David Wood

Our study, with Judit Kormos, that revisited task effects on L2 oral fluency from the perspective of speech processing demands is now published in the special issue of IRAL edited by Pauliina Peltonen & Clare Wright. Suzuki, S. & Kormos, J. (2026). L2 fluency across tasks: disentangling demands on conceptualisation and formulation in speech production. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 64(1), 7-34. doi.org/10.1515/iral-2…

Shintani, N., Ellis, R., & Suzuki, W. (2014). Effects of written feedback and revision on learners’ accuracy in using two English grammatical structures. Language Learning, 64(1), 103–131. doi.org/10.1111/lang.1…

📱📚 Can informal digital learning really boost EFL learners’ vocabulary? Our mixed‑methods study shows a strong positive link between IDLE and vocabulary knowledge—across practices, authenticity, support, and motivation. 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1080/095882…
#EFL #IDLE

The Modern Language Journal is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special collection on Research-Practice Partnerships. Read the full call for details: rb.gy/7gyy4q

Can ChatGPT generate reading materials across CEFR levels? In our new corpus-driven study, Nhat Ha Nguyen, @YenDang101 and I analysed 2M+ words of ChatGPT-generated texts (A1–C2). 📊Lexical demand increases across levels — but not always as expected. 📕doi.org/10.58304/ijts.…

😊🏫🗣️ 🔓 MacIntyre, P. D. (2026). Positive institutions for language learning. The Modern Language Journal. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1111/modl.7…

What should you call your academic event? Another great flowchart from PhD Comics.

Love the research process; hate the publication process

I see that CultureWorks no longer provides EAP at universities in Ontario. Goodbye to a profit driven outfit that deprofessionalized EAP and split it from its academic base and home. Universities need their own EAP units grounded in applied linguistics and TESL departments.

Moskowitz, S., & Dewaele, J. M. (2021). Is teacher happiness contagious? A study of the link between perceptions of language teacher happiness and student attitudes. Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 15(2), 117–130. doi.org/10.1080/175012…

Applications of Corpus Linguistics (Cambridge Applied Linguistics) amzn.asia/d/08QOtd5j

Emotions in classroom language learning: What can we learn from achievement emotion research?sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Svalberg, A. (2021). Engagement with language in relation to form-focused versus meaning-focused teaching and learning. In P. Hiver, A. Al-Hoorie, & S. Mercer (Eds.), Student engagement in the language classroom (pp. 38–55). Multilingual Matters. doi.org/10.21832/97817…

R.I.P. DUOLINGO. 3 years of Japanese. Nothing worked. ChatGPT did it in 7 weeks. Here are the 6 prompts I used :

New article: Faez, F., Karas, M., &  Ghaderi, A. (2026). Language teacher beliefs and teacher education programs: A 25-year methodological synthesis (2000-2024). Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 5(1), 100299: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Reading versus listening: Which one is more effective for incidental vocabulary learning? - Aliyar - The Modern Language Journal - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mo…

"dispersion and association measures positively influenced human evaluations" Spina et al. (in press). Developing a learner dictionary of collocations: description and evaluation of a multi-method approach doi.org/10.1515/cllt-2…

The Difference Between "Significant" and "Not Significant" is not Itself Statistically Significant

A billion-dollar donation: estimating the cost of researchers’ time spent on peer review

@NC_Renic Retirement.

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