What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, but does that apply to others as well? I found out that: Interleaved practice could create undesirable difficulty for low-achievers. Blocked practice can help low-achievers build initial declarative knowledge. doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

Fully open access! Manuscripts on CALL, AI in language learning, use of technology (e.g., eye tracking) in research are all welcome.

Open Access! Our new article has just been out from SSLA!! ----- First language effects on incidental vocabulary learning through bimodal input | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3W1GhDw

Great to see that #SLRF will return in 2025, hosted by NAU!! sites.google.com/nau.edu/slrf20…

Confs: Vocab@Maryland: Hosted by the Second Language Acquisition program at the University of Maryland, the conference aims to bring together global vocabulary researchers to share ideas and thoughts about various vocabulary-related research topics such… dlvr.it/TBDnVg

We also host a summer school.

Ever wondered how Registered Reports differ from the regular literature? Some great work has been done on this (eg by Anne Scheel Daniël Lakens Courtney Soderberg) & I'd like to also highlight recent work of Aoife O'Mahony whose PhD thesis you can download here! orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/1676…

Collocation in the Mind: Investigating Collocational Priming in Second Language Speakers of Italian onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Reporting Eye-Tracking Research in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism: A Synthesis and Field-Specific Guidelines doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

Just out: Open Science in Applied Linguistics (edited by Plonsky, 2024). Freely downloadable on the ALP site here: appliedlinguisticspress.org/home/catalog/p…

We published a short response article to Winke's Letter!! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

One more week to submit your abstract to us for a special issue of Research Methods in Applied Linguistics on online experimentation: …ect-com.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/journal/resear… John Rogers

📚Are you a reader like Dr Marie-Josee Bisson and I? In today's re-post, I interviewed Dr Ana Pellicer-Sanchez about how we learn vocabulary through reading - including subtitles! 🔗languagescientists.dmu.ac.uk/s1-e3-tired-of… #LANGUAGE #Read #podcast #sciencecommunication

R1s should act like R1s. Have a publishing program and run open access journals... At this point, for-profit publishers are really hindering scientific advances. UMD Libraries UMD Research

Publication in Language Learning (Uchihara, Saito, Kurokawa, Takizawa, & Suzukida, 2024: Open Access) Kazuya Saito K. Takizawa Yui Suzukida A new attempt to re-conceptualize the construct of aural vocabulary knowledge for listening. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/la…

Call for proposals for SSLA's 2026 special issue here! docs.google.com/document/d/1Xy…

IRIS REPLICATION AWARD 2024 £300 will be awarded to a published (or accepted) self-labeled replication study that has used (or adapted) materials held on IRIS. Deadline: midnight (GMT) on 30th November 2024 iris-database.org/assets/IRIS_Re…

A friend of mine at UMD, Sunhee Kim Fujii, is looking for native speakers of Korean who live in the US for her dissertation study! If eligible, please consider signing up to participate via: go.hawaii.edu/cRa. Please feel free to contact Sunhee directly at [email protected].