ISLA

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Across
  1. 3. Knowledge that can only be performed
  2. 5. The socioeconomic histories and circumstances of individuals
  3. 7. Knowledge of the language resources speakers use for pragmatic purposes
  4. 10. This is feedback on language as opposed to global feedback, which may focus on issues such as content or organization
  5. 15. The mental dictionary where humans store the words they have some knowledge of
  6. 17. Does not provide learners with explicit information about the target rules
  7. 18. Size, elaborateness, richness, and diversity of the learner’s linguistic L2 system
  8. 21. The amount of effort invested into a specific behaviour 
Demotivation Losing one’s motivation to accomplish something
Amotivation Lack of motivation
Ultimateattainment The eventual level of language proficiency attained by an individual lan- guage learner
  9. 22. Verbalisation of thinking processes in problem-solving activities
  10. 23. Finely attuned and dynamic assistance that is responsive to the learner’s needs
  11. 24. Degree to which a speaker’s L2 accent resembles that of a given speaker community
  12. 25. The dominant language in a society, which often has the status of an official language. In the US, English is the majority language
Down
  1. 1. Also known as ‘collocations’ or ‘chunks,’ these are multiword strings that function as a single unit or word
  2. 2. Learning without any intention to learn
Intentionallearning Learning with intent to learn
  3. 4. set of beliefs and principles used to teach a language
  4. 6. Degree of deviancy from a particular norm; deviations are usually characterized as errors
  5. 8. Knowledge of facts (semantic memory) and events (episodic memory)
  6. 9. Learning with awareness
Implicitlearning Learning without awareness
  7. 11. Presents learners with clear information about target grammatical rules
  8. 12. Aspects of students’ (and instructors’) lives that are meaningful to them and/or others in relation to their social worlds and histories
Community The groups of people in which students live, study, work, or play or aspire to do so
  9. 13. Ease, eloquence, and smoothness of speech or writing
  10. 14. Demonstrating the influence of a language other than the target language, often in relation to a range of values for acoustic measures or listeners’ rating based on a sample of imagined reference speakers.
  11. 16. A nondominant language in a particular society, which typically has lower status and less prestige than the dominant societal language
  12. 19. The process of creating procedural knowledge by incorporating elements of declarative knowledge into broader preexisting procedural rules
  13. 20. The gradual improvement in speed, error rate, and effort required that characterizes performance on repeatedly practice tasks