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Timothy Doe – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Language learning activities involving time-pressured repetition of similar content have been shown to facilitate improvements in fluency. However, concerns have been voiced about whether these gains might be offset by reduced levels of grammatical accuracy. This descriptive study tracked the oral proficiency of 32 Japanese university students…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ng, Clarence – Modern Language Journal, 2021
The Vygotskian concept of "perezhivanie," or emotional lived experience, was adopted to examine the learner identities of 2 Japanese university students in English language learning. Current studies on language learner identities have given analytic primacy to either psychological processes or social influences. In contrast,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Electronic Publishing
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Kishi, Adrienne – English Teaching Forum, 2017
While written exercises may serve students adequately on tests, the structures they emphasize can remain elusive or difficult for students to master in conversation. Students tend to interpret their difficulty in applying what they have learned as a lack of language ability, and they can quickly lose confidence when speaking. Producing a target…
Descriptors: Conversational Language Courses, Language Proficiency, Language Fluency, Second Language Learning
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Odakura, Abigail – JALT CALL Journal, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the talking-pen device called the Mimic Me, an educational technology product of a large English conversation school in Japan, as an educational learning tool. The product will be reviewed in terms of its developmental appropriateness for the target audience based on current research. Although the Mimic Me…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Appropriate Technology, Vocabulary Development, Phrase Structure
Drakos, Joe – Online Submission, 2009
This is an English communication instruction system designed to teach children basic, easy to remember conversation strategies without the use of a textbook or to serve as a supplement learning system to a textbook. This English communication training method provides learners with concrete language patterns, a broad spectrum of vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Loucky, John Paul – Online Submission, 2006
For the past ten years, I have been using a basic framework to help my students grasp question and answer structures. I find that this enables them to develop their language skills quickly and increases their confidence in their conversational ability. Without mastering questions, learners can't even get to first base in terms of making a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Language Skills, Verbs