Second Language Research, Vol. 25, No. 2, Special Issue: 25th anniversary issue (April 2009), pp. 335-341 (7 pages) Lardiere suggests that second language acquisition (SLA) researchers should pay more ...

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 34, No. 2, High-Level L2 Acquisition, Learning, and Use (June 2012), pp. 269-290 (22 pages) This article reports on the design and use of a profiler for ...

When reading a passage, readers may pause at a particular word or return to reread it. Studies using eye-tracking, which record eye movements during reading, have suggested that word length, frequency ...

Word “edges” are important for language acquisition. Children start to learn the sound of words by remembering the first and last syllables. A new study sheds light on the information the infant brain ...

This week, ExpLing RG will discuss word learning, and word recognition and lexical representation. They will discuss the following papers: Fennell, C. T., Byers-Heinlein, K. and Werker, J. F. (2007), ...

Music is often considered a universal language, as it crosses language barriers and connects people all over the world with ease. In fact, songs are popularly used in foreign language classrooms as a ...

During English reading, readers may occasionally struggle with particular words or feel the need to reread them. Researchers at University of Tsukuba analyzed eye-tracking data to determine whether ...