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The Effects of L1 and L2 Group Discussions on L2 Reading Comprehension

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Turnbull, Blake; Evans, Moyra Sweetnam – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017

The aim of this study was to explore the effects of post-reading group discussions in both first (L1) and second (L2) languages on L2 reading comprehension. The participants were fifteen Japanese university students of intermediate-level English. Three cohorts read four English texts and produced individual written recalls. Group 1 (the control…

Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Recall (Psychology)

Language Choices and Pedagogic Functions in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Cross-Linguistic Functional Analysis of Teacher Talk

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Kim, Sun Hee Ok; Elder, Catherine – Language Teaching Research, 2005

This article examines the language choices made by native-speaker teachers of Japanese, Korean, German and French in foreign language (FL) classrooms in New Zealand secondary schools. It explores these teachers' patterns of alternation between English, the majority language, and the TL, using both AS-units (Analysis of Speech units), devised by…

Descriptors: Textbooks, Secondary Schools, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries