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Overview

Shawn Loewen is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research work spans multiple fields including Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Computer Science, with a focus on language learning and educational contexts.

The main fields of study for Loewen include:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Psychology
  • Computer Science

The subfields addressed in their publications cover:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Literature and Literary Theory
  • Education
  • Artificial Intelligence

Loewen's research topics are centered on language acquisition and pedagogical methods, including:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Educational Assessment and Improvement
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Mobile Learning in Education
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques

Significant publications authored or co-authored by Loewen include:

  • The effectiveness of app-based language instruction for developing receptive linguistic knowledge and oral communicative ability, 2020, Foreign Language Annals
  • Small Samples in Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research, 2021, Modern Language Journal

Other notable papers in the broader research context, reflecting the kind of scholarship Loewen engages with, include:

  • The Research-Practice Dialogue in Second Language Learning and Teaching: Past, Present, and Future, 2022, Modern Language Journal
  • Coming of age: the past, present, and future of quantitative SLA research, 2020, Language Teaching
  • Methodological Synthesis of Cluster Analysis in Second Language Research, 2020, Language Learning

Frequent collaborators in Loewen's research include:

  • Masatoshi Sato
  • Matt Kessler
  • Daniel Trego
  • Hyun-Bin Hwang
  • Matthew D. Coss

Publication venues where Loewen's work frequently appears reflect a focus on language and education:

  • Modern Language Journal
  • Language Teaching
  • Foreign Language Annals
  • Language Learning
  • ELT Journal

Loewen has contributed to book literature with the publication of A Practical Guide to Second Language Teaching and Learning, released by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Implicit and Explicit Corrective Feedback and the Acquisition of L2 Grammar.

    Roderick Ellis;Shawn Loewen;Rosemary Erlam

  • Learner Uptake in Communicative ESL Lessons

    Rod Ellis;Helen Basturkmen;Shawn Loewen

  • Teachers' Stated Beliefs about Incidental Focus on Form and their Classroom Practices

    Helen Basturkmen;Shawn Loewen;Rod Ellis

  • Doing focus-on-form

    Rod Ellis;Helen Basturkmen;Shawn Loewen

  • Recasts in the Adult English L2 Classroom: Characteristics, Explicitness, and Effectiveness

    Shawn Loewen;Jenefer Philp

  • Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Learning, Testing and Teaching

    Rod Ellis;Rod Ellis;Shawn Loewen;Catherine Elder;Rosemary Erlam

  • Preemptive Focus on Form in the ESL Classroom

    Rod Ellis;Helen Basturkmen;Shawn Loewen

  • INCIDENTAL FOCUS ON FORM AND SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING

    Shawn Loewen

  • Second Language Learners' Beliefs About Grammar Instruction and Error Correction

    Shawn Loewen;Shaofeng Li;Fei Fei;Amy Thompson

  • Uptake in Incidental Focus on Form in Meaning‐Focused ESL Lessons

    Shawn Loewen

  • Mobile-assisted language learning: A Duolingo case study

    Shawn Loewen;Dustin Crowther;Daniel R. Isbell;Kathy Minhye Kim

  • Interaction and Instructed Second Language Acquisition.

    Shawn Loewen;Masatoshi Sato

  • Corrective feedback in the chatroom: An experimental study

    Shawn Loewen;Rosemary Erlam

  • Key Concepts in Second Language Acquisition

    Shawn Loewen;Hayo Reinders

  • The Routledge handbook of instructed second language acquisition

    Shawn Loewen;Masatoshi Sato

  • An A–Z of Applied Linguistics Research Methods

    Shawn Loewen;Luke Plonsky

  • Metalanguage in Focus on Form in the Communicative Classroom

    Helen Basturkmen;Shawn Loewen;Rod Ellis

  • Do teachers care about research? The research–pedagogy dialogue

    Masatoshi Sato;Shawn Loewen

  • Variation in the frequency and characteristics of incidental focus on form

    Shawn Loewen

  • Introduction to Instructed Second Language Acquisition

    Shawn Loewen

  • Instructed Second Language Acquisition

    Shawn Loewen

Frequent Co-Authors

Rod Ellis
Rod Ellis Curtin University
Susan M. Gass
Susan M. Gass Michigan State University

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