Notes on Contributors 16 May 2013 | 04:09 pm

Sketching Muslims: A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word 'Muslim' in the British Press 1998-2009 16 May 2013 | 04:09 pm

This article uses methods from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine patterns of representation around the word Muslim in a 143 million word corpus of British newspaper article...

'Co-constructing' Explicit L2 Knowledge with High School Spanish Learners through Guided Induction 16 May 2013 | 04:09 pm

This article documents how second language (L2) Spanish learners in an American high school formulated explicit grammar rules during three inductive lessons on the pronominal clitic se. Following Adai...

Test-Takers' Strategic Behaviors in Independent and Integrated Speaking Tasks 16 May 2013 | 04:09 pm

This study investigated the strategic behaviors that test-takers reported using when responding to integrated and independent speaking tasks in an English oral proficiency test [the Speaking Section o...

Silence in the Second Language Classrooms of Japanese Universities 16 May 2013 | 04:09 pm

Japanese language learners’ proclivity for silence has been alluded to by various writers (e.g. Anderson 1993; Korst 1997; Greer 2000) and is supported by plenty of anecdotal evidence, but large-scale...

Relative Effects of Explicit and Implicit Feedback: The Role of Working Memory Capacity and Language Analytic Ability 16 May 2013 | 04:09 pm

The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of two cognitive factors (i.e. working memory capacity [WMC] and language analytic ability [LAA]) in the extent to which L2 learners benefit from t...

Lexical Bundles in Discourse Structure: A Corpus-Based Study of Classroom Discourse 16 May 2013 | 04:09 pm

The present study applies corpus-based methods to document the distributional patterns of previously reported lexical bundle functions as they relate to discourse structure. Specifically, 84 lexical b...

A Reappraisal of Lexical Cohesion in Conversational Discourse 25 Apr 2013 | 11:29 am

Cohesion, or the connectedness of discourse, has been recognized as playing a crucial role in both language production and comprehension processes. Researchers have debated about the ‘right’ number an...

What's On Your Mind? How Private Speech Mediates Cognition During Initial Non-Primary Language Learning 25 Apr 2013 | 11:29 am

Vygotskian sociocultural theory of mind holds that language mediates thought. According to the theory, speech does not merely put completed thought into words; rather, it is a tool to refine thought a...

Western Perceptions of Hong Kong Ten Years On: A Corpus-driven Critical Discourse Study 25 Apr 2013 | 11:29 am

This article studies the Western perceptions of and relations with Hong Kong a decade after the reversion of the sovereignty from Britain to China in 1997. Previous studies have demonstrated that the ...