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Location:	United States
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	90
Instruments:	Test, Questionnaire
Method of analysis:	collocational knowledge of the 3 groups of students on high-low-frequency items was examined - descriptive statistics - a repeated measures ANOVA - partial eta squared (effect size) - t-test
Other aspects:	preposition test
Research design:	Quasi-experimental research
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
Collocation; Preposition; Usage-based; Semantics; Polysemy; Chunks; Formulaic sequences

Location:	Japan
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	66
Instruments:	Task/ activity, Test
Method of analysis:	tests were scored - descriptive statistics - a two-way ANOVA was conducted to examine whether there was any difference in retention of the target words between 2 groups of students - a one-way ANOVA, post hoc test (Turkey HSD) were conducted between groups for the immediate and delayed tests
Other aspects:
Research design:	Quasi-experimental research
Level of detail:	High

Keywords:
Vocabulary acquisition; Collocation; Intentional learning

Location:	United States
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	40
Instruments:	Task/ activity
Method of analysis:	sensitivity to phonological and graphic features of L2 words of learners with different L1 orthographic backgrounds was examined - t-test - Pearson partial correlation coefficient
Other aspects:
Research design:
Level of detail:	Low

Keywords:
Graphic word recognition; Orthography; L2 lexical memory; L1 transfer; L2 word-form learning; L2 vocabulary

Location:	China
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	738
Instruments:	Questionnaire
Method of analysis:	- relationship between self-efficacy, anxiety, and writing performance was assessed - structural equation modelling techniques: confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), chi-square, normed chi-squared, root-mean-square residual statistic (RMR)
Other aspects:
Research design:	Survey research
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
Foreign language anxiety; Self-efficacy; Writing; Chinese EFL learners

Location:	Hong Kong
Type of subjects/data:	reviews
No. of subjects/data:	122 (93,000 words)
Instruments:
Method of analysis:	relationship between Reviews quality and verdicts was investigated: - descriptive analyses of the reviews: frequency, percentage - inter-reviewer agreement: Pearson correlation, Kappa - mean review length and manuscript length for the 3 verdict conditions - excessive length of manuscript and verdicts - methodology type
Other aspects:	interpretations of correlation magnitude
Research design:
Level of detail:	Low

Keywords:
Academic reviews; Small corpus; The journal System

Location:	Japan
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	81
Instruments:	Written report/ paper, Test, Task/ activity
Method of analysis:	epistemic stance used by learners was examined: - a measure of individual use: epistemic type score (the number of different epistemic types that learner used) - learner corpus analysis: keyword analysis
Other aspects:
Research design:	Quasi-experimental research
Level of detail:	High

Keywords:
L2 pragmatics, epistemic stance, explicit instruction, implicit instruction

Location:	United States
Type of subjects/data:	Indian women
No. of subjects/data:	19
Instruments:	Journal/diary, Interview
Method of analysis:	conversation analysis
Other aspects:
Research design:	Discourse research
Level of detail:	Low

Keywords:
hypothetical narrative, conversation analysis, societal discourse

Location:	More than one country
Type of subjects/data:	adult learners, teachers
No. of subjects/data:	145, 14
Instruments:	Audio-recordings, Video recordings
Method of analysis:	conversation analysis
Other aspects:
Research design:
Level of detail:	Low

Keywords:
classroom language, talk-in-interaction, multiple responses

Location:	United Kingdom
Type of subjects/data:	essays
No. of subjects/data:	200
Instruments:
Method of analysis:	- direct metaphors and implicit metaphors used in the essays were identified - metaphoric density of the texts produced by different levels of learners was calculated - a series of Mann-Whitney U-tests were established to examine whether there are many differences in metaphor use across different levels - a serch for metaphor clusters was conducted using a time series analysis - the percentage of errors that involved metaphor was calculated to asess the role of L1 influence
Other aspects:	an adapted version of MIPVU Metaphor Identification procedure (Steen et al, 2010)
Research design:
Level of detail:	High

Keywords:
Metaphor; Writing; CEFR; Open-class metaphorical items; Closed-class metaphorical items

Location:	Korea (south)
Type of subjects/data:	teachers, students
No. of subjects/data:	N/A
Instruments:	Video recordings, Observation, Task/ activity
Method of analysis:	conversation analysis: repeats in meaning-and fluency contexts, repeats in form-and-accuracy contexts
Other aspects:
Research design:
Level of detail:	Low

Keywords:
conversation analysis; classroom interaction; repeats, repetition