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Kanako Tabuchi; Sho Kobayashi; Steve T. Fukuda; Yuya Nakagawa – Technology in Language Teaching & Learning, 2024
Second language learners, particularly those with lower proficiency, often struggle with insufficient practice and heightened anxiety when speaking. This case study investigates the impact of one-on-one online conversation lessons on a university student's speaking skills and language anxiety. The participant, a university student with low…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Speech Skills, Electronic Learning, Computer Mediated Communication
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Peterson, Jeff – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
This study's goal was to determine if appropriately designed, completely virtual formats of language courses are able to engender in students speaking ability progress comparable to that fostered within traditional face-to-face (F2F) classrooms. The study further sought to clarify language learners' perceptions of online Japanese courses. The…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Japanese, Language Proficiency, Conversational Language Courses
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Hetrovicz, Lauren – Foreign Language Annals, 2021
According to the functional model proposed by Sampasivam and Clément in 2014, the two determinants that build towards second language confidence (L2C) are "richness and self-involvement" of the contact experience. This study adds to previous research by investigating, for the first time, the role of interlocutor type in the context of…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish
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Farrokh, Parisa; Sharifi, Fatemeh – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The present investigation was an attempt to study the effect of using compensation and determination strategies on Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners' vocabulary development. The question which the present study was trying to answer was: Do compensation and determination strategies have any statistically significant effects on Iranian upper-…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Foreign Countries
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Sara Fernández Cuenca; Sean Michael Muller – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2021
Language interaction has been shown to positively impact second language development (Long, 1996). However, whereas research that examined interactionist approaches to second language acquisition (Gass & Mackey, 2006) has meticulously studied how different factors in the interaction (interactional context, type of task, etc) may affect L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Task Analysis
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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