Florence Myles
List of John Benjamins publications in which Florence Myles is involved.
Yearbook
ISSN 1568-1491 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9749
Title
EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 8 (2008)
Edited by Leah Roberts, Florence Myles and Annabelle David
The annual conference of the European Second Language Association provides an opportunity for the presentation of second language research with a genuinely European flavour. The theoretical perspectives adopted are wide-ranging and may fall within traditions overlooked elsewhere. Moreover, the… read more[EUROSLA Yearbook, 8] 2008. 311 pp.
2022 Attitudes and motivation towards learning French in primary school: The role of developmental changes between the ages of 5 and 7 Language Teaching for Young Learners 4:2, pp. 240–263 | Article
Young children have often been shown to be highly motivated towards learning foreign languages in primary school, but for their enthusiasm to decrease during secondary schooling. Many reasons have been put forward, such as novelty wearing off, teaching styles, or societal and peer pressure.… read more
2020 Supporting foreign languages in an Anglophone world: Implementation challenges in English primary schools National foreign language policies for primary schools: Global perspectives, Enever, Janet (ed.), pp. 213–239 | Article
Foreign language (FL) learning in English primary schools, statutory provision for most schools since 2014, has been characterised by distinct challenges. The first issue, peculiar to Anglophone settings, concerns how language learning is valued when ubiquitous English learning rationales of… read more
2015 The importance of task variability in the design of learner corpora for SLA research International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 1:1, pp. 58–95 | Article
This cross-sectional study investigates task variability focusing on the use of Spanish past tense morphology in a spoken learner corpus. Sixty L2 learners of Spanish (English L1) from three different proficiency levels (20 per group) and fifteen native speakers completed three communicative tasks… read more
2013 Foreword Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, García Mayo, María del Pilar, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián (eds.), pp. xi–xiii | Foreword
2012 Complexity, accuracy and fluency: The role played by formulaic sequences in early interlanguage development Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA, Housen, Alex, Folkert Kuiken and Ineke Vedder (eds.), pp. 71–94 | Article
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate how complexity, accuracy and fluency interact in early L2 development, when learners’ linguistic means are underdeveloped. Learners then resort to rote-learned formulaic sequences to complement their current grammar when it is unable to meet their… read more
2008 SPLLOC: A new database for Spanish second language acquisition research EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 8 (2008), Roberts, Leah, Florence Myles and Annabelle David (eds.), pp. 287–304 | Article
The contribution of Spanish to the field of SLA continues to grow (Lafford & Salaberry 2003; Montrul 2004), and the need for good L2 Spanish datasets is becoming increasingly evident. In this paper we introduce a newly created database titled Spanish Learner Language Oral Corpus (SPLLOC),… read more
2007 Using electronic corpora in SLA research French Applied Linguistics, Ayoun, Dalila (ed.), pp. 377–400 | Article