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Language Teaching Research Quarterly

European Journal of Studies in Management and Business

International Journal of Behavior Studies in Organizations

Studies in Educational Management

New Challenges in Accounting and Finance

Language Testing in Focus: An International Journal

Marketing and Branding Research

Individual Differences in Language Education: An International Journal 

Feedback Research in Second Language 

Management Issues in Healthcare System

Language Teacher Education Research

Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Development

<p style="text-align:justify;">In this paper, the role and nature of language and&nbsp;language development will be discussed. Research and theory in second language&nbsp;acquisition has demonstrated that (i) language is an abstract, implicit and&nbsp;complex system. Input (ii) plays a key role in language development; despite&nbsp;the fact that some knowledge of language is innate (iii). Overall, language&nbsp;development (iv) is ordered and stage-like and instruction (v) has a limited&nbsp;role. Theoretical and pedagogical implications will be highlighted.</p>

What is the Role and Nature of Language and Language Development?

Original Research 

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<p style="text-align:justify;">Does instruction make&nbsp;a difference? This was the original question of a paper written by Michael Long&nbsp;(1983) in the 80s. Since then, scholars and practitioners have been debating on&nbsp;whether instruction makes a difference in the acquisition of language&nbsp;properties such as morphology and syntax. Contemporary theories have addressed&nbsp;this question by taking different positions around the role and effects of&nbsp;instruction. Researchers have investigated the effects of a number of different&nbsp;instructional treatments (e.g., textual enhancement, processing instruction,&nbsp;recasts). Overall, the main findings from empirical research on the effects of&nbsp;instruction seem to indicate that there are two main positions: (i) instruction&nbsp;has a limited and constrained role; (ii) instruction might have some beneficial&nbsp;effects (not on the route but on the rate of acquisition). Several key questions (VanPatten, Smith, &amp; Benati, 2019) have been raised in this field&nbsp;about the nature and role of instruction and on what we really measure with&nbsp;instruction (explicit or implicit knowledge?).</p>

The Role of Instruction: An Update

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