Interaction is an indispensable component in second language acquisition (SLA). This
review surveys the instructed SLA research, both classroom and laboratory-based, that has …

Over the last few decades, task-based language teaching (TBLT) has garnered increasing
attention from researchers and educators alike. With a strong and growing body of research …

This article offers a capacious view of technology to suggest broad principles relating
technology and language use, language teaching, and language learning. The first part of …

Peer Interaction and Second Language Learning synthesizes the existing body of research
on the role of peer interaction in second language learning in one comprehensive volume …

In this commentary to the Special Issue, I first identify four themes that arise from the
contributions that each study makes to the study of syntactic complexity in L2 writing. I then …

The range, variety, or diversity of words found in learners' language use is believed to reflect
the complexity of their vocabulary knowledge as well as the level of their language …

Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing researchers' and practitioners'
attention since its onset in the 1980s. The rich and still expanding literature on TBLT is …

With the advancement and popularity of information and communication technologies (ICT),
English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) students do have now access and opportunities to …

In the inaugural issue of Language Learning & Technology (LLT), which intended to define
the research agenda for the journal, all four articles addressed the question of how SLA …

Informed by the cognition hypothesis (Robinson, 2011), recent studies indicate that more
cognitively complex tasks can result in better incorporation of feedback during interaction …