Questionnaires have been widely used in second language (L2) research. To examine the
accuracy and trustworthiness of research that uses questionnaires, it is necessary to …

A considerable amount of research on foreign language (FL) listening anxiety has emerged
since 1986, yet a lack of sufficient attention on the conceptual definitions of FL listening …

Research has suggested the important role of vocabulary knowledge in second language
(L2) speaking proficiency. However, earlier studies tended to disregard the congruence in …

Ethnolinguistic minority students may have lower levels of metacognitive knowledge and
English vocabulary knowledge than non-minority students. Nevertheless, few longitudinal …

This study takes a rarely employed learner's angle in examining how students are learning
in the English Medium Instruction (EMI) classroom. Particularly, the study tapped into …

This study was to assess the spoken vocabulary knowledge and its role in incidental
vocabulary learning from captioned television. The participants were a total of 87 minority …

Structural equation modeling (SEM) and meta-analysis (MA) are both powerful techniques
employed frequently throughout the social and behavioral sciences, including applied …

In this focused methodological synthesis, the sample construction procedures of 110 second
language (L2) instructed vocabulary interventions were assessed in relation to effect size …

This study quantifies second language (L2) knowledge of aural single words and aural
phrasal verbs (PVs) and investigates their relationship with L2 listening comprehension. An …

This study examined the relationship between second language (L2) learners' collocation
knowledge and oral proficiency. A new approach to measuring collocation was adopted by …