Frontmatter

Articles in the same Issue

1. Frontmatter
2. Research Articles
3. “Am I really abroad?” The informal language contact and social networks of Chinese foundation students in the UK
4. Comprehension of English articles by Korean learners of L2 English and L3 Spanish
5. Motivation and growth in kanji proficiency: a longitudinal study using latent growth curve modeling
6. The impact of textual enhancement on the acquisition of third person possessive pronouns by child EFL learners
7. Domain-general grit and domain-specific grit: conceptual structures, measurement, and associations with the achievement of German as a foreign language
8. The different effects of the ideal L2 self and intrinsic motivation on reading performance via engagement among young Chinese second-language learners
9. Image-schema-based-instruction enhanced L2 construction learning with the optimal balance between attention to form and meaning
10. Investigating willingness to communicate in synchronous group discussion tasks: one step closer towards authentic communication
11. Investigating willingness to communicate vis-à-vis learner talk in a low-proficiency EAP classroom in the UK study-abroad context
12. Functions, sociocultural explanations and conversational influence of discourse markers: focus on zenme shuo ne in L2 Chinese
13. The impact of abdominal enhancement techniques on L1 Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin speakers’ English pronunciation
14. Discourse competence across band scores: an analysis of speaking performance in the General English Proficiency Test
15. Videoed storytelling in primary education EFL: exploring trainees’ digital shift
16. Competing factors in SLA: how the CASP model of SLA explains the acquisition of English restrictive relative clauses by native speakers of Arabic and Korean
17. Factors behind L2 English learners’ performance of oppositional speech acts: a look at pragmatic-related episodes (PREs) during thinking aloud
18. Revisiting after-class boredom via exploratory structural equation modeling
19. Exploring aural vocabulary knowledge for TOEIC as a language exit requirement in higher education in Taiwan
20. Grammatical gender assignment in L3 versus L4 Swedish: a pseudo-longitudinal study
21. Strategic reading comprehension in L2 and L3: assuming relative interdependence within Cummins’ linguistic interdependence hypothesis
22. Incidental collocational learning from reading-while-listening and the impact of synchronized textual enhancement
23. Learnability of L2 collocations and L1 influence on L2 collocational representations of Japanese learners of English
24. The use of interlanguage pragmatic learning strategies (IPLS) by L2 learners: the impact of age, gender, language learning experience, and L2 proficiency levels
25. “They forget and forget all the time.” The complexity of teaching adult deaf emergent readers print literacy
26. Exploring the learning benefits of collaborative writing in L2 Chinese: a product-oriented perspective
27. Investigating the effects of varying Accelerative Integrated Method instruction on spoken recall accuracy: a case study with junior primary learners of French
28. Testing a model of EFL teachers’ work engagement: the roles of teachers’ professional identity, L2 grit, and foreign language teaching enjoyment
29. The combined effects of a higher-level verb distribution and verb semantics on second language learners’ restriction of L2 construction generalization
30. Insights from an empirical study on communicative functions and L1 use during conceptual mediation in L2 peer interaction
31. On the acquisition of tense and agreement in L2 English by adult speakers of L1 Chinese