFL Teachers as a Prognosis for Future Classroom Actions date: 2023-02-02 words: 7813 flesch: 56 summary: Feryok (2010) studied the dynamic nature of language teacher cognition, including beliefs, and found that context had a mediating impact on language teachers’ cognitions and beliefs. Language teacher cognitions: Complex dynamic systems? keywords: beliefs; education; english; language; language learning; learning; participants; pre; service; teacher; teaching cache: tapsla-12575.pdf plain text: tapsla-12575.txt item: #35 of 187 id: tapsla-12576 author: Budzińska, Katarzyna title: Language Teacher Wellbeing in the Private School Context: A Case Study date: 2023-07-20 words: 11278 flesch: 57 summary: As far as stressors more specific to private language school teachers are concerned, job insecurity and lack of benefits were mentioned by two full-time, self- employed freelance staff members, which is consistent with previous research run in the private sector (Mercer, 2020b). However, some variables that affect language teacher wellbeing at this workplace are specific to the nature of the institution and, therefore, could not be put into practice elsewhere. keywords: 2020b; institution; instructors; language; language teacher; mercer; positive; private; psychology; research; school; staff; study; teacher; teacher wellbeing; teaching; wellbeing cache: tapsla-12576.pdf plain text: tapsla-12576.txt item: #36 of 187 id: tapsla-12609 author: Scheuer, Sylwia; Horgues, Céline title: “Three months on, I still sound like an Anglophone”: Tales of Success and Failure told by English and French Tandem Partners date: 2023-08-18 words: 9730 flesch: 53 summary: In C. Tardieu & C. Horgues (Eds.), Redefining tandem language and culture learning in higher education (pp. 147–160). Sylwia Scheuer, Céline Horgues Egi (2010) later emphasized that not all types of learner uptake responses are equally predictive of L2 development. keywords: english; feedback; french; language; learner; learning; lyster; nns; participants; partner; pronunciation; success; tandem; uptake cache: tapsla-12609.pdf plain text: tapsla-12609.txt item: #37 of 187 id: tapsla-12621 author: Tołoczko, Ewa title: Diagnostic Abilities of Novice Teachers date: 2023-07-20 words: 9904 flesch: 46 summary: Mentoring student teachers. The hidden side of the work: Teacher knowledge and learning to teach. keywords: abilities; analysis; classroom; cognitive; events; incidents; knowledge; language; learning; novice; participants; practice; reports; research; students; study; task; teachers; teaching cache: tapsla-12621.pdf plain text: tapsla-12621.txt item: #38 of 187 id: tapsla-12686 author: Rokita-Jaśkow, Joanna; Werbińska, Dorota title: Language Teacher Identity and Emotions in a Duoethnographic Narrative: The Perspective of Teacher, Parent, and Teacher Educator date: 2023-07-21 words: 11295 flesch: 55 summary: In the discussion section, we explore what this reveals about teacher emotions in language teacher identity. What teachers encounter, undergo, and tolerate, and how this experience relates to teachers’ practices has prompted a surge of interest in the study of language teacher emotions. keywords: dorota; emotions; english; experience; identity; joanna; language; language teacher; learning; professional; research; school; tapsla.12686; teacher; teacher emotions; teacher identity; teaching; werbińska cache: tapsla-12686.pdf plain text: tapsla-12686.txt item: #39 of 187 id: tapsla-12691 author: Kusiak-Pisowacka, Monika title: Exploring FL Readers’ Metacognitive Beliefs: Narrations from Learner Diaries date: 2023-04-05 words: 10615 flesch: 57 summary: Keywords: metacognition, strategy training, reading strategies, diaries, student beliefs Metacognitive strategies “appear to have ‘ecological validity’; that is, they are recognizable components in ‘real-life situations’” (Brown, 1980, p. 454). Metacognitive strategy training for ESL reading. keywords: beliefs; diaries; knowledge; language; learners; learning; metacognition; readers; reading; research; strategies; strategy; students; tasks; text; training cache: tapsla-12691.pdf plain text: tapsla-12691.txt item: #40 of 187 id: tapsla-12797 author: Liu, Meihua title: Chinese University Students’ Beliefs about English Language Learning and Self-efficacy date: 2023-02-06 words: 11080 flesch: 69 summary: Keywords: English learning belief, self-efficacy, difference, proficiency, feedback, strategy Introduction Generally concerned with beliefs about the nature and process of language learning, including perceptions of mistakes, self-efficacy and the role of feed- back, language learning beliefs are often measured by questionnaires and interviews in specific contexts. Language learning beliefs are beliefs about how to learn a second language that emerge through one’s own experience and the influence of others (Horwitz, 1987). keywords: band; beliefs; chinese; efficacy; elbi; english; items; language; language learning; learners; learning; learning beliefs; self; students; university cache: tapsla-12797.pdf plain text: tapsla-12797.txt item: #41 of 187 id: tapsla-12816 author: Pitura, Joanna; Chang, Heejin title: Tools for Scaffolding the Development of L2 Speaking in English-medium Higher Education: Lessons from Poland and Australia date: 2023-07-21 words: 14208 flesch: 53 summary: The current study uses part of a large dataset and considers five groups of items that investigated student tool perceptions in terms of in- and out-of- class activities, learning resources, feedback from peers and the instructor, and technology. Finally, technology appears to support student learning throughout the course. keywords: activities; class; development; english; feedback; language; learning; research; resources; scaffolding; skills; speaking; speaking skills; students; study; support; tapsla.12816; technology; tools; use cache: tapsla-12816.pdf plain text: tapsla-12816.txt item: #42 of 187 id: tapsla-13123 author: Mairitsch, Astrid; Babic, Sonja; Mercer, Sarah; Sulis, Giulia; Shin, Sun title: The Role of Compassion during the Shift to Online Teaching for Language Teacher Wellbeing date: 2023-02-16 words: 9367 flesch: 53 summary: For example, Lepp et al. (2021) showed that online teaching has shifted teachers’ focus from subject The Role of Compassion during the Shift to Online Teaching… TAPSLA.13123 p. 5/22 matter competences to a greater valuing of socialization and the wellbeing of students, and thus, the importance of teacher compassion. 1/22 https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.13123 Astrid Mairitsch https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9885-3399 University of Graz, Austria Sonja Babic https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1004-3090 University of Graz, Austria Sarah Mercer https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2558-8149 University of Graz, Austria Giulia Sulis https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8438-6275 University of Graz, Austria Sun Shin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4380-8459 University of Graz, Austria The Role of Compassion during the Shift to Online Teaching for Language Teacher Wellbeing A b s t r a c t Research on compassion has received increasing attention over the past decades (Seppälä et al., 2017). keywords: compassion; crisis; language; online; pandemic; research; role; self; students; study; teachers; teaching; wellbeing cache: tapsla-13123.pdf plain text: tapsla-13123.txt item: #43 of 187 id: tapsla-13158 author: none title: Stule Guide date: 2022-01-28 words: 724 flesch: 63 summary: Retrieved from: http://www.molecu- larbrain.com/content/ Style Guide for the Authors 191 Bakker, A. B., Hakanen, J. J., Demerouti, E., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2007). Construction learning and second language acquisition. keywords: authors; period cache: tapsla-13158.pdf plain text: tapsla-13158.txt item: #44 of 187 id: tapsla-13159 author: none title: Colophon date: 2022-01-28 words: 78 flesch: 54 summary: The journal was previously published in printed form with the ISSN 2450-5455 Printed sheets: 12.0. keywords: cover cache: tapsla-13159.pdf plain text: tapsla-13159.txt item: #45 of 187 id: tapsla-13190 author: Hempkin, Kirsten title: Language Teacher Identity Outside the State-School Context date: 2023-07-20 words: 9158 flesch: 61 summary: 1/22 https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.13190 Kirsten Hempkin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4035-0665 University of Maribor, Slovenia Language Teacher Identity Outside the State-School Context A b s t r a c t The importance of understanding language teacher identity is well-established in the existent literature. Keywords: Language teacher identity, identity struggle, established teachers, state-school con- text, private context https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.13190 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4035-0665 TAPSLA.13190 p. 2/22 keywords: context; education; english; identity; language; language teacher; participants; professional; research; school; sector; state; study; teacher; teacher identity; teaching cache: tapsla-13190.pdf plain text: tapsla-13190.txt item: #46 of 187 id: tapsla-13253 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam title: Preface date: 2022-07-29 words: 2098 flesch: 38 summary: We aim at keeping high stan- dards and quality, which are guaranteed by the international Editorial Board of TAPSLA, whose members are well-known Polish and foreign experts on a wide range of second language acquisition issues. These seniors’ motivation to learn a FL is defined as communication both in a natural envi- ronment (abroad) and in the classroom in a non-threatening climate established by a professional, patient, and empathetic language teacher. keywords: issue; journal; language; learners; research cache: tapsla-13253.pdf plain text: tapsla-13253.txt item: #47 of 187 id: tapsla-13311 author: Mitkovska, Liljana; Bužarovska, Eleni; Stojanovska-Ilievska, Natasha title: Acquisition of Structures at Syntax-Discourse Interface: Post-Verbal Subjects in L2 English date: 2023-08-18 words: 8657 flesch: 52 summary: The results revealed that L2 learners find English VS sentences and VS + it-insertion examples more acceptable than the native speakers, but the performance of the advanced group is closer to the native speakers than to the intermediate learners. Acquisition of Structures at Syntax-Discourse Interface… TAPSLA.13311 p. 19/22 Concluding Remarks The results of this research show that Macedonian learners generally find English VS sentences, as well as VS + it-insertion examples, more acceptable than native speakers of English, but the extent of this acceptance is variable depending on students’ level of English proficiency. keywords: acquisition; advanced; discourse; english; inversion; learners; macedonian; sentences; structures; subject; svi cache: tapsla-13311.pdf plain text: tapsla-13311.txt item: #48 of 187 id: tapsla-13742 author: Aziz, Muhammad Fahruddin; Jayaputri, Herlandri Eka title: Schmitt, N., & Rodgers, M. P. H. (Eds.) An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (3rd ed.) Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2020. 404 pp. date: 2023-04-07 words: 1779 flesch: 50 summary: Since the term applied linguistics was coined in the 1950s (Davies, 1999), various books published henceforth have concurred that applied linguistics can be regarded as the academic discipline that looks at the knowledge about language and how it is used to make decisions in a real-life context (Simpson et al., 2019). The preface of the book is arguably the most noticeable component, written by Marianne Celce-Murcia and Norbert Schmitt, and discusses an overview of applied linguistics simplifying the definition of the subject. keywords: chapter; language; learning; linguistics cache: tapsla-13742.pdf plain text: tapsla-13742.txt item: #49 of 187 id: tapsla-13865 author: Hartshorn, K. James; Surer, Aylin title: Contributions toward Understanding the Acquisition of Eight Aspects of Vocabulary Knowledge date: 2023-07-21 words: 10683 flesch: 53 summary: ANOVA results show accuracy levels varied across word knowledge aspects and that implicational scaling was possible with some but not all aspects of word knowledge examined simultaneously. 1/31 https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.13865 K. James Hartshorn https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0629-7410 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA Aylin Surer https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5490-8518 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA Contributions toward Understanding the Acquisition of Eight Aspects of Vocabulary Knowledge A b s t r a c t With the intent of adding to the literature leading toward a more complete theory of second language vocabulary acquisition, this study elicited accuracy data from 110 ESL learners ranging from novice high to advanced low on 64 words randomly selected in the 2K–3K range of Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (32 verbs, 24 nouns, 8 adjectives) covering eight aspects of word knowledge. keywords: acquisition; aspects; definition; form; item; language; learners; learning; meaning; performance; reading; schmitt; students; study; test; vocabulary; word; word knowledge cache: tapsla-13865.pdf plain text: tapsla-13865.txt item: #50 of 187 id: tapsla-14121 author: Wlosowicz, Teresa Maria title: The Relationship between Students’ Motivation for Studying Business English and Their Knowledge of Business English and Its Terminology date: 2023-08-21 words: 9969 flesch: 59 summary: 1/26 https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.14121 Teresa Maria Włosowicz https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8767-9332 University of Economics and Humanities, Bielsko-Biała The Relationship between Students’ Motivation for Studying Business English and Their Knowledge of Business English and The study investigates the relationship between English Philology students’ motivation for studying Business English and their actual knowledge of business terminology, some underlying economic concepts and basic rules of business correspondence. keywords: business; business english; english; knowledge; language; learning; motivation; needs; students; year cache: tapsla-14121.pdf plain text: tapsla-14121.txt item: #51 of 187 id: tapsla-14227 author: Team, Editorial title: Contents date: 2022-07-29 words: 204 flesch: -49 summary: Contents Preface (Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Adam Wojtaszek) Articles Liliana Piasecka When “grass was greener”: Longplay Album Covers and Learning English A Retrospection Luca Cilibrasi, Daniela Marková The Development of Language Skills in Speakers of English as an Additional Language What Matters More, Daily Use or Age of Onset? Anna Borkowska The Relationship between Age-advanced Learners’ In-class Willingness to Communicate in English, Intrinsic Motivation, Classroom Environment and Teacher Immediacy—A Pilot Study Yahya Ghelichli, Seyyed Hassan Seyyedrezaei, Zari Sadat Seyyedrezaei Improving Student Engagement and Motivation: Perspectives of Iranian EFL Learners Hyang-Il Kim Investigating the Roles of the Four Sources of Self-Efficacy Beliefs in an EFL Listening Context Mahzad Karimi, Elahe Ghorbanchian Effects of Adjunct Model of Instruction on EAP Learners’ Reading Comprehension Skill Danial Babajani Azizi, Nourollah Gharanjik, Mahmood Dehqan The Effects of Mobile-mediated Explicit and Implicit Feedback on EFL Learners’ Use of English Prepositions Aleksandra Szymańska-Tworek Mentoring as Professional Development for Mentors Contents4 Reviews Joseph Lo Bianco, Larissa Aronin (Eds ) (2020) Dominant Language Constellations: A New Perspective on Multilingualism Springer — by Bessie Dendrinos Larissa Aronin, Eva Vetter (Eds ) (2021) Dominant Language Constellations Approach in Education and Language Acquisition Springer — by Lisa Marie Brinkmann Style Guide for the Authors keywords: english; language cache: tapsla-14227.pdf plain text: tapsla-14227.txt item: #52 of 187 id: tapsla-14228 author: Team, Editorial title: Style Guide date: 2022-07-29 words: 767 flesch: 65 summary: Retrieved from: http://www.molecu- larbrain.com/content/ Bakker, A. B., Hakanen, J. J., Demerouti, E., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2007). Construction learning and second language acquisition. keywords: authors; paragraph; title cache: tapsla-14228.pdf plain text: tapsla-14228.txt item: #53 of 187 id: tapsla-14229 author: Team, Editorial title: Colophon date: 2022-07-29 words: 79 flesch: 54 summary: The journal was previously published in printed form with the ISSN 2450-5455 Printed sheets: 13.0. keywords: cover cache: tapsla-14229.pdf plain text: tapsla-14229.txt item: #54 of 187 id: tapsla-14558 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam title: Preface date: 2023-04-05 words: 2076 flesch: 41 summary: The articles selected offer a balanced range of teachers’ and learners’ perspectives on various aspects of the process of language teaching and learning, in a variety of contexts, with the clearly visible motif of the recent COVID-19 pandemic as an important factor which has shaped both teachers’ and learners’ experience and attitudes. Additionally, they also managed to establish which type of listening strategy turned out to be the strongest predictor of learners’ overall performance. keywords: journal; language; learners; learning; research; teachers cache: tapsla-14558.pdf plain text: tapsla-14558.txt item: #55 of 187 id: tapsla-15148 author: Hoyte-West, Antony title: Zoltán Dörnyei, Katerina Mentzelopoulos, „Lessons From Exceptional Language Learners Who Have Achieved Nativelike Proficiency: Motivation, Cognition and Identity" Multilingual Matters, 2022, xviii + 196 pp. date: 2023-07-21 words: 1521 flesch: 43 summary: Lessons from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency: Motivation, cognition and identity. Stories from exceptional language learners who have achieved nativelike proficiency. keywords: dörnyei; language; learners; mentzelopoulos cache: tapsla-15148.pdf plain text: tapsla-15148.txt item: #56 of 187 id: tapsla-15486 author: Team, Editorial title: Contents date: 2023-04-21 words: 195 flesch: 2 summary: Contents Preface (Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Adam Wojtaszek) Articles Magdalena Szyszka Context-related Beliefs about L2 Language Learning and Teaching of the Millennial Pre-service EFL Teachers as a Prognosis for Future Classroom Actions Meihua Liu Chinese University Students’ Beliefs about English Language Learning and Self-efficacy Astrid Mairitsch, Sonja Babic, Sarah Mercer, Giulia Sulis, Sun Shin The Role of Compassion during the Shift to Online Teaching for Language Teacher Wellbeing Ahmed Al Shlowiy, Khaled Layali EFL Teachers’ Perceptions of a Long Shift to Online Learning in a Saudi University during the Coronavirus Pandemic Monika Kusiak-Pisowacka Exploring FL Readers’ Metacognitive Beliefs: Narrations from Learner Diaries Babak Mahdavy, Masoomeh Mousavi Namavar Listening Strategies and L2 Listening Comprehension: Does the Test Method Matter? Eva Maria Luef, Pia Resnik Phonotactic Probabilities and Sub-syllabic Segmentation in Language Learning Zuzana Nováková Making Students Responsible for Grammar Learning: A Report on a Learner- centered Technique Aimed at Accuracy Silvie Válková, Jana Kořínková Approaches to Teaching Agreement and Disagreement in Selected Coursebook Series Reviews N. Schmitt, M. P. H. Rotgers (2020). keywords: language; learning cache: tapsla-15486.pdf plain text: tapsla-15486.txt item: #57 of 187 id: tapsla-15487 author: Team, Editorial title: Style Guide for the Authors date: 2023-04-21 words: 754 flesch: 64 summary: Retrieved from: http://www.molecu- larbrain.com/content/ Bakker, A. B., Hakanen, J. J., Demerouti, E., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2007). Construction learning and second language acquisition. keywords: authors; title cache: tapsla-15487.pdf plain text: tapsla-15487.txt item: #58 of 187 id: tapsla-15488 author: Team, Editorial title: Colophon date: 2023-04-21 words: 81 flesch: 54 summary: The journal was previously published in printed form with the ISSN 2450-5455 Printed sheets: 14.75. keywords: cover cache: tapsla-15488.pdf plain text: tapsla-15488.txt item: #59 of 187 id: tapsla-3930 author: Pfenninger, Simone E.; Singleton, David title: The Age Factor in the Foreign Language Class: What Do Learners Think? date: 2016-06-25 words: 7349 flesch: 63 summary: The attitude of the early high achievers, on the other hand, had moved away from the enthusiasm for primary school language instruction evidenced at Time 1, and showed signs of being affected by disappointment with the effectiveness of such instruction. Language learner autonomy: Some fundamental considerations revisited. keywords: achievers; early; english; language; late; learners; learning; motivation; primary; school; starters; time cache: tapsla-3930.pdf plain text: tapsla-3930.txt item: #60 of 187 id: tapsla-3938 author: Pikhart, Jan title: On Non-Native Speaker E-mail Communication from a Genre Perspective date: 2016-06-25 words: 6625 flesch: 57 summary: Taking genre perspective on board, the discussion is con- fined to an analysis of the situational characteristics and selected genre features (genre markers) including genre marker deviations. In many cases the participants are socially equal, for example, friends or classmates exchanging e-mail messages. keywords: analysis; biber; characteristics; features; genre; language; linguistic; mail; markers; register; style; text cache: tapsla-3938.pdf plain text: tapsla-3938.txt item: #61 of 187 id: tapsla-3941 author: Dewaele, Jean-Marc; MacIntyre, Peter; Boudreau, Carmen; Dewaele, Livia title: Do Girls Have All the Fun? Anxiety and Enjoyment in the Foreign Language Classroom date: 2016-06-25 words: 10230 flesch: 60 summary: High levels of language anxiety are typically negatively linked to FL pro- ficiency scores, including course grades, standardized tests, and other measures (Horwitz, 2010). In C. Gkonou, M. Daubney, & J.-M. Dewaele (Eds.), New insights into language anxiety: Theory, research and educational implications. keywords: anxiety; class; dewaele; differences; emotions; female; fle; gender; girls; items; language; language learning; learners; learning; macintyre; negative; participants; research cache: tapsla-3941.pdf plain text: tapsla-3941.txt item: #62 of 187 id: tapsla-3944 author: Ożańska-Ponikwia, Katarzyna title: Code-Switching Practices among Immigrant Polish L2 Users of English date: 2016-06-25 words: 6933 flesch: 59 summary: This is later presented by Wierzbicka’s (2004) and Pavlenko’s (2004) self- reports of language switching, which also point to the social structure and the cultural norms of a multilingual setting and the role they might play in language switching in particular social or cultural contexts. Feedback also showed considerable variation between individuals, with cultural background playing an important role in the perception and use of emotional language. keywords: code; dewaele; emotions; english; language; polish; switching; use cache: tapsla-3944.pdf plain text: tapsla-3944.txt item: #63 of 187 id: tapsla-3947 author: Grymska, Beata title: New Conceptualizations of Language Aptitude - The Potential of Working Memory in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) date: 2016-06-25 words: 7011 flesch: 58 summary: John Carroll, an American psycholinguist whose contribution to the development of foreign language aptitude research cannot be denied, provided a comprehensive definition of language aptitude: “Foreign language aptitude is considered as the individual’s initial state of readiness and capacity for learning a foreign language” (Carroll, 1981, p. 86). As was indicated in the section The golden period of language aptitude research, the height of the research on lan- guage aptitude was the 1950s and 1960s, but in those days the role of memory in foreign language learning was considered to be nothing but rote learning which takes place mechanically or refers to creating associations between in- formation (Wen, 2015, p. 10). keywords: acquisition; aptitude; baddeley; language; language aptitude; language learning; learning; memory; research; working; working memory cache: tapsla-3947.pdf plain text: tapsla-3947.txt item: #64 of 187 id: tapsla-3948 author: Włosowicz, Teresa Maria title: Multilingual Processing Phenomena in Learners of Portuguese as a Third or Additional Language date: 2016-06-25 words: 8849 flesch: 61 summary: However, the distance per- ceived between languages influences not only the acquisition of vocabulary, but also processes of transfer in general, including at the grammatical level. However, as activation spreads from source language words to their equiva- lents, it also activates the corresponding concepts, which send activation back to the lemma level, and the result may be a non-target word, partly overlap- ping in meaning with the target. keywords: case; e.g.; english; form; french; influence; language; maria; multilingual; polish; portuguese; processing; sentence; structures; study; subjects; target; transfer; translation; word cache: tapsla-3948.pdf plain text: tapsla-3948.txt item: #65 of 187 id: tapsla-4718 author: Bańka, Katarzyna Elżbieta title: An Analysis of the Higher Eductional Systems of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language in Poland and China date: 2017-06-30 words: 6007 flesch: 57 summary: It is a second edition of a series of course books devoted to English- speaking Chinese students on various Chinese levels of education. Firstly, the introduction to Chinese language and the learning process in general are illustrated in order to raise the read- ers awareness of the complex tasks students/teachers had to deal with when learning/teaching this language. keywords: china; chinese; class; course; english; language; learning; poland; students; teachers; teaching; time; university cache: tapsla-4718.pdf plain text: tapsla-4718.txt item: #66 of 187 id: tapsla-4730 author: Bello-Rodzeń, Ingrid title: Multilingual Upbringing as Portrayed in the Blogosphere: On Parent-Bloggers’ Profile date: 2016-08-12 words: 8490 flesch: 53 summary: The uniqueness of this genre makes it a valuable data source for studies on multilingual language acquisition (MLA) from a parental perspective. If parents are expected to teach through example, and if they want their children to be able to function in different languages, then they should act accordingly. keywords: bloggers; blogging; blogs; children; der; families; family; language; multilingual; online; parents; participants; research; study; survey; upbringing; use cache: tapsla-4730.pdf plain text: tapsla-4730.txt item: #67 of 187 id: tapsla-4738 author: Cebrat, Grzegorz title: How to Write an American Death Notice: Some Guidelines for Novice Obituarists date: 2016-09-07 words: 8575 flesch: 55 summary: A b s t r a c t The article aims at helping non-native speakers of English to write death notices, follow- ing the requirements of American tradition of the genre. Keywords: American obituary, death notice, genre analysis Aims of the Project, Methodology, and Resources In the modern, globalized world, the issue of commemorating the dead worldwide has become significant: the rise of specialized websites, such as Legacy.com, dedicated to hosting obituaries and death notices has enabled any- one that is willing to commemorate the deceased that they loved, admired or respected, to create their own text, submit it to the online edition of a British, American, Canadian or Australian newspaper, or upload it to a memorial site. keywords: american; death; death notice; deceased; decedent; doe; family; funeral; information; life; notice; obituarists; person; place; step cache: tapsla-4738.pdf plain text: tapsla-4738.txt item: #68 of 187 id: tapsla-4739 author: Pawlak, Mirosław title: Another Look at the L2 Motivational Self System of Polish Students Majoring in English: Insights from Interview Data date: 2016-08-10 words: 8347 flesch: 52 summary: The aim was to explore over the period of two years the motivational trajectories of two Indonesian learners who manifested what Higgins (1996) has termed a promotion and prevention regulatory focus in learning English, thus epitomizing to some extent ideal and ought-to L2 selves. Keywords: motivation; theory of L2 Motivational Self System, ideal L2 self, ought-to self, English majors Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition vol. keywords: dörnyei; english; l2 self; language; learning; motivation; motivational self; participants; pawlak; self; students; study; system cache: tapsla-4739.pdf plain text: tapsla-4739.txt item: #69 of 187 id: tapsla-4784 author: Leacox, Lindsey; Meza, Margarita V.; Gregersen, Tammy S. title: When Language Anxiety and Selective Mutism Meet in the Bilingual Child: Interventions from Positive Psychology date: 2016-08-13 words: 8628 flesch: 53 summary: One Year Follow-up Marco continued with speech language therapy to address his speech sound disorder and continued limitations in verbal communication outside of the home setting. Conclusion Parallels can be drawn between the inverse relationship that applied lin- guists have found between language anxiety and WTC in an L2 and the social anxiety that often times serves as the catalyst for a child’s SM. keywords: anxiety; children; clinician; communication; emotions; language; laughter; marco; music; mutism; pet; school; session; social; speech; therapy cache: tapsla-4784.pdf plain text: tapsla-4784.txt item: #70 of 187 id: tapsla-4819 author: Szymańska-Tworek, Aleksandra Aniela title: Teaching Materials and the ELF Methodology – Attitudes of Pre-Service Teachers date: 2016-08-13 words: 7142 flesch: 53 summary: Secondly, providing schoolchildren with multiple examples of inner, outer, and expanding circle English is likely to contribute to the development of cross-cultural understanding and tolerance. The English language classrooms have traditionally imposed one or two varieties on learners: British English and/or American English. keywords: classroom; elf; english; language; learners; materials; students; teachers; teaching; varieties cache: tapsla-4819.pdf plain text: tapsla-4819.txt item: #71 of 187 id: tapsla-4865 author: Turula, Anna title: Between New Technologies and New Paradigms in Academic Education. A Non-Reductionist Approach date: 2016-12-30 words: 5805 flesch: 47 summary: learning technologies: badges, learning analytics, MOOCs, mobile and online learning, open educational resources, PLEs (= Personal Learning Environments), Virtual and Remote Laboratories, etc.; 5. social media technologies: Collaborative Environments, collective intelli- gence, crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, and others; 6. visualization technologies: 3D printing, augmented reality, information visualization and visual data analysis, volumetric, and holographic displays; 7. enabling technologies: affective computing, machine learning and many, many others. However, in examining the relation between new technologies and differ- ent manifestations of social life (including language education), it is easy to get trapped in one of the available deterministic viewpoints. keywords: digital; education; learning; media; new; online; reductionist; teacher; technologies; technology; tools; turula; uses cache: tapsla-4865.pdf plain text: tapsla-4865.txt item: #72 of 187 id: tapsla-4908 author: Lipińska, Dorota title: The influence of age and L2 on third language acquisition in a corporate environment date: 2017-06-30 words: 8598 flesch: 64 summary: Most researchers focus on L2 pronun- ciation and agree that language learners who start to be exposed to a target language after the age puberty will not ever “pass themselves off as native speakers phonologically” (Scovel, 1988, p. 185). There were numerous studies on language learners who achieved very high levels of L2 proficiency in spite of starting learning their target language at older age (e.g., Birdsong, 1992; Singleton & Lengyel, 1995; Bongaerts et al., 2000; Bongaerts, 2003; Muñoz & Singleton, 2007; Kinsella, 2009; Flege & MacKay, 2011). keywords: acquisition; company; der; english; factor; german; language; language acquisition; learners; learning; results; sla; study; subjects; transfer cache: tapsla-4908.pdf plain text: tapsla-4908.txt item: #73 of 187 id: tapsla-4914 author: Wlosowicz, Teresa Maria title: English Language Attrition in Teachers: Questions of Language Proficiency, Language Maintenance and Language Attitudes date: 2017-06-30 words: 11468 flesch: 59 summary: Keywords: language attrition, advanced users of English as L2, English language teachers, language maintenance Introduction The purpose of the study has been an investigation of language attrition in Polish teachers of English, their attitudes towards linguistic correctness, and their strategies of language maintenance. keywords: attrition; english; english language; example; language; language attrition; participants; structures; study; teachers; use; vocabulary; words cache: tapsla-4914.pdf plain text: tapsla-4914.txt item: #74 of 187 id: tapsla-4961 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Preface date: 2016-10-27 words: 905 flesch: 40 summary: Preface We resolved to start publishing this journal thinking that despite the fact that Poland has a strong position in second language acquisition research and that quite a large number of monographic publications in this area come out every year—often published abroad with Multilingual Matters or Springer, among others—yet there is no academic research-oriented journal devoted to the theory and practice of SLA which would be widely available to Polish academia. The present issue consists of articles in various areas of SLA and also research in multilingualism, supplemented with two papers strictly related to aspects of foreign language teaching. keywords: journal; language; research cache: tapsla-4961.pdf plain text: tapsla-4961.txt item: #75 of 187 id: tapsla-5023 author: Gajek, Elżbieta title: ICT as material culture in CALL date: 2017-06-30 words: 5205 flesch: 55 summary: Keywords: Computer-Assisted Language Learning, material culture, language teachers, ICT Introduction Information and Communication Technologies shape many areas of social life and culture. In the case of language teachers the readiness to use ICT depends on the level of their own individual and institutional experience. keywords: artifacts; communication; computer; culture; ict; internet; language; learners; learning; material; software; teachers; technology; use; users cache: tapsla-5023.pdf plain text: tapsla-5023.txt item: #76 of 187 id: tapsla-5033 author: Saleh, Salama Embark title: Some Libya EFL University Students’ Attitudes towards Using Authentic Materials for Reading Classes Abstract This study investigates the attitudes of 100 Libyan English foreign language (EFL) university students towards using authentic materials in the l date: 2017-06-30 words: 4631 flesch: 45 summary: The con- tent of these textbooks focuses on communication skills and is learner-centered as well as it includes a variety of authentic language materials, especially for reading classes (Phillips et al., 2002). Advantages of Authentic Materials Using authentic language materials for language learning in the foreign language classroom has many advantages. keywords: attitudes; language; learners; learning; materials; skills; students; target; university cache: tapsla-5033.pdf plain text: tapsla-5033.txt item: #77 of 187 id: tapsla-5090 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Title page and contents date: 2016-12-30 words: 304 flesch: 53 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/ University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/ State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition Vol. 2 (2) 2016 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego • Katowice 2016 Editors-in-Chief Danuta Gabryś-Barker University of Silesia Adam Wojtaszek University of Silesia Language Editor David Schauffler University of Silesia Editorial Board Janusz Arabski (University of Silesia, Katowice/ Vistula University, Warsaw) keywords: katowice; silesia; university cache: tapsla-5090.pdf plain text: tapsla-5090.txt item: #78 of 187 id: tapsla-5091 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Colophon date: 2016-12-30 words: 91 flesch: 73 summary: Cover photo: “big_blue” by Max Iter (Retrieved from www.f lickr.com) Copy editing: Gabriela Marszołek Proofreading: Joanna Zwierzyńska Typesetting: Edward Wilk Copyright © 2016 by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego All rights reserved ISSN 2450-5455 (print edition) ISSN 2451-2125 (digital edition) Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ul. keywords: edition cache: tapsla-5091.pdf plain text: tapsla-5091.txt item: #79 of 187 id: tapsla-5093 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Title page and contents date: 2016-06-26 words: 303 flesch: 57 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition Vol. 2 (1) 2016 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego • Katowice 2016 Editors-in-Chief Danuta Gabryś-Barker University of Silesia Adam Wojtaszek University of Silesia Language Editor David Schauffler University of Silesia Editorial Board Janusz Arabski (University of Silesia, Katowice/Vistula University, Warsaw) keywords: language; silesia; university cache: tapsla-5093.pdf plain text: tapsla-5093.txt item: #80 of 187 id: tapsla-5095 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Title page and contents date: 2018-12-14 words: 386 flesch: 14 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) Gessica de Angelis (Trinity College, Dublin) Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) keywords: katowice; silesia; university cache: tapsla-5095.pdf plain text: tapsla-5095.txt item: #81 of 187 id: tapsla-5101 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam title: Preface date: 2016-06-26 words: 514 flesch: 41 summary: Papers falling within the leading theme of each conference are usually edited and published in the form of a monograph, but there are also many studies presented in research areas not directly related to the main theme. Preface We resolved to start publishing this journal thinking that despite the fact that Poland has a strong position in second language acquisition research and that quite a large number of monographic publications in this area come out every year—often published abroad with Multilingual Matters or Springer, among others—yet there is no academic research-oriented journal devoted to the theory and practice of SLA which would be widely available to Polish academia. keywords: journal; research cache: tapsla-5101.pdf plain text: tapsla-5101.txt item: #82 of 187 id: tapsla-5106 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Colophon date: 2016-06-26 words: 98 flesch: 69 summary: Cover photo: “big_blue” by Max Iter (Retrieved from www.flickr.com) Copy editor: Gabriela Marszołek Technical editor: Barbara Arenhövel Proofreader: Luiza Przełożny Typesetting: Edward Wilk Copyright © 2016 by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego All rights reserved ISSN 2450-5455 (print edition) ISSN 2451-2125 (digital edition) Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ul. keywords: edition cache: tapsla-5106.pdf plain text: tapsla-5106.txt item: #83 of 187 id: tapsla-5107 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Title page and contents date: 2017-02-04 words: 304 flesch: 50 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) Gessica de Angelis (Trinity College, Dublin) Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) keywords: katowice; silesia; university cache: tapsla-5107.pdf plain text: tapsla-5107.txt item: #84 of 187 id: tapsla-5108 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam title: Preface date: 2017-02-04 words: 520 flesch: 43 summary: We would like to invite Polish and foreign academics to share their scholarly research with us by submitting their work to the Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition journal pub- lished by the prestigious Polish academic publisher, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego (University of Silesia Press). Preface We resolved to start publishing this journal thinking that despite the fact that Poland has a strong position in second language acquisition research and that quite a large number of monographic publications in this area come out every year—often published abroad with Multilingual Matters or Springer, among others—there is yet no academic research-oriented journal devoted to the theory and practice of SLA which would be widely available to Polish academia. keywords: journal; language cache: tapsla-5108.pdf plain text: tapsla-5108.txt item: #85 of 187 id: tapsla-5109 author: Latkowska, Jolanta title: How Relevant Is the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to Contemporary Psycholinguistic Research? date: 2015-12-01 words: 8424 flesch: 63 summary: The second issue addressed by the paper is whether linguistic categories provide an accurate window on cognition, as was suggested by Whorf and in some of the more recent debates. K e y w o r d s: linguistic relativity, Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, cognition, language, correlational study Introduction To the psycholinguist and second language acquisition researcher, the Sapir- Whorf Hypothesis, also known as the linguistic relativity principle, indicates the possibility of a causal relationship between language and thought. keywords: = −; hypothesis; language; linguistic; n =; p =; research; sapir; test; thinking; thought; whorf; ρ = cache: tapsla-5109.pdf plain text: tapsla-5109.txt item: #86 of 187 id: tapsla-5110 author: Aronin, Larissa; Politis, Vasilis title: Multilingualism as an Edge date: 2015-12-01 words: 10145 flesch: 53 summary: In the process of acquisition of their target language, L3 or Ln, multilin- guals rely not only on their native and strongest language (L1), but also on other languages at their disposal. The transitional zone itself, the ‘transitional entity’, appears in the form of new languages and speakers of these languages. keywords: acquisition; areas; aronin; bilingual; borders; boundaries; edge; eds; english; language; linguistics; metaphor; multilingualism; new; research; world cache: tapsla-5110.pdf plain text: tapsla-5110.txt item: #87 of 187 id: tapsla-5111 author: Owczarek, Dorota title: Advanced FL Students’ Self-perception of their Language Identity date: 2015-12-01 words: 5922 flesch: 60 summary: K e y w o r d s: language identity, bi/multilingualism, language competence In the studied group the impact of language studies on one’s personality was recorded. keywords: context; english; identity; język; language; learning; multilingual; pavlenko; respondents; self; students; study; use cache: tapsla-5111.pdf plain text: tapsla-5111.txt item: #88 of 187 id: tapsla-5112 author: Yu, Xinyue Cécilia title: The Acquisition at the Interface of Ditransitive Constructions in Mandarin Chinese by French Adult Learners date: 2015-12-01 words: 11320 flesch: 66 summary: Learners of this group make correct and significant distinction between the two types of verb in both preverbal GEI construction and double object construction. Implications of asymmetries in double object constructions. keywords: acquisition; chinese; construction; event; gei; learners; n p; object; p -a; p p; possession; verbs cache: tapsla-5112.pdf plain text: tapsla-5112.txt item: #89 of 187 id: tapsla-5113 author: Ananth, Priya; Kamiya, Masaaki title: Effect of Prosody on Disambiguation: A Case of Universal Quantifier and Negation date: 2015-12-01 words: 10185 flesch: 60 summary: It has been argued, in previous literature, that native adult speakers of English as well as Japanese interpret such sentences both on their surface (total negation) and inverse scope (partial negation) read- ings in the presence of prosodic cues. Due to the interaction of these two, the sentence can have either a total negation or partial negation reading as shown above. keywords: disambiguation; english; japanese; minna; negation; prosody; relevance; scope; sentences; speakers; students; study; test; total cache: tapsla-5113.pdf plain text: tapsla-5113.txt item: #90 of 187 id: tapsla-5114 author: Ünel, Arzu; Mirioğlu, Meryem title: Syntactical Modifications in Teacher Talk of Native and Non-Native Speakers in EFL Classrooms date: 2015-12-01 words: 6009 flesch: 58 summary: Previous Studies on Syntactic Features of Teacher Talk Besides the lexical, phonological, and discourse features of teacher talk, syntactic features also play an important role in understanding the modifications in teacher talk. Simplification and elaboration in foreign language teacher talk and its source. keywords: clauses; compound; language; learners; level; modifications; nnss; sentences; teacher talk cache: tapsla-5114.pdf plain text: tapsla-5114.txt item: #91 of 187 id: tapsla-5115 author: Gregersen, Tammy title: Aligning Who I Am with What I Do: Pursuing Language Teacher Authenticity date: 2015-12-01 words: 6678 flesch: 50 summary: A third theory that taps into language teacher identity as a precursor to authenticity is the notion of teacher identity as a result of the co-creation of “image-text.” This study explores the dynamic, interactive relationship between teacher identity and authenticity. keywords: authenticity; education; identity; individual; language; learners; learning; self; teacher; teacher identity; teaching; theory cache: tapsla-5115.pdf plain text: tapsla-5115.txt item: #92 of 187 id: tapsla-5116 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Colophon date: 2015-12-01 words: 98 flesch: 69 summary: Cover photo: “big_blue” by Max Iter (Retrieved from www.flickr.com) Copy editor: Gabriela Marszołek Technical editor: Barbara Arenhövel Proofreader: Luiza Przełożny Typesetting: Edward Wilk Copyright © 2015 by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego All rights reserved ISSN 2450-5455 (print edition) Offset paper grade, 90 g. Price 20 zł (+ VAT) Printing and binding EXPOL, P. Rybiński, J. Dąbek, Spółka Jawna ul. keywords: sheets cache: tapsla-5116.pdf plain text: tapsla-5116.txt item: #93 of 187 id: tapsla-5136 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Preface date: 2017-06-30 words: 798 flesch: 33 summary: The author demonstrates their role in teaching foreign languages and aims to find relations between language teachers’ access to digital devices, their perceptions of the usefulness of ICT in foreign language learning and teaching, and the actual use of digital materials in their own language teaching, and be- yond the classroom for non-professional uses. The next text introduces the theme of authentic foreign language teaching materials as Salama Embark in “Some Libya EFL University Students’ Attitudes towards Using Authentic Materials for Reading Classes” investigates the attitudes of Libyan English foreign language (EFL) university students towards authentic materials used in FL instruction. keywords: language; materials; teaching cache: tapsla-5136.pdf plain text: tapsla-5136.txt item: #94 of 187 id: tapsla-5184 author: Cieślicka, Ewa Grażyna; Rojczyk, Arkadiusz title: Self-reported vs. self-rated pronunciation in a non-native language date: 2017-12-12 words: 6570 flesch: 54 summary: Together with the results for pronunciation rating, we also report results for other aspects of speech, such as articulation and fluency. Quantitative analysis Rated pronunciation. keywords: fluency; group; language; proficiency; pronunciation; recording; self; speakers; speech; students cache: tapsla-5184.pdf plain text: tapsla-5184.txt item: #95 of 187 id: tapsla-5392 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Colophon date: 2017-06-30 words: 94 flesch: 76 summary: Cover photo: “big_blue” by Max Iter (Retrieved from www.f lickr.com) Copy editing: Gabriela Marszołek Proofreading: Joanna Zwierzyńska Typesetting: Edward Wilk Copyright © 2017 by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ISSN 2451-2125 (digital edition) Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ul. keywords: edition cache: tapsla-5392.pdf plain text: tapsla-5392.txt item: #96 of 187 id: tapsla-5396 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Title page and contents date: 2017-06-30 words: 306 flesch: 37 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition Vol. 3 (1) 2017 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego • Katowice 2017 Editors-in-Chief Danuta Gabryś-Barker University of Silesia Adam Wojtaszek University of Silesia Language Editor David Schauffler University of Silesia Editorial Board Janusz Arabski (University of Silesia, Katowice/Vistula University, Warsaw) keywords: language; silesia; university cache: tapsla-5396.pdf plain text: tapsla-5396.txt item: #97 of 187 id: tapsla-5575 author: Szcześniak, Konrad title: Benefits of L1-L3 Similarities. The Case of the Dative Case date: 2017-12-10 words: 8376 flesch: 64 summary: The similarities between Polish and Portuguese, relative to English are summed up in Table 2. Table 2 Presence or absence of three functions of the dative in Portuguese, Polish, and English Dative of possession Ethical dative Dative of opinion Portuguese + For example, those verbs that alternate between the dative and prepositional frames are sensitive to the nature of the entity candidate for dative case marking. keywords: acquisition; case; construction; dative; english; language; learners; polish; portuguese; possession; priming; que; similarities; study; subjects; transfer; use; uses cache: tapsla-5575.pdf plain text: tapsla-5575.txt item: #98 of 187 id: tapsla-5591 author: Bąk-Średnicka, Anna title: Preservice teachers’ attitudes related to family involvement in light of their school placement experience date: 2017-12-10 words: 8052 flesch: 48 summary: Quality mentoring for student teachers. This may be partly due to the fact that school placements specific requirements in Module 2 referring to 30 hours of peda- gogical practice and Module 3 referring to 120 hours of didactic practice do not assume that trainee teachers have any (in)direct contacts with parents during their practicum (Journal of Laws, 2012). keywords: contacts; education; family; home; involvement; parents; practice; relationship; respondents; school; service; teachers; teaching; training; type; university cache: tapsla-5591.pdf plain text: tapsla-5591.txt item: #99 of 187 id: tapsla-5592 author: Aronin, Larissa title: Book review: Kurt Braunmuller & Christoph Gabriel (eds.) (2012) Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies date: 2017-12-10 words: 3282 flesch: 41 summary: The ten articles of Part Two “How Language Changes in Multilingual Settings: Contact-Induced Language Variation and Change,” convey a broad range of issues on variation and changes in morphology, phonology, structure of language varieties in contact, using the data from old languages such as Old Swedish, Middle High German, and Medieval Latin, and contemporary lan- guage varieties: Faroese, Danish, Occitan, French, Italian, Spanish and Polish, to name only some. The different results on vowel and voiced sibilant production in Catalan obtained in two areas of Barcelona indicate that a phonological change in the situation of language contact can be caused by a combination of internal and external linguistic factors. keywords: acquisition; bilingual; children; french; german; language; multilingualism; research cache: tapsla-5592.pdf plain text: tapsla-5592.txt item: #100 of 187 id: tapsla-5788 author: Piechurska-Kuciel, Ewa title: The Role of Social Support Systems in Adolescent Foreign Language Learning date: 2017-12-10 words: 7943 flesch: 52 summary: In adolescents the main groups of social support are their family, peers, and teachers with whom they interact most frequently. Consequently, it is believed that in the situation of stress caused by the necessity to learn a foreign language (FL) as a compulsory subject, social support can be viewed as an important factor that may positively inf luence learners’ academic achievement, exposing the role of the perceived availability of significant others’ help in achieving FL success. keywords: adolescents; journal; language; learners; learning; parents; peer; piechurska; psychology; role; school; stress; students; support; teachers cache: tapsla-5788.pdf plain text: tapsla-5788.txt item: #101 of 187 id: tapsla-5909 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Title page and contents date: 2017-12-10 words: 352 flesch: 30 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) Gessica de Angelis (Trinity College, Dublin) Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) keywords: katowice; silesia; university cache: tapsla-5909.pdf plain text: tapsla-5909.txt item: #102 of 187 id: tapsla-5911 author: Editors, TAPSLA title: Colophon date: 2017-12-10 words: 94 flesch: 76 summary: Cover photo: “big_blue” by Max Iter (Retrieved from www.f lickr.com) Copy editing: Gabriela Marszołek Proofreading: Joanna Zwierzyńska Typesetting: Edward Wilk Copyright © 2017 by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ISSN 2451-2125 (digital edition) Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ul. keywords: edition cache: tapsla-5911.pdf plain text: tapsla-5911.txt item: #103 of 187 id: tapsla-6106 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta title: Book review: Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak and Mirosaw Pawlak (2017) Willingness to Communicate in Instructed Second Language Acquisition. Combining a Macro- and Micro-Perspective date: 2017-12-12 words: 3978 flesch: 45 summary: The readers will find here an example of a large-scale study in the tradition of WTC research, but at the same time, the study introduces a contextualization and adaptation to the specific domain of a Polish advanced learner of English. Chapter Eight “Findings of the Study” reports in a very detailed manner on the observed dynamics of WTC in each of the classes, complemented by participants’ perceptions as to the factors having an impact on individual WTC. keywords: authors; chapter; language; research; studies; study; wtc cache: tapsla-6106.pdf plain text: tapsla-6106.txt item: #104 of 187 id: tapsla-6108 author: Szupica-Pyrzanowska, Małgorzata; Malesa, Katarzyna title: Are they part of the equation? – foreign language teachers versus language attrition A diagnostic study date: 2017-12-12 words: 7404 flesch: 54 summary: Finally, in Question 7 we narrowed down the scope of our inquiry and asked specifically whether foreign language teacher language competence could be compromised. Likewise, in our definition of attrition we assume the loss of the linguistic material that was previously possessed by language teachers and we argue for the absence of the linguistic knowledge that was once present, tangible and can no longer compete with the other, more frequently used linguistic system, in this case the L1. keywords: attrition; competence; english; knowledge; language; language attrition; language teachers; learners; loss; participants; skills; students; study; teachers; teaching cache: tapsla-6108.pdf plain text: tapsla-6108.txt item: #105 of 187 id: tapsla-6117 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam title: Preface date: 2017-08-23 words: 949 flesch: 45 summary: A Diagnostic Study,” touches upon the problem of language competence deterioration in the case of foreign language teachers. The author reports on an empirical study conducted among pre-service EFL teachers on the effects of their collaboration with their learners’ parents and its visible effectiveness and impact on their learners’ success. keywords: issue; language; teachers cache: tapsla-6117.pdf plain text: tapsla-6117.txt item: #106 of 187 id: tapsla-6130 author: Masoń-Budzyń, Joanna title: New School, the Same Old Rut? Action Research of Unsuccessful First-Year Students in a High School date: 2018-03-07 words: 8620 flesch: 60 summary: It is the English language version of the AMTB to be used among high school students who study English as a foreign language. Theoretically, instrumental motivation connected with career planning should not be very relevant for high school students as most of them do not think about the distant future (Clement et al., 1994, cited in Dörnyei, 1994). keywords: action; angielskiego; anxiety; attitude; classroom; dissatisfaction; english; exam; group; language; learning; mean; motivation; questionnaire; research; results; school; students; teachers cache: tapsla-6130.pdf plain text: tapsla-6130.txt item: #107 of 187 id: tapsla-6141 author: Szyszka, Magdalena title: Pronunciation learning environment: EFL students’ cognitions of in-class and out-of-class factors affecting pronunciation acquisition date: 2018-03-07 words: 8059 flesch: 51 summary: As viewed by the participants, the higher the level of teacher pronunciation, the more the teacher exposes learners to the target language in the classroom. Also, in L2 pronunciation learning the EFL students report the following factors as moderately important: L2 teachers’ pronunciation, in-class L2 use, pronunciation error correction, and in-class and out-of-class exposure to multimedia that provide access to a broad range of L2 pronunciation varieties. keywords: acquisition; class; classroom; efl; english; environment; factors; language; learners; learning; primary; pronunciation; pronunciation learning; school; school teachers; teachers cache: tapsla-6141.pdf plain text: tapsla-6141.txt item: #108 of 187 id: tapsla-6153 author: Pinto, Jorge title: Immersion learning activities: developing communicative tasks in the community date: 2018-03-07 words: 8660 flesch: 56 summary: Task-based language teaching (TBLT) provides language learning in real contexts of communication (Nunan, 2004). As Hyland (2004, p. 180) says, “language learning is not limited to the classroom, but can take place at any time and in any place, including the home and the community.” Out-of-class learning has been defined as any kind of learning that takes place outside the classroom and involves self-instruction (where learners delib- erately plan to improve the target language and search for resources to help them do this), naturalistic learning (where students learn mainly unintention- ally through communication and interaction with the target language group) or self-directed naturalistic learning (where learners create or seek out a language learning situation, but may not focus directly on learning the language while they are in that situation) (Benson, 2001, p. 62). keywords: activities; agree; class; classroom; disagree; immersion; language; language learning; learning; portuguese; students; tasks; teachers; teaching; use cache: tapsla-6153.pdf plain text: tapsla-6153.txt item: #109 of 187 id: tapsla-6154 author: Rokita-Jaśkow, Joanna title: Social constraints of aspirations for second language achievement date: 2018-03-07 words: 7809 flesch: 56 summary: Majoribanks, 2003; Farmer, 1985; Lewowicki, 1987) that individuals of high educational aspirations tend to achieve higher success in education, which in turn leads to better-paid occupational careers. It is unclear as to what is first in this cause-effect relation- ship between aspirations and achievement: is it high educational aspirations which boost higher achievement, or is it high achievement caused by parental educational aspirations which boost high school achievement, where the feel- ing of success contributes further to the growth of children’s own educational aspirations? keywords: achievement; aspirations; education; english; goals; language; learning; level; school; self; social; students; study cache: tapsla-6154.pdf plain text: tapsla-6154.txt item: #110 of 187 id: tapsla-6155 author: Lipińska, Dorota title: Rethink your old teaching methods: designing a pronunciation course for young teenagers date: 2018-03-07 words: 9219 flesch: 60 summary: What is more, Porzuczek and Rojczyk (2010) remarked that the latest studies (e.g., Burns et al., 2007; Hoonhorst et al., 2009; Rivera- Gaxiola et al., 2005) suggest that the contrary to the Critical Period Hypothesis and its assumptions, human capability of learning new, foreign sounds is not limited, impaired or lost after the age of puberty and that language learners are able to master L2 pronunciation at an advanced level even as adults. On the other hand, language learners relatively often present the opinion that they do not really need correct pronunciation in their target language as they are not going to communicate with any native speakers of this language, but only with other non-native users because, for example, English is an interna- tional language. keywords: cambridge; eds; english; klimczak; language; learners; learning; lipińska; phonetics; pronunciation; speech; teachers; teaching; teenagers; training cache: tapsla-6155.pdf plain text: tapsla-6155.txt item: #111 of 187 id: tapsla-6167 author: Singleton, David; Pfenninger, Simone E. title: L2 proficiency as a function of cultural identity in interlingual couples date: 2018-03-07 words: 6874 flesch: 58 summary: Nevertheless, his local high school did whet his appetite for contact with other languages and cultures by exposing him to encounters with visiting foreign exchange students. In terms of language practices, the couple speak English exclusively, as Caitlyn’s German proficiency is as yet insufficient in order to have a spontaneous con- versation. keywords: caitlyn; couples; daniela; english; german; identity; language; native; relationship; singleton; stefan cache: tapsla-6167.pdf plain text: tapsla-6167.txt item: #112 of 187 id: tapsla-6216 author: Kostoulas, Achilleas I.; Mercer, Sarah title: Reflections on complexity: TESOL researchers reflect on their experiences date: 2018-12-14 words: 7371 flesch: 56 summary: The state of complexity theory in the field is now very different from what it was when Larsen-Freeman and Cameron published their seminal 2008 monograph, as the scope of its use in the study of language, language acquisi- tion, and language education is broadening, and a community of researchers is emerging, who may differ in their research agendas and priorities, but who share the common epistemological perspective and the common discourse of complexity. How did you become interested in complexity theories? 2. keywords: achilleas; cdst; complexity; kostoulas; language; learning; mercer; research; researchers; sarah; systems; tesol; theory cache: tapsla-6216.pdf plain text: tapsla-6216.txt item: #113 of 187 id: tapsla-6220 author: Webb, Beata; Vallero, Alicia title: DEVELOPING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS FOR BLENDED AND ONLINE LEARNING date: 2018-12-14 words: 5686 flesch: 48 summary: Table 2 details the topics of students TEVALs and it demonstrates that teacher’s teaching is the most important aspect of student positive learning experience (Coe, Aloisi, Higgins, & Major, 2014). It is, however, crucial to undertake further research in order to explore teachers’ understanding of the four elements of the learning environment and the ways they can support student positive learning experience in developing blended and online settings. keywords: bond; environment; holodeck; learning; online; programs; students; teaching; tesol; thornburg; university cache: tapsla-6220.pdf plain text: tapsla-6220.txt item: #114 of 187 id: tapsla-6295 author: Budzińska, Katarzyna title: Positive institutions: Case study date: 2018-12-14 words: 8466 flesch: 57 summary: Keywords: SLA; positive psychology; wellbeing; positive institutions; further education Introduction Positive institutions have been defined as “enabling institutions,” “organi- zational structures that enable success and promote positive language learn- ing environments,” as well as “institutions that enable people to flourish” (MacIntyre & Mercer, 2014, pp. 154, 165). Investigating positive institutions reflects the current interest of second language acquisition (SLA) researchers Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition vol. keywords: education; institution; language; learners; learning; positive; psychology; school; state; students; study; teachers; teaching cache: tapsla-6295.pdf plain text: tapsla-6295.txt item: #115 of 187 id: tapsla-6435 author: Michońska-Stadnik, Anna title: Classroom learning environment and its influence on selected aspects of foreign language attainment. Insights from students. date: 2018-12-14 words: 6623 flesch: 48 summary: Advantages and Disadvantages of the Classroom Learning Environment in Foreign Language Attainment The opinions in research reports on classroom language learning, instructed language learning or formal instruction related to successful foreign or second language development are diverse. Students generally seemed to appreciate the influence of the classroom environ- ment on their language development, attitude to language learning and attitude to the target language culture and community. keywords: classroom; classroom environment; environment; group; influence; language; learning; learning environment; opinions; school; students; teacher cache: tapsla-6435.pdf plain text: tapsla-6435.txt item: #116 of 187 id: tapsla-6443 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Preface date: 2018-03-13 words: 793 flesch: 39 summary: If a common denominator were to be noted for the papers included in the present issue, the dimension of various learning environments would be a good candidate. Especially today, when journal publications are seen as the most valued and highly recognized evidence of academic excellence, the perspectives for its rapid and successful development seem to be very promising. keywords: learning; pronunciation cache: tapsla-6443.pdf plain text: tapsla-6443.txt item: #117 of 187 id: tapsla-7008 author: Aldekoa, Ana title: Gure Ikastola en tres languages: the teaching and learning of trilingual oral expository skills by means of a didactic sequence date: 2018-12-14 words: 8440 flesch: 56 summary: Keywords: Basque, English, Spanish, trilingual oral expository skills, trilingual didactic se- quence, language alternation and integration, interlinguistic transfer, multilingual competence Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition vol. 4 (2), 2018, pp. Ana Aldekoa82 As we have previously seen in the explanation of the aims of the didactic sequence, the way language alternation occurs in this project has been the outcome of a thoroughly thought-through process and it serves the purpose of giving each language the exposure that this specific sociolinguistic context requires (Idiazabal et al., 2015). keywords: audience; basque; english; groups; initial; languages; school; section; sequence; spanish; students; texts; topic; transfer; use cache: tapsla-7008.pdf plain text: tapsla-7008.txt item: #118 of 187 id: tapsla-7011 author: Mercer, Sarah; MacIntyre, Peter; Gregersen, Tammy; Talbot, Kyle title: Positive Language Education: Combining Positive Education and Language Education date: 2018-12-14 words: 8813 flesch: 52 summary: Specifically, positive wellbeing is associated with an impressive range of psychological, social, and academic benefits (Gilman & Huebner, 2006; Quinn & Duckworth, 2007; Verkuyten & Thijs, 2002). In other words, wellbeing and positive psychology skills and traits are not only use- ful for people’s lives outside of work but also in work and school (White, 2011). keywords: education; health; journal; language; language education; learning; life; macintyre; positive; psychology; seligman; skills; teachers; wellbeing cache: tapsla-7011.pdf plain text: tapsla-7011.txt item: #119 of 187 id: tapsla-7109 author: Matusz, Łukasz; Rakowska, Anna Maria title: Self-reported Difficulties in Learning English as a Second Language for Third-age Students in Poland date: 2019-06-30 words: 6903 flesch: 59 summary: For the reasons described above, another important issue in teaching third- age students is the awareness of their strengths and weaknesses in the process Łukasz Matusz, Anna Maria Rakowska116 of learning English. It is hoped that the present study will constitute a minor contribution to the study of learning needs and expectations of senior students in Poland. keywords: difficulties; english; group; language; learners; learning; participants; problems; question; respondents; self; students; teacher cache: tapsla-7109.pdf plain text: tapsla-7109.txt item: #120 of 187 id: tapsla-7146 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta title: Katarzyna Ożańska-Ponikwia (2018). Personality and Emotional Intelligence in Second Language Learning. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing - by Danuta Gabryś-Barker date: 2018-12-14 words: 2357 flesch: 42 summary: According to Ożańska-Ponikwia, the book has two objectives: to give an overview of second language acquisition (SLA) studies fo- cusing on personality traits and emotional intelligence and to present the results of an empirical study measuring the influence of personality traits and emotional intelligence on learning a second language in the context of formal instruction. In the concluding part of the analysis, the author states that “the relationship between personality traits and SLA is quite complex and nuanced” (p. 79). keywords: author; intelligence; language; learning; personality cache: tapsla-7146.pdf plain text: tapsla-7146.txt item: #121 of 187 id: tapsla-7180 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta title: Preface date: 2018-12-14 words: 1298 flesch: 38 summary: As the author puts it, it is an institution “enabling success and promoting positive language learning environments or student well-being.” The article is theoretical, but it makes a very strong claim for an empirically-based model of language education in different educational contexts. keywords: article; journal; language; learning cache: tapsla-7180.pdf plain text: tapsla-7180.txt item: #122 of 187 id: tapsla-7186 author: Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Anna Borowska (2017). Avialinguistics. The Study of Language for Aviation Purposes. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang - by Adam Wojtaszek date: 2018-12-14 words: 2828 flesch: 38 summary: Furthermore, it has to be mentioned that the relationship between Aviation Discourse and Aeronautical Discourse outlined by Borowska, where the latter term is seen both as a lower rank, more specific, but at the same time exclusive from the former, is far from clear, especially that Aeronautical English is presented on page 67 as an inclusive variant of Aviation English. The first chapter (pp. 25–43), in turn, is devoted to the historical perspective and delineating the origins of the specialized language known today as Aviation English. keywords: aeronautical; author; aviation; communication; english; language cache: tapsla-7186.pdf plain text: tapsla-7186.txt item: #123 of 187 id: tapsla-7322 author: Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Colophon date: 2018-12-14 words: 99 flesch: 66 summary: Magdalena Podraza Copyright © 2018 by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego All rights reserved ISSN 2450-5455 (print edition) ISSN 2451-2125 (digital edition) Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ul. keywords: edition cache: tapsla-7322.pdf plain text: tapsla-7322.txt item: #124 of 187 id: tapsla-7359 author: Petrič, Teodor title: Ratings of Affective and Non-Affective Aspects of German Idioms in Second Language Processing date: 2019-06-30 words: 12112 flesch: 46 summary: Table 7 Mean values of variables accounting for Ambiguity (as determined by Citron et al., 2015) Variable Slovene participants German participants Ambiguous Unambiguous Ambiguous Unambiguous Emotional valence –0.21 –0.17 –0.62 –0.56 Emotional valence2 1.03 1.34 1.86 2.29 Emotional arousal 3.92 4.07 3.70 3.92 Familiarity 4.39 4.40 4.75 4.78 Semantic transparency 3.88 3.93 4.06 4.19 Figurativeness 4.64 4.79 4.66 4.73 Concreteness 3.80 3.62 3.63 3.08 Confidence 5.06 5.07 6.11 6.09 Idiomatic Knowledge ... ... 89.61 91.91 Length in letters 23 23 23 23 Length in words 5 4 5 4 Number of idioms 293 326 293 326 Both participant groups rated ambiguous German idioms as less valenced (i.e., valence squared, independently of whether positively or negatively) and less stimulating, but as more concrete than the unambiguous idioms. 11–42 10.31261/TAPSLA.2019.05.02 Teodor Petrič University of Maribor, Slovenia Ratings of Affective and Non-Affective Aspects of German Idioms in keywords: arousal; citron; citron et; correlations; data; et al; familiarity; figurativeness; german; idioms; language; meaning; participants; second; slovene; study; transparency; valence cache: tapsla-7359.pdf plain text: tapsla-7359.txt item: #125 of 187 id: tapsla-7370 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta title: Hadrian Lankiewicz, Teacher Language Awareness: A Collaborative Inquiry Based on Languaging. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2015, ISBN 978-7865-624-1, 368 pages date: 2019-06-30 words: 1596 flesch: 47 summary: Chapter 3 of the book is devoted to the discussion of language awareness as a concept and teacher language awareness in particular, focusing on the need for developing teacher critical awareness. The Author rightly assumes the need to develop critical teacher language awareness, which should already have been initiated at the pre-service stage, that is, during teacher training at the university or college. keywords: author; awareness; language; teacher cache: tapsla-7370.pdf plain text: tapsla-7370.txt item: #126 of 187 id: tapsla-7404 author: Ożańska-Ponikwia, Katarzyna; Carlet, Angélica; Pujol Valls, Maria title: L2 Gain or L2 Pain? A Comparative Case Study of the Target Language Development among the Erasmus+ Mobility Students and At-Home Students date: 2019-06-30 words: 8462 flesch: 53 summary: Since these results are inconclusive, other aspects that could have an impact on L2 proficiency development while abroad were analyzed. A new take on individual differences in L2 proficiency gain during study abroad System, 66, 39–55. keywords: development; gainers; group; home; l2 proficiency; language; personality; proficiency; speaking; stay; students; study; test cache: tapsla-7404.pdf plain text: tapsla-7404.txt item: #127 of 187 id: tapsla-7416 author: Warchał, Krystyna title: Humour in Professional Academic Writing date: 2019-06-30 words: 5030 flesch: 53 summary: Examples (10) and (11) demonstrate their effectiveness in published professional academic texts. Elements of Humour in Published Research Genres The aim of this section is to discuss elements of non-seriousness in pub- lished academic texts, drawing attention to their pragmatic functions in various text positions. keywords: academic; discourse; english; humour; language; professional; reader; research; text; writing cache: tapsla-7416.pdf plain text: tapsla-7416.txt item: #128 of 187 id: tapsla-7510 author: Wysocka, Marzena S. title: Poetry in Teaching Grammar to the Advanced Users of Polish as a FL date: 2019-06-30 words: 5974 flesch: 60 summary: Language Problems Experienced by Users of Polish as a FL The most frequent language difficulties non-native speakers of Polish suffer from are morpho-syntactic in character, and Wysocka (2007) classifies them into the following: • prepositions, for example, *Kupię na pani kawę, *Idę do poczty • pronouns, for example, *Tamte mężczyźni, *Widzę się z ją • case, for example, *Ona ma duży pies, *Potrzebuję krzesło. • collocations, for example, *robić sport, *wziąć zdjęcie, *mieć prysznic • prefixes, for example, *przyprać pranie • suffixes, for example, *inteligentność • spelling, for example, lack of discrimination between the words kość and kosić In trying to find the reasons for a high frequency the above-enumerated are characterised by in the case of the Polish language, Wysocka (2007) claims that it is L1–L2 distance and disparities that give rise to language problems of that kind. keywords: english; example; grammar; language; learners; poems; poetry; polish; problems; students; teaching; text; users; words cache: tapsla-7510.pdf plain text: tapsla-7510.txt item: #129 of 187 id: tapsla-7512 author: Piasecka, Liliana title: Foreign Language Students’ Perceptions of Their Identity date: 2019-06-30 words: 8362 flesch: 54 summary: Eventually, there is language identity. In addition, language identity may also be interpreted as “acts of identity,” which means that all utterances simultaneously point to the speaker’s iden- tity and to its ethnic, national, gender, and social class dimensions. keywords: english; foreign; identity; knowledge; language; learning; new; norton; participants; students; study cache: tapsla-7512.pdf plain text: tapsla-7512.txt item: #130 of 187 id: tapsla-7519 author: Kendik-Gut, Justyna title: Influence of Background Knowledge and Language Proficiency on Comprehension of Domain-Specific Texts by University Students date: 2019-12-17 words: 5953 flesch: 60 summary: Prior Knowledge The influence of background knowledge on text comprehension has been already addressed by researchers (Joag-Dev & Steffensen, 1995; Yin, 1985; Ridgway, 1997; Keshavarz & Atai, 2007; Erten & Razi, 2009). What is more, apart from background knowledge also the readers’ level of proficiency affects the process of text comprehension. keywords: background; comprehension; knowledge; language; proficiency; reading; students; study; test; text cache: tapsla-7519.pdf plain text: tapsla-7519.txt item: #131 of 187 id: tapsla-7521 author: Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Title page and contents date: 2019-06-30 words: 397 flesch: 11 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) Gessica de Angelis (Trinity College, Dublin) Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) keywords: katowice; language; silesia; university cache: tapsla-7521.pdf plain text: tapsla-7521.txt item: #132 of 187 id: tapsla-7522 author: Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Colophon date: 2019-06-30 words: 73 flesch: 59 summary: Cover photo: “big_blue” by Max Iter (Retrieved from www.f lickr.com) Copy editing: Gabriela Marszołek Proofreading: Joanna Zwierzyńska Typesetting: Marek Zagniński Electronic version is the original one. The journal is distributed free of charge ISSN 2451-2125 Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ul. keywords: sheets cache: tapsla-7522.pdf plain text: tapsla-7522.txt item: #133 of 187 id: tapsla-7523 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Preface date: 2019-06-30 words: 1308 flesch: 30 summary: This issue offers mainly new research contributions, reflecting the vari- ability of the learning environments in which language learning and acquisi- tion take place in the contemporary world, but in addition, point to practical applications of the findings and suggest a number of ingenious solutions, ready to be implemented in language teaching practice. It was founded in 2015, at a time when not many journals in applied linguistics (and specifically those focusing on second language acquisition) were available. keywords: issue; journal; language; polish; research cache: tapsla-7523.pdf plain text: tapsla-7523.txt item: #134 of 187 id: tapsla-7530 author: Piechurska-Kuciel, Ewa title: Danuta Wiśniewska, Action research in EFL pedagogy: Theory and analysis of practice. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2013. ISBN: 9788323226123, 414 pages date: 2019-06-30 words: 2749 flesch: 44 summary: Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2013, ISBN: 9788323226123, 414 pages Broadly understood as a process of inquiry, action research is firmly grounded in current social needs, connecting theory with practice, encouraging and stimulating reflection and researcher engagement, and enhancing multidis- ciplinary research. With its multitude (636 entries) of source texts and 128 papers collected for the needs of analysis, it appears to be the first monograph that incorporates such an in-depth analysis of action research, both from the theoretical and empirical perspectives. keywords: action; action research; author; efl; research cache: tapsla-7530.pdf plain text: tapsla-7530.txt item: #135 of 187 id: tapsla-7554 author: De Angelis, Gessica title: The Bilingual Advantage and the Language Background Bias date: 2019-12-17 words: 5315 flesch: 48 summary: As is commonly known, language knowledge is not something that individuals either have or do not have, plenty exists in between, and studies that group participants according to language background are already showing the importance of these factors for EF. Bilinguals and multilinguals speak different languages at different proficiency levels and make use of their languages in different contexts and for different purposes, and the creation of fictitious categories that do not take into account the participant’s actual background knowledge does not help researchers advance in any way. keywords: advantage; background; benefit; bialystok; bias; bilingual; bilingualism; doi; language; research; results cache: tapsla-7554.pdf plain text: tapsla-7554.txt item: #136 of 187 id: tapsla-7555 author: Singleton, David title: Bi-/multilingual Communication, Identity and the Posited Intermingling of Language Systems in the Mind date: 2019-12-17 words: 5938 flesch: 56 summary: In P. Fletcher & B. MacWhinney (Eds.), The handbook of child language (pp. 219–250). This language is then set apart from other languages in their repertoire by strong, affective factors. keywords: acquisition; bi-/multilingual; bilingual; cambridge; child; development; differentiation; english; evidence; language; linguistic; mind cache: tapsla-7555.pdf plain text: tapsla-7555.txt item: #137 of 187 id: tapsla-7564 author: Ślęzak-Świat, Agnieszka Marta title: Complementarity of Reading from Paper and Screen in the Development of Critical Thinking Skills for 21st-century Literacy. date: 2019-12-17 words: 6945 flesch: 52 summary: Keywords: literacy, screen vs. paper reading, note-taking, critical thinking skills, digital lit- eracy. Screen and paper reading research—A literature review. keywords: digital; interface; notes; paper; prefer; print; reading; screen; skills; students; study; subjects; text cache: tapsla-7564.pdf plain text: tapsla-7564.txt item: #138 of 187 id: tapsla-7638 author: Kiliańska-Przybyło, Grażyna title: Litosseliti, L. (ed.). (2018). Research Methods in Linguistics (2nd edition). London: Bloomsbury Academic - review by Grażyna Kiliańska-Przybyło date: 2019-12-17 words: 1904 flesch: 47 summary: Widely-recognized books on research methods by Nunan (1992) or Dörnyei (2007) are presented only in the chapter discussing research questions in linguistics (chap. Research methods in applied linguistics. keywords: chapter; linguistics; methods; research cache: tapsla-7638.pdf plain text: tapsla-7638.txt item: #139 of 187 id: tapsla-7658 author: Ruiz Cordero, María Begoña title: Assessing English Writing Skills of Students from Bilingual and Non-bilingual Schools in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. A Comparative Study date: 2019-12-17 words: 6817 flesch: 60 summary: Accordingly, 56.16% of bilingual school students were able to create English language writing activities with relevant content versus 25.78% among non-bilingual school students. To conclude, even though we have made clear that the English language writing skill levels of bilingual school students are indeed higher than those of non-bilingual school students’, it is necessary to highlight the need for improve- ments in the implementation of bilingual education programmes in Castilla-La Mancha (Nieto Moreno de Diezmas & Ruiz Cordero, 2018). keywords: bilingual; castilla; clil; content; english; language; learning; mancha; non; programmes; results; ruiz; school; skills; students; writing cache: tapsla-7658.pdf plain text: tapsla-7658.txt item: #140 of 187 id: tapsla-7701 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta title: Wojciech Malec, Developing Web-based Language Tests. Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL, 2018 - review by Danuta Gabryś-Barker date: 2019-12-17 words: 1980 flesch: 49 summary: Additionally, his presentation of the technological advancements which complement a thorough theoretical background to the subject covers in the greatest details the process of FL test construction, its administration and analysis of the final product. This part of the book proposes useful guidelines for teachers but it is also a necessary introduction to the test formats used in Part II of the book—in the practical discussion of the WebClass platform designed for FL test construction. keywords: author; book; language; test; testing cache: tapsla-7701.pdf plain text: tapsla-7701.txt item: #141 of 187 id: tapsla-7714 author: Rojczyk, Arkadiusz; Porzuczek, Andrzej title: Detection of Non-native Speaker Status from Backwards and Vocoded Content-masked Speech date: 2021-01-18 words: 6246 flesch: 54 summary: On the other hand, they appear to be fairly efficient in separating non- native from native speech. (2010), who found that listeners distinguished native from non-native speech at above-chance levels with Mandarin, Cantonese, and Czech L2 speakers. keywords: accent; accented; backwards; band; detection; english; language; listeners; polish; speaker; speech; status; vocoded cache: tapsla-7714.pdf plain text: tapsla-7714.txt item: #142 of 187 id: tapsla-7730 author: Kiszczak, Anna; Chodkiewicz, Halina title: Text-based Student Questioning in EFL Settings: Long-term Strategy Implementation in Reciprocal Reading Tasks and Its Perception date: 2019-12-17 words: 8356 flesch: 53 summary: Encouraging and analyzing student questions in a large physics course: Meaningful patterns for instructors. To sum up, proper guidance offered by the teacher can make students more responsive to the texts they read and more reflective on the use and contribu- tion of question generating strategy to the reading and learning process. keywords: comprehension; generating; participants; practice; questioning; questions; reading; research; sessions; strategy; students; study; text; training; use cache: tapsla-7730.pdf plain text: tapsla-7730.txt item: #143 of 187 id: tapsla-7742 author: Pinto, Jorge title: Chinese Teachers' Attitudes Towards Translanguaging and its Uses in Portuguese Foreign Language Classrooms date: 2020-06-08 words: 7353 flesch: 58 summary: Wei (2016, p. 8) argues that the trans- prefix in ‘translanguaging’ highlights: – the fluid practices that go beyond, that is, transcend, socially constructed language systems and structures to engage diverse multiple meaning-making systems and subjectivities; – the transformative capacity of the translanguaging process not only for language systems, but also for individuals’ cognition and social structures; – the transdisciplinary consequences of re-conceptualising language, lan- guage learning, and language use for linguistics, psychology, sociology, and education. Nevertheless, their study indicates that foreign language use should be maximized to provide a conducive learning environment by exposing students to appropriate language input. keywords: chinese; classroom; language; learning; students; table; teachers; teaching; translanguaging; use; uses cache: tapsla-7742.pdf plain text: tapsla-7742.txt item: #144 of 187 id: tapsla-7744 author: Palka, Adam title: Metaphors We Academicize the World with? date: 2020-06-08 words: 17776 flesch: 49 summary: Again, as it was the case with some previous categories, UN category seems to overlap with a few other categories, like C, T, O, and D, as the authors of metaphor definitions placed in this section of Table 6 also stress the aspects of comparing and transiting (from one element to another) while structuring metaphors. The mechanism of transition, or moving from one place to another, is some- thing noted in metaphor definitions by a considerable number of respondents (see Table 7), though the word itself is not necessarily employed. keywords: category; definitions; descriptors; language; linguistic; metaphor; number; participants; research; respondents; students; study; table; university; use; way; words; world cache: tapsla-7744.pdf plain text: tapsla-7744.txt item: #145 of 187 id: tapsla-7762 author: Włosowicz, Teresa Maria title: The Influence of Living and Working Abroad on the Identities of Researchers and Native Speaker Teachers date: 2021-01-18 words: 14105 flesch: 55 summary: Consequently, I devel- oped various language identities from Polish (native) being affected by and developed into English which in turn has been influenced by the Spanish one. The study focused, in particular, on how living in a foreign country on the one hand, and knowledge of foreign languages on the other, influenced the respondents’ identity, their perception of their native language and culture, as well as their objectivity in both research (in the case of researchers) and teaching, and in their approach to their native language and culture. keywords: countries; country; culture; english; identities; identity; language; living; mean; multilingual; native; participants; speakers; teachers cache: tapsla-7762.pdf plain text: tapsla-7762.txt item: #146 of 187 id: tapsla-7770 author: Wlosowicz, Teresa Maria title: Translanguaging as Mobilisation of the Linguistic Resources by Learners of Spanish as a Third or Additional Language date: 2020-06-08 words: 17859 flesch: 56 summary: As translanguaging mobilises all of a learner’s language resources, it was assumed that the use of other languages, especially English, in both comprehension and production, could be regarded as translanguaging (for example, some expressions were prompted in English and the participants were supposed to provide the Spanish equivalents). The third task involved translanguaging in a different sense: rather than using words or expressions from other languages to facilitate the task, the partici- pants were supposed to judge the grammaticality of Spanish sentences, some of which involved negative transfer from Polish, English, or both, so mobilis- ing the language repertoires was rather meant to identify the rules underlying the stimulus sentences and find the correct ones. keywords: code; competence; contextually; english; english philology; example; group; language; multilingual; participants; philology; philology students; polish; resources; romance; romance philology; spanish; students; switching; target; task; translanguaging; use; word cache: tapsla-7770.pdf plain text: tapsla-7770.txt item: #147 of 187 id: tapsla-7772 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta title: Preface date: 2019-12-17 words: 1377 flesch: 42 summary: The present issue focuses both on general themes of SLA research, but also has a strong accent on development of different language skills in context by a bilingual/multilingual language learner/user. The following texts in the present issue take an interest in individual language skills development in EFL learn- ers. keywords: journal; language; reading; research cache: tapsla-7772.pdf plain text: tapsla-7772.txt item: #148 of 187 id: tapsla-7791 author: Pańka, Daria title: Polish-English Code-Switching in the Language of Polish Facebook Users date: 2021-01-29 words: 8874 flesch: 62 summary: Code switching and code mixing in Facebook conversations in English among Thai users. An analysis of code switching in Facebook: A discourse approach. keywords: author; code; corpus; dąbrowska; english; english code; example; facebook; functions; language; learning; linguistic; polish; research; social; study; switches; switching; types; users; word cache: tapsla-7791.pdf plain text: tapsla-7791.txt item: #149 of 187 id: tapsla-7805 author: Cox, Sarah title: Can an Ecological, Multilingual Approach Help Us to Better Support Reunited Refugee Families in Scotland with Language Learning? date: 2021-01-14 words: 10111 flesch: 54 summary: A b s t r a c t This paper seeks to explore the relationship between academic literature, policy, and practice in terms of language learning within the specific context of refugee families who have recently reunited in Glasgow through the British Red Cross Family Reunion Integration Service. The paper presents research findings from a pilot teaching study, working col- laboratively with participants within their first few weeks of arriving in Scotland to explore whether an ecological, multilingual approach to language learning is effective in this context. keywords: approach; english; family; integration; language; learners; learning; new; participants; scotland; sessions; support; translanguaging; way cache: tapsla-7805.pdf plain text: tapsla-7805.txt item: #150 of 187 id: tapsla-7808 author: Papaja, Katarzyna Lidia; Wysocka-Narewska, Marzena title: Investigating Code-switching in a Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classroom date: 2020-06-08 words: 4610 flesch: 58 summary: The aim of this article is to provide an outline of the research on code-switching in CLIL, including the use of mother tongue vs. target language by CLIL teachers, as well as teacher perception of CLIL learners’ language use and language problems, attention being given to spoken and written discourse difficulties and ways of overcoming them. Keywords: code-switching, CLIL, CLIL teachers, CLIL learners Switching between languages (the target language) and the native language in the FL learning classroom is a common practice when the learners’ profi- ciency in a given FL is incomplete, and the teacher feels it necessary to use the first language in order to make his or her learners understand certain concepts. keywords: clil; code; content; language; learners; polish; switching; teachers; use cache: tapsla-7808.pdf plain text: tapsla-7808.txt item: #151 of 187 id: tapsla-7809 author: Holewik, Katarzyna title: Peer Feedback and Reflective Practice in Public Service Interpreter Training date: 2021-01-18 words: 11030 flesch: 52 summary: The importance of peer feedback and self-assessment is widely recognised in teaching and learning and benefits include: pro- moting analytical and critical thinking skills, students’ active participation in the learning process, promoting a collaborative model of teaching and learning, students’ responsibility and autonomy, to name but a few. The aim of the pilot study conducted among trainee inter- preters (MA students) of public service interpreting course was to examine interpreting qual- ity and compare positive (strengths) and negative aspects (weaknesses) of trainee interpreters’ performance identified by them by means of peer feedback and ref lection (self-assessment). keywords: assessment; feedback; interpreters; interpreting; learning; lee; peer; peer feedback; performance; practice; public; reflection; self; students; study; trainees cache: tapsla-7809.pdf plain text: tapsla-7809.txt item: #152 of 187 id: tapsla-7928 author: Komorowska, Hanna title: The Role of Attention in Teacher Education: A Factor in the Quality of European Schooling date: 2021-01-29 words: 7451 flesch: 51 summary: Suggestions are also formulated for pre- and in-service teacher education programs which are postulated to give more emphasis to the role of attention as well as to provide a toolkit of verbal and non-verbal strategies which may help language teachers to elicit and sustain learners’ attention without departing from the lesson scenario. Individual variables tend to be dealt with in the course of reflective practice which has gained a high status in teacher education of all levels (Gabryś-Barker, 2012; Krajka, 2012; Werbińska, 2017). keywords: attention; classroom; education; european; international; language; learners; learning; oecd; role; school; stimuli; students; teacher; teaching; time cache: tapsla-7928.pdf plain text: tapsla-7928.txt item: #153 of 187 id: tapsla-7929 author: Rokoszewska, Katarzyna Joanna title: Intra-individual Variability in the Emergence of Lexical Complexity in Speaking English at Secondary School date: 2020-06-08 words: 10792 flesch: 56 summary: Intra-individual Variability in the Emergence of Lexical Complexity… 113 The third part of the present case study will examine the phenomenon of intra-individual variability in the emergence of lexical complexity in speaking English as a foreign language at secondary school in the case of a good, aver- age, and poor language learner. Analysing learner language. keywords: average; case; complexity; development; english; figure; frequency; good; intra; language; language development; learner; study; test; variability; variation cache: tapsla-7929.pdf plain text: tapsla-7929.txt item: #154 of 187 id: tapsla-7970 author: none title: Title pages date: 2019-12-18 words: 234 flesch: 15 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition Vol. 5 (2), 2019 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego • Katowice 2019 Editors-in-Chief Danuta Gabryś-Barker University of Silesia, Katowice Adam Wojtaszek University of Silesia, Katowice Language Editor David Schauffler University of Silesia, Katowice Editorial Board Janusz Arabski (University of Silesia, Katowice/Vistula University, Warsaw) keywords: katowice; university cache: tapsla-7970.pdf plain text: tapsla-7970.txt item: #155 of 187 id: tapsla-7971 author: none title: Contents date: 2019-12-18 words: 170 flesch: 21 summary: Contents Preface (Danuta Gabryś-Barker, Adam Wojtaszek) 5 Articles Gessica De Angelis The Bilingual Advantage and the Language Background Bias 11 David Singleton Bi-/Multilingual Communication, Identity and the Posited Intermingling of Lan- guage Systems in the Mind 25 Anna Kiszczak, Halina Chodkiewicz Text-based Student Questioning in EFL Settings: Long-term Strategy Imple- mentation in Reciprocal Reading Tasks and Its Perception 39 Justyna Kendik-Gut Influence of Background Knowledge and Language Proficiency on Comprehen- sion of Domain-specific Texts by University Students 59 Agnieszka Ślęzak-Świat Complementarity of Reading from Paper and Screen in the Development of Critical Thinking Skills for 21st-century Literacy 75 María Begoña Ruiz Cordero Assessing English Writing Skills of Students from Bilingual and Non-Bilingual Schools in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Developing Web-based Language Tests (Lublin: Wy- dawnictwo KUL)––by Danuta Gabryś-Barker 117 Lia Litosseliti (ed ) (2018) Research Methods in Linguistics (2nd ed ) keywords: danuta; language cache: tapsla-7971.pdf plain text: tapsla-7971.txt item: #156 of 187 id: tapsla-7972 author: none title: Colophon date: 2019-12-18 words: 74 flesch: 60 summary: Cover photo: “big_blue” by Max Iter (Retrieved from www.f lickr.com) Copy editing: Gabriela Marszołek Proofreading: The journal is distributed free of charge ISSN 2451-2125 Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ul. keywords: sheets cache: tapsla-7972.pdf plain text: tapsla-7972.txt item: #157 of 187 id: tapsla-7973 author: Chłopek, Zofia title: Małgorzata Bielicka, Efektywność nauczania języka niemieckiego na poziomie przedszkolnym i wczesnoszkolnym w dwujęzycznych placówkach edukacyjnych w Polsce [The Effectiveness of Teaching German at the Pre-school and Early School Levels...] date: 2020-06-08 words: 2544 flesch: 50 summary: In J. Bland (Ed.), Teaching English to young learners: Critical issues in language teaching with 3–12 year olds (pp. 71–89). The Author discusses the competences achieved by learners in institutional settings and then moves on to describe the Polish educational system, with particular attention paid to the effectiveness of language education at the pre-school and early school levels. keywords: author; chapter; language; research; teaching cache: tapsla-7973.pdf plain text: tapsla-7973.txt item: #158 of 187 id: tapsla-8083 author: Derenowski, Marek title: Sarah Mercer and Marion Williams, Multiple Perspectives on the Self in the SLA date: 2020-06-08 words: 1560 flesch: 36 summary: However, this increasing popularity of the concept of self has brought some confusion resulting from the variety of existing definitions and overlapping terms. In Chapter Ten—Brain and Self: A Neurophilosophical Account—Georg Northoff brings a rather unfa- miliar approach as he ventures into philosophical and neuroscientific contexts in order to explain the existence of the self and the role of consciousness in the process of the self creation. keywords: chapter; language; self cache: tapsla-8083.pdf plain text: tapsla-8083.txt item: #159 of 187 id: tapsla-8228 author: Tayeh, Qadri Farid; Daana, Hana Asaad title: Jordanian University Students’ Awareness of the Different Phonetic Alternates of the English Plural Morpheme date: 2021-01-29 words: 7218 flesch: 59 summary: Correct production of the /iz/ allomorph came next: its production scored 60.8 per cent. and /iz/. *Stee and *frem are the words with the highest percentages of correct production, as they scored 82 per cent and 78 per cent respectively. keywords: /s/; /z/; allomorph; cent; english; morpheme; plural; production; students; year students cache: tapsla-8228.pdf plain text: tapsla-8228.txt item: #160 of 187 id: tapsla-8229 author: Villalobos-Buehner, Maria title: A Habermasian Approach to the Examination of Language Teachers’ Cognitive Interests date: 2021-01-29 words: 8066 flesch: 52 summary: He found out that, according to the mainstream research, student teachers develop in diverse ways. Therefore, in order to comprehend the scope of the impact of teacher training programs on student teachers, one should focus on individual cases. keywords: beliefs; classroom; education; habermas; interests; language; language teachers; learning; level; participants; semester; service; students; study; teachers; teaching cache: tapsla-8229.pdf plain text: tapsla-8229.txt item: #161 of 187 id: tapsla-8325 author: Ewert, Anna title: Annick De Houwer and Lourdes Ortega (Eds.) (2019). The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism date: 2021-01-18 words: 2316 flesch: 40 summary: In chapter 1, Becoming Bilingual in Early Childhood (pp. 15–35), Serratrice discusses bilingual language development in early childhood, that is, since birth until the age of six. The only field that seems to have been somewhat neglected by the editors is psycholinguistic research on bilingual language processing, where several complementary perspectives could have been presented instead of one. keywords: bilingualism; chapter; language; learning; research cache: tapsla-8325.pdf plain text: tapsla-8325.txt item: #162 of 187 id: tapsla-8326 author: Liu, Meihua title: A Study of Chinese University English Majors’ L2 Motivational Self date: 2021-01-18 words: 7615 flesch: 56 summary: Based on these findings, some pedagogical implications and suggestions for future research are discussed Keywords: L2 motivational self, L2 motivation, ideal L2 self, ought-to L2 self, L2 learning experience Introduction As one of the most important individual variables in second/foreign lan- guage (SL/FL) learning, motivation has been investigated by researchers from different perspectives (Dörnyei, 2005, 2009; Gardner, 1985; MacIntyre & Charos, 1996). Drawing on these theories of selves, Dörnyei (2005, 2009) proposes the L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) theory which involves three components: Ideal L2 Self, Ought-to L2 Self, and L2 Learning Experience. keywords: chinese; dörnyei; english; experience; l2 self; language; learners; learning; motivation; self; students; study; university; year cache: tapsla-8326.pdf plain text: tapsla-8326.txt item: #163 of 187 id: tapsla-8361 author: Rokita-Jaśkow, Joanna title: Dorota Werbińska (2017). The Formation of Language Teacher Identity. A Phenomenographic-Narrative Study date: 2021-01-18 words: 1126 flesch: 42 summary: By qualitatively investigating numerous accounts of teachers-to-be, she manages to propose a synthetic framework for developing language teacher identity. Her model, named 3 ALTIF model (i.e., 3A Language Teacher Identity Framework), is the basis for presenting the overview of current research on language teacher identity, both globally and locally, that is, in Poland as well as for investigating her own empirical data in chapters 5 and 6. keywords: identity; language; teacher cache: tapsla-8361.pdf plain text: tapsla-8361.txt item: #164 of 187 id: tapsla-8431 author: Gregersen, Tammy; MacIntyre, Peter D.; Buck, Rachel title: Using Character Strengths to Address English Writing Anxiety date: 2021-07-09 words: 10185 flesch: 54 summary: Promoting positive outcomes through strengths interventions: A literature review. In general, most PPIs, including the novel use of signature strengths employed here, usually are framed as an outline of activity and processes that must be tailored to individuals. keywords: anxiety; assignment; character; english; gregersen; intervention; language; macintyre; narrative; new; noor; psychology; research; strengths; study; ways; writing cache: tapsla-8431.pdf plain text: tapsla-8431.txt item: #165 of 187 id: tapsla-8439 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Preface date: 2020-06-08 words: 1600 flesch: 37 summary: Although the reviewer notices certain drawbacks, pertaining predominantly to the content of the theoretical part, she neverthe- less considers Bielicka’s monograph a valuable contribution to our knowledge about teaching foreign languages to young learners. The decision to publish came from the fact that although Poland has a strong presence among second language acquisition and multilinguality researchers, which is demonstrated by both the large number of conferences and also book publications appearing every year, academic journals focusing on theoretical issues as well as practical concerns of SLA are fairly rare. keywords: journal; language; learners; polish; study cache: tapsla-8439.pdf plain text: tapsla-8439.txt item: #166 of 187 id: tapsla-8447 author: Mystkowska-Wiertelak, Anna title: Ali H. Al-Hoorie and Peter D. MacIntyre (Eds.) (2020), Contemporary Language Motivation Theory. 60 Years since Gardner and Lambert (1959) (Bristol: Multilingual Matters)—by Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak date: 2021-01-29 words: 1922 flesch: 34 summary: In the third chapter in this section “Researching L2 Motivation: Re-evaluating the Role of Qualitative Inquiry, or the ‘Wine an Conversation’ Approach,” Ema Ushioda, in a largely personal tone writes about her own contribution to language motivation research in the form of qualitative enquiry. Phil Hiver and Diane Larsen- Freeman in their “Motivation: It is a Relational System” employ complexity theory to reflect on the relational character of language learning motivation. keywords: gardner; language; motivation; psychology; research; theory cache: tapsla-8447.pdf plain text: tapsla-8447.txt item: #167 of 187 id: tapsla-8456 author: Molek-Kozakowska, Katarzyna title: Book review: Timothy Reagan, Linguistic Legitimacy and Social Justice date: 2021-07-09 words: 2832 flesch: 31 summary: Chapter One, Language and Other Myths: “Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt” (pp. 1–28) is a fitting introduction to some of the paradoxes plighting our perceptions of language. While theorists of lan- guage tell us that all languages are fundamentally equal (logical, exhaustive, and comprehensive), much of applied scholarship indicates the opposite, with continual debates over normativity, standardization, the status of languages vis- à-vis dialects, and (un)welcome language change. keywords: chapter; english; language; legitimacy; reagan; social cache: tapsla-8456.pdf plain text: tapsla-8456.txt item: #168 of 187 id: tapsla-8497 author: Latkowska, Jolanta title: Vaclav Brezina, Statistics in Corpus Linguistics. A Practical Guide date: 2020-06-08 words: 2804 flesch: 41 summary: 257–282) is a summary of the rules and guidelines regarding good practices in statistical analysis. A potential lacuna is a lack of information on how to process data prior to statistical analysis. keywords: analysis; chapter; corpus; language; linguistics; research; statistics cache: tapsla-8497.pdf plain text: tapsla-8497.txt item: #169 of 187 id: tapsla-8514 author: Li, Xiaoyan title: Learning Japanese Onomatopoeia through a Narrative-Evaluation E-Learning System date: 2021-07-09 words: 6901 flesch: 53 summary: In this study, we examine the effectiveness of learning onomatopoeia nuance through a narrative evaluation approach. In this study, we set out to answer the following research questions, as a foundation for the creation of an e-learning system for Japanese onomatopoeia learning: • keywords: creation; evaluation; feedback; group; japanese; language; learners; learning; narrative; nuances; onomatopoeia; rules; system; test; word cache: tapsla-8514.pdf plain text: tapsla-8514.txt item: #170 of 187 id: tapsla-8527 author: Kapranov, Oleksandr title: The Dynamics of Needs in a Course in English Phonetics for In-Service Primary School Teachers of English date: 2021-01-18 words: 11849 flesch: 55 summary: That study aims at elucidating the needs of primary school EFL teachers by means of combining the teachers’ and teacher educators’ perspectives. Specifically, these two investigations are indicative of the focus on knowledge of primary school students in addition to the needs of primary school EFL teachers’ own needs. keywords: change; course; efl; english; language; learning; needs; participants; phonetics; primary; pronunciation; school; school teachers; service; study; teachers; teaching cache: tapsla-8527.pdf plain text: tapsla-8527.txt item: #171 of 187 id: tapsla-8594 author: Montero-SaizAja, Alejandra title: Gender-based Differences in EFL Learners' Language Learning Strategies and Productive Vocabulary date: 2021-07-09 words: 9226 flesch: 58 summary: 83–107 https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.8594 Alejandra Montero-SaizAja https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9835-6069 University of La Rioja, Spain Gender-based Differences in EFL Learners’ Language Learning Strategies and Productive Vocabulary A b s t r a c t Gender is a key factor in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), where its impact on language learning strategies (Aslan, 2009; Oxford & Nyikos, 1989; Finally, the third objective was to investigate whether there was a statistically significant relationship between language learning strategies and productive vocabulary. keywords: differences; efl; english; females; gender; language; language learning; learners; learning strategies; oxford; research; students; studies; table; university; use; vocabulary cache: tapsla-8594.pdf plain text: tapsla-8594.txt item: #172 of 187 id: tapsla-8642 author: Liu, Meihua title: Focus and Effects of Peer and Machine Feedback on Chinese University EFL Learners’ Revisions of English Argumentative Essays date: 2021-01-29 words: 9439 flesch: 58 summary: The study collected data from 127 Chinese university EFL learners, which included Draft 1, peer feedback (PF), PF-based Draft 2, machine feedback (MF), MF-based Draft 2, questionnaires, and interview recordings. Keywords: peer feedback, machine feedback, focus, effect, rewrite, argumentative essay Introduction As an essential component of students’ academic development in a second/ foreign language (SL/FL), writing requires a considerable amount of time and effort since it involves higher order thinking, which makes it very challenging for many SL/FL writers (Cope et al., 2011; Dikli & Bleyle, 2014). keywords: argumentative; draft; effects; english; errors; feedback; language; machine feedback; mean; peer; peer feedback; students; study; writing cache: tapsla-8642.pdf plain text: tapsla-8642.txt item: #173 of 187 id: tapsla-8667 author: Mart, Çağrı Tuğrul title: Integrating Form and Content within Classroom Discussion of Literature: A Discernible Advantage in Language Learning date: 2021-01-29 words: 9564 flesch: 56 summary: The study revealed that collaborating FFI and CBI within classroom discussions of literature is an optimal path for language learners to attend to language forms within communicative practice and creates them occasions to negotiate form and meaning. The provision of language forms in meaning-based tasks is an optimal path for language learners to achieve the desired outcomes for language proficiency development through building grammar and vocabulary knowledge. keywords: acquisition; classroom; content; ffi; focus; form; grammar; group; instruction; language; learners; learning; meaning; post; second; teaching; test; vocabulary cache: tapsla-8667.pdf plain text: tapsla-8667.txt item: #174 of 187 id: tapsla-8989 author: Borkowska, Anna title: The Relationship among Age-advanced Learners’ In-class Willingness to Communicate in English, Intrinsic Motivation, Classroom Environment and Teacher Immediacy—A Pilot Study date: 2022-07-29 words: 10712 flesch: 60 summary: Thus, age-advanced learn- ers’ active participation during English classes seems to be mediated by their intrinsic motivation, which as the most self-determined form of motivation, is a paramount factor maintaining students’ effort and engagement in the second language process of learning (Noels, Clément, & Pelletier, 2001). In this regard, both instrumental immediacy (i.e., the teacher’s at- titude towards his or her profession), and relational immediacy (i.e., the teacher’s behaviors towards his or her students) seem to shape senior learners’ engage- ment, as well as active involvement in English classes (cf. Q. Zhang & Oetzel, 2006). keywords: class; classroom; english; environment; immediacy; item; language; learners; learning; motivation; second; seniors; students; study; teacher; willingness; wtc cache: tapsla-8989.pdf plain text: tapsla-8989.txt item: #175 of 187 id: tapsla-9098 author: Leis, Adrian title: Praise in the EFL Classroom date: 2021-07-09 words: 8838 flesch: 58 summary: The Study Research Question In the present study, I aim to answer the following research question: Does praising students for success result in other students in the classroom who have been unsuccessful showing characteristics of a fixed mindset? Praise in the EFL Classroom… 49 In the classroom, words of praise for students that do not encourage com- parisons with other students can develop the feeling of individualized instruc- tion. keywords: classroom; control; dweck; experiment; feedback; group; growth; language; mindset; praise; puzzles; students; study; test cache: tapsla-9098.pdf plain text: tapsla-9098.txt item: #176 of 187 id: tapsla-9104 author: Marszolek, Gabriela title: Colophon date: 2020-06-08 words: 74 flesch: 50 summary: Cover photo: “big_blue” by Max Iter (Retrieved from www.f lickr.com) Copy editing: Gabriela Marszołek Proofreading: Joanna Zwierzyńska Typesetting: Marek Zagniński Electronic version is the original one. The journal is distributed free of charge ISSN 2451-2125 Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego ul. keywords: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ cache: tapsla-9104.pdf plain text: tapsla-9104.txt item: #177 of 187 id: tapsla-9105 author: Marszolek, Gabriela title: Style Guide for the Authors date: 2020-06-08 words: 701 flesch: 65 summary: Retrieved from: http://www.molecu- larbrain.com/content/ Style Guide for the Authors 205 Bakker, A. B., Hakanen, J. J., Demerouti, E., & Xanthopoulou, D. (2007). Construction learning and second language acquisi- tion. keywords: authors; period; text cache: tapsla-9105.pdf plain text: tapsla-9105.txt item: #178 of 187 id: tapsla-9106 author: Marszolek, Gabriela title: Title pages and Contents date: 2020-06-08 words: 438 flesch: 29 summary: Tammy Gregersen (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls) Ulrike Jessner Schmid (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck) Hanna Komorowska (University of Social Sciences and Humanities/University of Warsaw) Jolanta Latkowska (University of Silesia, Katowice) Peter MacIntyre (Cape Breton University, Sydney) Anna Niżegorodcew (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) Aneta Pavlenko (Temple University, Philadelphia) Miroslaw Pawlak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Kalisz/State School of Higher Professional Education, Konin) Halina Chodkiewicz (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin) Gessica de Angelis (Trinity College, Dublin) Anna Ewert (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) keywords: katowice; language; silesia; university cache: tapsla-9106.pdf plain text: tapsla-9106.txt item: #179 of 187 id: tapsla-9152 author: Gedik, Tan Arda; Kolsal, Yağmur Su title: A Corpus-based Analysis of High School English Textbooks and English University Entrance Exams in Turkey date: 2022-01-28 words: 7933 flesch: 53 summary: Given the context of the EFL teaching situation not only in Turkey but also in other countries, the following question arises: do English textbooks used in high schools and English university entrance exams correspond to each other in terms of lexical complexity? Hence, this study aims to analyze English high school textbooks and the complementary materials that are currently in use throughout the country and English university entrance exams that were administered in the past ten years in terms of lexical sophis- tication, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity using corpus linguistics analysis tools. keywords: analysis; complexity; corpora; corpus; diversity; english; exam; indices; language; proficiency; sophistication; students; study; syntactic; textbooks; turkey; words cache: tapsla-9152.pdf plain text: tapsla-9152.txt item: #180 of 187 id: tapsla-9238 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta title: Sarah Mercer, Tammy Gregersen (2020). Teacher Wellbeing [Oxford Handbooks for Language Teachers] (Oxford: Oxford University Press)—by Danuta Gabryś-Barker date: 2021-01-29 words: 1936 flesch: 54 summary: The authors believe that “the well-being of language teachers is a shared responsibility—for indi- viduals and institutions as well as for wider educational and cultural systems” (p. 33), thus promoting a proactive approach of the teacher which will allow him/her to improve the workplace through autonomy and innovation. In conclusion, the authors once again express their main aim in publishing a practical manual in language teacher wellbeing and offer a way forward for readers in the form of a list of questions for action, which are meant to “motivate you and inspire you to take steps towards wellbeing goals that are realistic, meaningful, and sustainable for you” (p. 130). keywords: authors; language; teacher; wellbeing cache: tapsla-9238.pdf plain text: tapsla-9238.txt item: #181 of 187 id: tapsla-9285 author: Ferrerós Pagès, Carla title: Conceptual and Linguistic Transfer from L2 (Catalan) to L1 (Amazigh) within the Context of Migration date: 2021-07-09 words: 10474 flesch: 60 summary: Carla Ferrerós Pagès118 Issues of Polysemy or Vagueness with Anatomical References Vague or polysemic Amazigh words. Table 3 Vague or polysemic Amazigh words Amazigh Meaning Catalan Meaning tagarjumt ‘tube that goes through the throat’ esòfag ‘oesophagus’ faringe ‘pharynx’ laringe ‘larynx’ afus ‘hand’ ‘arm’ mà ‘hand’ braç ‘arm’ aḍar ‘leg’ ‘foot’ peu ‘foot’ cama ‘leg’ keywords: amazigh; body; cases; catalan; catalonia; conceptual; heart; language; linguistic; participants; parts; speakers; transfer; use; word cache: tapsla-9285.pdf plain text: tapsla-9285.txt item: #182 of 187 id: tapsla-9501 author: Gosiewska-Turek, Bogusława Maria title: Dyslexia, Self-efficacy, and Language Instruction in Foreign Language Learning -- A Mixed Quantitive-qualitative Study date: 2022-01-28 words: 5484 flesch: 56 summary: The research findings in the first quantitative part of the study reveal that self-efficacy in dyslexic students is sub- stantially lower than in non-dyslexic students. According to the results of the second mixed, quantitative-qualitative part of the study encompassing a case study, foreign language instruc- tion has an impact on dyslexic students’ self-efficacy and appropriate language instruction rises self-efficacy in students with dyslexia. keywords: adam; dyslexic; efficacy; language; learning; non; self; students; study; teaching; words cache: tapsla-9501.pdf plain text: tapsla-9501.txt item: #183 of 187 id: tapsla-9613 author: Ożańska-Ponikwia, Katarzyna title: Book review: Christina Gkonou, Mark Daubney, Jean-Marc Dewaele, New Insights into Language Anxiety: Theory, Research and Educational Implications date: 2021-07-09 words: 2105 flesch: 34 summary: Consequently, we might say that the main objective of the monograph in question is to fill this gap and clarify the many confusing aspects about language anxiety by presenting the latest studies by renown language anxiety researchers, focusing both on the theoretical and pedagogical implications for future investigation, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.9613 Katarzyna Ożańska-Ponikwia188 as well as making useful suggestions for reducing the influence of language anxiety in a classroom setting. 187–191 https://doi.org/10.31261/TAPSLA.9613 Christina Gkonou, Mark Daubney, Jean-Marc Dewaele, New Insights into Language Anxiety: Theory, Research and Educational Implications Bristol: Multilingual Matters, 2017 ISBN: 9781783097715, 226 pages The book edited by Christina Gkonou, Mark Daubney, and Jean-Marc Dewaele entitled New Insights into Language Anxiety: Theory, Research and Educational Implications provides a very interesting overview of current theory, research, and practice in the field of language anxiety. keywords: anxiety; chapter; language; learners; research cache: tapsla-9613.pdf plain text: tapsla-9613.txt item: #184 of 187 id: tapsla-9629 author: Ślęzak-Świat, Agnieszka title: Development of Digital Literacy – Translanguaging and Transmedia Note Taking Formats for Academic Reading date: 2022-01-28 words: 8018 flesch: 54 summary: The collected data shows that only some subjects (n = 42/103) received some form of instruction in paper note taking techniques or digital applications facilitating note taking. On methods for evaluating student note taking performance. keywords: digital; formats; information; language; n =; note; note taking; paper; reading; students; subjects; taking; text; translanguaging; use cache: tapsla-9629.pdf plain text: tapsla-9629.txt item: #185 of 187 id: tapsla-9903 author: Gabryś-Barker, Danuta; Wojtaszek, Adam Stanisław title: Preface date: 2021-01-18 words: 1639 flesch: 42 summary: Its foundation was built upon our belief that although Poland has a strong presence among second lan- guage acquisition and multilinguality researchers, which is demonstrated by the large number of conferences and also book publications appearing every year, academic journals like this one, concerned with both theoretical issues and the practical concerns of SLA, are not that numerous. It is of importance that the Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition journal is published by the prestigious Polish academic publisher, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego (University of Silesia Press). keywords: identity; journal; language; polish; research cache: tapsla-9903.pdf plain text: tapsla-9903.txt item: #186 of 187 id: tapsla-9986 author: Hughes, Christopher J. L.; Costley, Jamie; Lange, Christopher title: The Relationship between Attention and Extraneous Load date: 2021-07-09 words: 8427 flesch: 53 summary: Theory A b s t r a c t There has been a call in recent years for an integration of cognitive load theory into instructed second language acquisition practices to assist language learners by taking ad- vantage of theories on human cognitive architecture (Sweller, 2017). Two ways to explain how individuals learn languages from asynchronous video instruction that could provide a framework for deciding the appropriate blend and use of multimedia instruction in the context of language learners engaged in online learning environments are instructed second language acquisition theory (ISLA) and cognitive load theory (CLT). keywords: acquisition; attention; distraction; instruction; language; language learning; learners; learning; load; process; relationship; research; text cache: tapsla-9986.pdf plain text: tapsla-9986.txt item: #187 of 187 id: tapsla-9993 author: Birhan, Amare Tesfie; Teka, Mulugeta; Asrade, Nibret title: Effects of Using Corpus-Based Instructional Mediation on EFL Students’ Academic Writing Skills Improvement date: 2021-07-09 words: 8201 flesch: 45 summary: Revealing disciplinary variation in student writing: A multi- dimensional analysis of the Michigan corpus of upper-level student papers (MICUSP), Corpora, 8(2), 183–207. Therefore, this research calls for inclusion of corpus-based authentic linguistic elements in their teaching material when teaching academic writing courses in the EFL context. keywords: bundles; control; corpus; data; english; grammar; group; language; learning; linguistics; mediation; research; skills; students; teaching; writing cache: tapsla-9993.pdf plain text: tapsla-9993.txt