The Modern Language Journal

New issue from MLJ!
Capturing L2 Development Through Learner Corpus Analysis, Volume 97, Supplement 1 Pages 1-25, January 2013

Featured articles include:  

• Capturing the Dynamics of Second Language Development via Learner Corpus Research: A Very Long Engagement (pages 1–10)
  VICTORIA HASKO
  
  
• Specific Syntactic Complexity: Developmental Profiling of Individuals Based on an Annotated Learner Corpus (pages 11–30)
  NINA VYATKINA
  
  

• Second Language Learners' Contiguous and Discontiguous Multi-Word Unit Use Over Time (pages 31-45)
  AZIZ YULDASHEV, JULIETA FERNANDEZ and STEVEN L. THORNE
  
  

• Variability in Chinese as a Foreign Language Learners' Development of the Chinese Numeral Classifier System (pages 46-60)
  JIE ZHANG and XIAOFEI LU
  
  

• Tracking Learners' Progress: Adopting a Dual ‘Corpus cum Experimental Data’ Approach (pages 61-76)
  FANNY MEUNIER and DAMIEN LITTRE
  
  

• More...

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• Translanguaging in the Bilingual Classroom: A Pedagogy for Learning and Teaching?
  ANGELA CREESE and ADRIAN BLACKLEDGE
  
  
• Identifying Strategies That Facilitate EFL Learners' Oral Communication: A Classroom Study Using Multiple Data Collection Procedures
  YASUO NAKATANI
  
  
• The Percentage of Words Known in a Text and Reading Comprehension
  NORBERT SCHMITT, XIANGYING JIANG, WILLIAM GRABE
  
  
• Second Language Learners' Beliefs About Grammar Instruction and Error Correction
  SHAWN LOEWEN, SHAOFENG LI, FEI FEI, AMY THOMPSON, KIMI NAKATSUKASA, SEONGMEE AHN, XIAOQING CHEN
  
  
• Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Effective Foreign Language Teaching: A Comparison of Ideals
  ALAN V. BROWN 

The Summer 2013 issue of MLJ will feature:    

• The Wor(l)d is a Collage: Multi-Performance by Chinese Heritage Speakers
  AGNES WEIYUN HE
• Adult Learners’ Lack of Fully Integrated Cognitive Representations of the Korean Honorific Affix (u)Si
  JEANSUE MUELLER & NAN JIANG
• Learning English in social interaction: the case of Big Brother Finland
  LEILA KÄÄNTÄ, HEIDI JAUNI, SIRPA LEPPÄNEN, SAIJA PEURONEN & TERHI PAAKKINEN
• Styling in a language learned later in life
  BEN RAMPTON
• La Orquesta: Symbolic Performance in a Multilingual Community of Practice
  MICHELE BACK
• The Function of Gesture in Lexically Focused L2 Instructional Conversations
  TETYANA SMOTROVA & JAMES LANTOLF
• Using the Hand to Choreograph Instruction: On the Functional Role of Gesture in ESL Definitions
  HASSAN BELHIAH
• Foreign Language Learning Motivation in Higher Education: A Longitudinal Study of Motivational Changes and their Causes
  VERA BUSSE & CATHERINE WALTER
• Arabic and English during study abroad in Cairo, Egypt: Issues of access and use
  EMMA TRENTMAN
• Strategy Inventory for Language Learning—ELL Student Form: Testing for Factorial Validity
  YULIYA ARDASHEVA & THOMAS TRETTER
• Teachers’ Education in Socratic Dialogue: Some Effects on Teacher-Learner Interaction
  DUBRAVKA KNEZIC
• Explicit Information, Grammatical Sensitivity, and the First-Noun Principle: A Cross-Linguistic Study in Processing Instruction
  BILL VAN PATTEN, STEFANIE BORST, ERIN COLLOPY, ANTHONY QUALIN & JOSEPH PRICE