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Effects of Sound, Vocabulary, and Grammar Learning Aptitude on Adult Second Language Speech Attainment in Foreign Language Classrooms
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Saito, Kazuya – Language Learning, 2017
This study examines the relationship between different types of language learning aptitude (measured via the LLAMA test) and adult second language (L2) learners' attainment in speech production in English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms. Picture descriptions elicited from 50 Japanese EFL learners from varied proficiency levels were analyzed…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Adults, Speech Skills, English (Second Language)
The Effect of Pleasure Reading on Japanese University EFL Learners' Reading Rates
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Beglar, David; Hunt, Alan; Kite, Yuriko – Language Learning, 2012
Few second-language (L2) reading studies have examined the relationship between reading large amounts of text and fluency, and those studies that have tend to be problematic in terms of their designs and/or analyses. In order to address this lack of empirical L2 reading fluency research, this study investigates the effects of a 1-year pleasure…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate, Second Language Learning
Global Foreign Accent and Voice Onset Time Among Japanese EFL Speakers.
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Riney, Timothy J.; Takagi, Naoyuki – Language Learning, 1999
Investigated the correlation between global foreign accent (GFA) and voice onset time (VOT). VOT values for /p/, /t/, and /k/ were measured at two times, separated by an interval of 42 months. Subjects were 11 Japanese speakers of English as a foreign language; 5 age-matched native speakers of English served as the control group. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Dialects, English (Second Language)