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Nobuhiro Kamiya – Language Teaching Research, 2025
In this study, 118 native speakers of Japanese watched 48 separate video clips in which a teacher provided recasts on phonological or lexical errors to students in Portuguese, a language with which the participants were unfamiliar. In the video clips, six recast characteristics were manipulated: length, segmentation (segmented/whole), prosodic…
Descriptors: Japanese, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Aubrey, Scott; Lambert, Craig; Leeming, Paul – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Research on pre-task planning to date has mainly focused on task performance. However, the effects of planning are contingent on what learners actually do during planning time. One important factor that may determine the quality and usefulness of planning is whether it is done in the first language (L1) or the second language (L2). This research…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis, Problem Solving
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Saito, Yukie; Saito, Kazuya – Language Teaching Research, 2017
The current study examined in depth the effects of suprasegmental-based instruction on the global (comprehensibility) and suprasegmental (word stress, rhythm, and intonation) development of Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). Students in the experimental group (n = 10) received a total of three hours of instruction over six…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Japanese
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Hinenoya, Kimiko; Lyster, Roy – Language Teaching Research, 2015
The present study investigated the effects of instruction on the use of the definite article "the" by Japanese learners of English by implementing two instructional treatments that varied in the extent to which they emphasized identifiability and accessibility. One instructional treatment, referred to as the traditional (TR) treatment,…
Descriptors: Japanese, Native Speakers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Shintani, Natsuko – Language Teaching Research, 2011
The study reported in this article investigated the comparative effects of two types of treatment--one of which emphasized input and the other output--on the vocabulary acquisition of young EFL learners. In the input-based instruction, the students were not required to produce output whereas in the production-based instruction the students were…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Development, Linguistic Input
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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