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Tracking ‘learning behaviours’ in the incidental acquisition of two dimensional adjectives by Japanese beginner learners of L2 English

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Shintani, Natsuko, Ellis, Rod·2014·Language Teaching Research
DOI 10.1177/1362168813519885
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The purpose of this article is to examine both the process and product of vocabulary learning in a task-based instructional context. The article reports a study that investigated the acquisition of two dimensional adjectives (‘big’ and ‘small’) by six-year-old Japanese children who were complete beginners. It tracked the ‘learning behaviours’ that occurred in the classroom interactions involving the use of these adjectives in nine task-based lessons to show how these behaviours developed over time. It also collected test data to establish whether the learners had developed the receptive and productive knowledge required for the independent use of two adjectives. In this way, the study shows how second language (L2) learning evolves through interaction by exploring the relationships between the learners’ different learning behaviours and the differences in their test performance. The main finding was that differences in the success of the individual learners in acquiring productive control over the dimensional adjectives – as shown in the tests – was directly traceable to their learning behaviours in the task-based interactions.

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Authors
Shintani, N., & Ellis, R.
Affiliations
University of Auckland (NZ)
ORCID
Venue
Language Teaching Research
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2014-02-07
Volume
18
Issue
4
Pages
521-542
ISSN
  • 1362-1688 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-0954
DOI
10.1177/1362168813519885
OpenAlex
W2136507780
Cited by
24
References
35
Citations by year
2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2
FWCI
4.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Language Teaching Research (publishedVersion)
  • eSpace (Curtin University) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and Language Analysis
Keywords
incidental vocabulary learning, Japanese learners of English, second language vocabulary acquisition, task-based language teaching, learning behavior, classroom interaction, child language learners

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