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Sugene Kim – Language Awareness, 2025
This study employed a mixed-methods approach to explore the attitudes of second language (L2) learners and L2 teachers toward the use of learners' first language (L1) in L2 classrooms. Interview data were collected from Japanese college students (n = 91) and their English teachers (n = 9) to identify salient themes related to the reasons for…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shungo Suzuki; Judit Kormos – Language Testing, 2025
The current study examined the extent to which first language (L1) utterance fluency measures can predict second language (L2) fluency and how L2 proficiency moderates the relationship between L1 and L2 fluency. A total of 104 Japanese-speaking learners of English completed different argumentative speech tasks in their L1 and L2. Their speaking…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
Shu-Ling Wu; Takako Nunome; Jun Wang – Second Language Research, 2024
As Chinese shows both satellite- and verb-framed properties (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2012, 2016), it provides a unique lens through which to observe the extent of first-language (L1) typological influence in second language (L2) acquisition of motion expressions. This study has dual purposes. First, it extends Wu's (2016) investigation on motion…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Miki Satori – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This study investigated the relative contributions of English morphological and vocabulary knowledge to second language (L2) reading comprehension among 100 adult Japanese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The study also investigated the extent to which the roles of morphological and vocabulary knowledge in L2 reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tam, Chui Ling – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2023
Group-level self-regulation significantly impacts online collaborative learning performance (Panadero & Järvelä, 2015). Recently, online collaborative learning has been actively implemented in English language education in Japan, and group-level self-regulation, closely related to online collaborative learning, attracts the attention of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Abe, Makoto – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
How online interactants advance their talk in written interactions has been extensively investigated in different areas, including language learning. Applying a conversation analysis technique, this study examined how second language (L2) learners managed topics in L2 task-based text-chat interactions and the effects of L2 proficiency on their…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Proficiency, Discourse Analysis
Yuko Hayashi; Yusuke Kondo; Yutaka Ishii – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
Purpose: This study builds a new system for automatically assessing learners' speech elicited from an oral discourse completion task (DCT), and evaluates the prediction capability of the system with a view to better understanding factors deemed influential in predicting speaking proficiency scores and the pedagogical implications of the system.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Japanese
Sihui Ke; Xuehong He; Guihua Zhao – SAGE Open, 2024
It is generally agreed that first language (L1) morphological awareness, the ability to reflect upon, analyze and manipulate morphemes and morphological structure of words, can transfer and facilitate second language (L2) reading subskill acquisition. However, the facilitative role of L1 morphological awareness is unclear in the literature…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Hitoshi Nishizawa – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many studies evidence the flexibility of speech perception in the first language (L1), which allows rapid adaptation to unfamiliar foreign accents. Two influential studies by Bradlow and Bent (2008) and a follow-up study by Baese-Berk et al. (2013) found that increased variability as a function of the number of talkers and accents facilitated the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Auditory Perception, Pronunciation
Bohyon Chung; Hyun Kyung Miki Bong – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This paper examined whether a younger starting age of formal instruction on a foreign language is beneficial in expanding circle countries. An experimental study was designed to examine to what extent the five varieties of English language teachers are intelligible to Japanese- (JSLs) and Korean-speaking language learners (KSLs), who have…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Kato, Makiko – English Language Teaching, 2021
The study examined the impact of a first language's summarizing skill and second language vocabulary size on summary performances in a second language. A total of 40 English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners from a Japanese university with a mixed level of English language proficiency were asked to write a summary in English (i.e., their…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Vocabulary Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Nakata, Yoshiyuki; Nitta, Ryo; Tsuda, Atsuko – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
The present paper aims to explore how a certain class mode emerges in the context of collaborative learning, which affects student motivation and learning. Multiple sources of data were collected from 51 high school students in three different classes (named A, B and C) where the same teacher gave them the same lesson content throughout a full…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Saito, Kazuya; Tran, Mai; Suzukida, Yui; Sun, Hui; Magne, Viktoria; Ilkan, Meltem – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2019
The current study examines how second language (L2) users differentially assess the comprehensibility (i.e., ease of understanding) of foreign-accented speech according to a range of background variables, including first language (L1) profiles, L2 proficiency, age, experience, familiarity, and metacognition. A total of 110 L2 listeners first…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Listening Comprehension, Native Language, Language Proficiency
Tomoko Ishii; Phil Bennett; Tim Stoeckel – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021
The choice of word counting units (i.e. word family, flemma, or lemma) is of great importance in vocabulary list and test creation, as there are assumptions underpinning the use of each. Flemma-based counting assumes that if a learner can understand the meaning of a word in one part of speech (POS), they can also understand its meaning when the…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Word Lists, College Students, Barriers
Noda, Mamiko; O'Regan, John P. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2020
This article focuses upon the Japanese government's decision in 2009 to direct an 'English-only' strategy for English language education in senior high schools from 2013. In the "Course of Study 2009," and more recently again in the "Course of Study 2018," the Japanese government implicitly blames the local grammar-translation…
Descriptors: Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction