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Location:	United States
Type of subjects/data:	Turkish immigrant, Native English Speakers
No. of subjects/data:	1, 3
Instruments:	Interview
Method of analysis:	dynamic systems approach
Other aspects:	Dynamic Systems Theory
Research design:	Longitudinal research
Level of detail:	High

Keywords:
complexity, accuracy, SLA, dynamic systems approach, linguistic development

Location:	France
Type of subjects/data:	anglophone near-native users of French
No. of subjects/data:	20
Instruments:	Test, Task/ activity, Questionnaire, Interview
Method of analysis:	- test was scored - data from the interview were examined - pearson correlations were conducted to determine relationship between different variables
Other aspects:	- lexico-grammatical test - linguistic background questionnaire
Research design:
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
proficiency, French, anglophone adult learners, native-likeness

Location:	United States
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	25
Instruments:	Written report/ paper
Method of analysis:	- instances of hyposegmentation and hypersegmentation in writing samples were analysed. - instances of unconventional segmentation were compared across students, languages, and grade levels
Other aspects:
Research design:	Longitudinal research
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
unconventional segmentation, hyposegmentation, hypersegmentation, bilingual students

Location:	China
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	300
Instruments:	Test
Method of analysis:	- growth in vocabulary breadth knowledge and development of vocabulary fluency at different levels were measured. - vocabulary fluency among groups with different and similar vocabulary breadth knowledge were compared. - vocabulary fluency development after full breadth knowledge is acquired was measured. *statistical tests used in the analysis: means, standard deviation, ANOVAs, Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) post hoc tests, two-step cluster analysis with Schwarz's Bayesian Criterion
Other aspects:
Research design:	Longitudinal research
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
vocabulary breadth knowledge, vocabulary fluency

Location:	United Kingdom
Type of subjects/data:	Corpus (BAWE)
No. of subjects/data:	1 (5,770,728 words)
Instruments:
Method of analysis:	- a high-frequency vocabulary list for students from different disciplines and at different stages of academic study was created. - the degree to which these vocabulary are overlapped was determined. - clusters of student groups with shared vocabulary needs were identified.
Other aspects:	- open-source statistical package R
Research design:
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
vocabulary, academic vocabulary, specialized vocabulary, BAWE

Location:	Spain
Type of subjects/data:	students
No. of subjects/data:	160
Instruments:	Questionnaire, Test
Method of analysis:	- all narrative samples were transcribed - oral performance in terms of structural and lexical complexity, accuracy, and fluency was measured
Other aspects:	measures of oral performance
Research design:
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
age, input, early start, oral performance, fluency, lexical diversity, syntactic complexity, accuracy

Location:	Spain
Type of subjects/data:	early childhood learners/ native speakers of Spanish
No. of subjects/data:	50/ 20
Instruments:	Questionnaire, Interview, Test
Method of analysis:	the speeded- and non-speeded-response tests and language aptitude tests were scored by means of: - average aptitude scores - average response time - percentage accuracy scores *statistics: Cronbach's alpha, mean, sd, one sample K-S tests, z-scores, independent samples t-test, correlations, Levene's test, Cohen's d
Other aspects:	quantitative analysis methods
Research design:	Quasi-experimental research
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
language aptitude, SLA, early childhood learners, early bilinguals

Location:	France
Type of subjects/data:	anglophone near-native users of French
No. of subjects/data:	20
Instruments:	Test, Task/ activity, Questionnaire, Interview
Method of analysis:	- test was scored - data from the interview were examined - pearson correlations were conducted to determine relationship between different variables
Other aspects:	- lexico-grammatical test - linguistic background questionnaire
Research design:
Level of detail:	Medium

Keywords:
proficiency, French, anglophone adult learners, native-likeness

Location:	Sweden
Type of subjects/data:	scholars
No. of subjects/data:	15
Instruments:	Questionnaire, Interview, Document
Method of analysis:	content analysis
Other aspects:
Research design:	Case study
Level of detail:	High

Keywords:
Parallel language use, Language policy, Multilingual scholars, Writing for publication, Language choice

Location:	Germany
Type of subjects/data:	scholars
No. of subjects/data:	24
Instruments:	Interview
Method of analysis:	interview data was thematized
Other aspects:
Research design:
Level of detail:	Low

Keywords:
Language demands, Non-native English-speaking scholars, Academic writing, Disciplinary cultures, Interviewing, Language norms