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Verbal reports (e.g. think-aloud protocols and stimulated recall) have been established as an important data collection method in SLA research because they have the potential for capturing learners’ cognitive processes as they process language. Many strands of SLA research have utilised some form of verbal reports, including studies of lexical inferencing (Cooper, 1999; Nassaji, 2003; […]

The categorisation of words into classes, such as noun, verb, and adjective is a complex process that involves parsing the input for morphological, syntactic, and semantic cues.2 Morphological cues encompass both derivations and inflections; while derivational morphemes can change the lexical category of a base word (e.g. indicate – indication), inflectional morphemes serve to identify […]

Research on lexical inferencing (i.e. learners’ use of cognitive strategies and knowledge sources in comprehending unfamiliar vocabulary in texts) has provided some insights into word class knowledge in the L2 context. Lee and Wolf (1997) embedded nonsense words in authentic reading passages in order to determine whether L2 learners of Spanish are sensitive to the […]

For lETCs this means navigating between discourses of a student and teacher in training, while being evaluated in a staged situation as a ‘real’ teacher. In this process, teacher candidates develop a language-based strategy that they utilise during their teaching placements in schools, as well as for purposes of negotiating and nurturing classroom relations with […]

It has been clearly stated by linguists that the meaning of what is said or written is culture bound, which necessitates that semantics be analysed and understood through a sociocultural perspective (Jaszczolt, 2001). We affirm Sperber (1996, p. 39) by stating that as educators working with a diverse student body we must go ‘beyond mere […]