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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
Miki Satori – Language Learning Journal, 2024
This study examines the knowledge representation of Japanese university students assessed using grammaticality judgement tests (GJTs) and a metalinguistic knowledge test (MKT). The study also investigates the role of automatised and non-automatised explicit knowledge in general L2 language proficiency. Participants were 87 late learners of English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Kida, Shusaku – Second Language Research, 2022
The type of processing-resource allocation (TOPRA) model predicts that the semantic processing of new second language (L2) words can impede the learning of their forms while structural processing can promote it. Using this framework, the present study examined the effects of processing type (semantic, structural, control), exposure frequency (one…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Reading Processes, Word Frequency
Qiao Wang; Ralph L. Rose; Ayaka Sugawara; Naho Orita – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2025
VocQGen is an automated tool designed to generate multiple-choice cloze (MCC) questions for vocabulary assessment in second language learning contexts. It leverages several natural language processing (NLP) tools and OpenAI's GPT-4 model to produce MCC items quickly from user-specified word lists. To evaluate its effectiveness, we used the first…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Skills, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Software, Multiple Choice Tests
Jonathan Trace – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2023
The role of context in cloze tests has long been seen as both a benefit as well as a complication in their usefulness as a measure of second language comprehension (Brown, 2013). Passage cohesion, in particular, would seem to have a relevant and important effect on the degree to which cloze items function and the interpretability of performances…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Cloze Procedure, Connected Discourse, Test Items
In'nami, Yo; Koizumi, Rie – International Journal of Listening, 2022
To better understand the relationship between second-language (L2) listening comprehension and metacognitive awareness, we examined the moderating effects of listening tests and learner samples while focusing on aspects of metacognitive awareness. Students of English-as-a-foreign-language at a Japanese university (n = 75; the 2019 cohort) took the…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Takimoto, Masahiro – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2023
This study investigated the relationship between a metaphor-based approach to teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) and involvement of the brain's right hemisphere. Specifically, it examined learners' understanding of three levels of sureness associated with different expressions in English -- those that are "certain,"…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Figurative Language, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
Raymond Stubbe; Kosuke Nakashima – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2020
Laufer (1988) introduced the concept of synform errors, where second language (L2) learners confuse a word for a different but similar looking or sounding L2 word. Stubbe and Cochrane (2016) reported that of 1,187 commonly repeated errors on a Japanese to English non-contextual translation test, 461 were synform errors (39%). This study introduces…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Shingo Nahatame – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study is an extension of Nahatame's (2018) research that demonstrated the effects of causal and semantic relations between sentences on second language (L2) text processing. Employing eye tracking, this study aimed to examine whether these effects appear during more natural, uninterrupted reading processes and to identify the time course of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Reading Rate, Attribution Theory
Kanazawa, Yu – SAGE Open, 2021
Emotion plays important roles in learning, memory, and other cognitive processes; it does so not only in the form of "macro-level emotion" (e.g., salient affective states and self-reportable motivational currents) but also in the form of "micro-level emotion" (e.g., subtle feelings and linguistic attributes that are usually…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Learning Processes, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing
Sato, Takeshi; Lai, Yuda; Burden, Tyler – ReCALL, 2021
The present study aims to verify the impact of dynamic aids on learning L2 prepositions in relation to individual learner variables. Situated within the cognitive linguistics (CL) framework and differing from previous research, the present study hypothesizes that dynamic (animated) aids are not equally effective for all learners; rather, their…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Raymond Stubbe; Yumiko Cochrane – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2019
One of the many challenges facing Japanese university students studying English is the multi-word phrase. The English language contains a large number of such multiple-word items, which act as single words with a single meaning. This study is concerned with evaluating the efficacy of yes/no checklist tests to assess knowledge of multi-word units.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Word Lists, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
Joyce, Paul – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2019
Listening has been widely characterised as a multifaceted process encompassing a range of linguistic and psycholinguistic components (see Rubin, 1994). However, for learners at different levels of L2 proficiency, there is uncertainty over the relative importance of the various sub-skills. To address this issue, a number of linguistic and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Language Tests
Strong, Brian; Boers, Frank – Modern Language Journal, 2019
English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) textbooks and internet resources exhibit various formats and implementations of exercises on phrasal verbs. The experimental study reported here examines whether some of these might be more effective than others. EFL learners at a university in Japan were randomly assigned to 4 treatment groups. Two groups were…
Descriptors: Verbs, Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Feedback (Response)
He, Lianzhen; Chen, Dajian – Language Testing in Asia, 2017
Background: The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) developed by Council of Europe has been gaining popularity since its publication in 2001, and reshaping the practice in language teaching, learning and assessment not only across the European continent but also in many other places such as Japan (CEFR-J project). Some pioneering work…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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