Despite the increasing number of empirical studies that investigated foreign language
writing anxiety and its correlates, there is still a lack of quantitative meta-analytic attempt on …

Although there are many existing reviews of research on age and second language
acquisition (L2A) of morphosyntax, none has benefited from the systematicity that results …

This Handbook, with 45 chapters written by the world's leading scholars in second language
acquisition (SLA) and language testing, dives into the important interface between SLA and …

Effective readers consciously or unconsciously use reading strategies to help them process
information on what they read. All readers can benefit from reading strategy instruction but …

This study reports on the results of a meta-analysis which investigates the effects of
dictionary use on second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition, as well as the magnitude of …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language
Acquisition The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Second Language Acquisition is the first …

Previous research has suggested a relationship between musical abilities and the
perception of speech prosody. However, effect sizes and significance differ across studies …

The intent of this chapter is to provide a selective overview of current second language
acquisition (SLA) research. I begin by presenting several approaches to SLA, including …

Research into the effectiveness of task-based interaction in acquisition of specific
grammatical structures of the target language has been scarce and sometimes has …

STUDY QUALITY IN SLA: A CUMULATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF
DESIGNS, ANALYSES, REPORTING PRACTICES, AND OUTCOMES IN QUANT Page 1 STUDY …