ISLA

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Across
  1. 5. Finely attuned and dynamic assistance that is responsive to the learner’s needs
  2. 10. Size, elaborateness, richness, and diversity of the learner’s linguistic L2 system
  3. 11. Presents learners with clear information about target grammatical rules
  4. 13. The dominant language in a society, which often has the status of an official language. In the US, English is the majority language
  5. 15. Learning without any intention to learn
Intentionallearning Learning with intent to learn
  6. 16. The process of creating procedural knowledge by incorporating elements of declarative knowledge into broader preexisting procedural rules
  7. 18. 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
  8. 22. Knowledge of the language resources speakers use for pragmatic purposes
  9. 24. Degree of deviancy from a particular norm; deviations are usually characterized as errors
Down
  1. 1. The socioeconomic histories and circumstances of individuals
  2. 2. Degree to which a speaker’s L2 accent resembles that of a given speaker community
  3. 3. The mental dictionary where humans store the words they have some knowledge of
  4. 4. 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.
  5. 6. Learning with awareness
Implicitlearning Learning without awareness
  6. 7. Ease, eloquence, and smoothness of speech or writing
  7. 8. Also known as ‘collocations’ or ‘chunks,’ these are multiword strings that function as a single unit or word
  8. 9. Knowledge that can only be performed
  9. 12. Does not provide learners with explicit information about the target rules
  10. 14. A nondominant language in a particular society, which typically has lower status and less prestige than the dominant societal language
  11. 17. The gradual improvement in speed, error rate, and effort required that characterizes performance on repeatedly practice tasks
  12. 19. 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
  13. 20. Knowledge of facts (semantic memory) and events (episodic memory)
  14. 21. This is feedback on language as opposed to global feedback, which may focus on issues such as content or organization
  15. 23. Verbalisation of thinking processes in problem-solving activities