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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
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
Menking, Scott – 2001
One of the current approaches to teaching second languages is the communicative approach. To improve the use of this approach in Shimane, Japan, it is necessary to discover the extent to which it is being used and what is hindering its use. This study examined the situation by asking native and non-native English postsecondary instructors to…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Conversational Language Courses, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Griffee, Dale T. – 1994
In the context of generating research on student-generated goals, this paper asks: (1) whether Japanese students studying in Japan can articulate their own learning goals for a university level, general conversation course; and (2) what procedures are helpful in student goal setting. Subjects were 50 second year Japanese English conversation…
Descriptors: College Second Language Programs, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Conversational Language Courses
Burden, Peter – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
This paper reports on a questionnaire survey carried out in the first and last classes of a single semester English "conversation" class at a national university in Japan. While the time frame is obviously limited, the project focuses on changes in attitude to using the Learners' Mother Tongue displayed by students with regards to use by…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods