Sonia López-Serrano

University of La Laguna | ULL · English and German Philology

This book deals with the effects of three different learning contexts mainly on adult, but also on adolescent, learners’ language acquisition. The three contexts brought together in the monograph include i) a conventional instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) environment, in which learners receive formal instruction in English as a Foreign...

Framed in a cognitively-oriented strand of research on corrective feedback (CF) in SLA, the controlled three- stage (composition/comparison-noticing/revision) study reported in this paper investigated the effects of two forms of direct CF (error correction and reformulation) on noticing and uptake, as evidenced in the written output produced by a g...

There has been a growing interest in the study of writing from the perspective of its potential contribution to language development. However, scant attention has been paid to key methodological considerations regarding the analysis of the connection between L2 writing processes, reflection on language while writing, and language learning. In an at...

The present study explored the different levels of processing as well as the strategic orientation involved in the language-related episodes identified in the think-aloud protocols produced by 21 EFL writers (divided into three proficiency groups: pre-intermediate, intermediate and advanced) during the individual completion of an argumentative writ...

In the last two decades, research on English-medium education (EME) has grown exponentially because of internationalisation and globalisation. Many early studies have examined university lecturers' attitudes to the change in the language of instruction as well as on their linguistic and pedagogical needs. However, much less attention has been paid...

Action-research that explores students' perceptions of their learning of ESP terminology through a microlessons project.

**The students' perceptions questionnaire used in the study is now available in the "Supplementary resources" section. We include versions in English, Catalan and Spanish.** Abstract: While providing language learners with written corrective feedback (WCF) is a widespread methodology among L2 teachers, classroom-based studies in which feedback pra...

This book deals with the effects of three different learning contexts mainly on adult, but also on adolescent, learners’ language acquisition. The three contexts brought together in the monograph include i) a conventional instructed second language acquisition (ISLA) environment, in which learners receive formal instruction in English as a Foreign...

According to Leow’s recent model of instructed SLA (2015), the effects of both input and output processing on L2 learning will depend on the depth of such processing (DOP), which is defined as the “amount of cognitive effort, level of analysis, elaboration of intake together with the usage of prior knowledge, hypothesis testing and rule formation e...

This paper is intended as an exploration of university faculty and students’ perceptions of a number of dimensions involved in the written composition of academic texts. We analysed the responses to scale 3 in the European Writing Survey (EUWRIT) (in its Spanish version: Encuesta Europea sobre la Escritura Académica, EEEA) by a group of social scie...

Universidad de Murcia, Spain As compared to research with adults, children's writing is not particularly visible as a field of inquiry in L2 writing research. According to Matsuda & De Pew (2002), the main reasons for this state of affairs include (i) scholars' lack of familiarity with children's learning environments, as L2 writing research has us...

During the last two decades a growing body of SLA research has begun to explore how the act of writing and the processing of feedback may play a role in the development of second language capacities by means of fostering crucial language learning processes, such as noticing, hypothesis testing, and metalinguistic thinking. However, while most of th...

RESUMEN En este trabajo presentamos una serie de consideraciones prácticas sobre la elaboración y el empleo del portafolios del estudiante como alternativa metodológica en la enseñanza universitaria. Delimitamos, en primer lugar, lo que se entiende por portafolios y señalamos las principales ventajas e inconvenientes que se le atribuyen. Describimo...

Framed in a cognitively-oriented strand of research on corrective feedback (CF) in SLA, the controlled three- stage (composition/comparison-noticing/revision) study reported in this paper investigated the effects of two forms of direct CF (error correction and reformulation) on noticing and uptake, as evidenced in the written output produced by a g...

In the last two decades numerous studies have been conducted to document the language learning gains in a second language (L2) thought to be prompted by study abroad (SA) programs. Although different research syntheses have been attempted to take stock of the findings involved, no review to date has been conducted with a view to analyze those studi...