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How Does Longitudinal Interaction Promote Second Language Speech Learning? Roles of Learner Experience and Proficiency Levels
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Saito, Kazuya; Suzuki, Shungo; Oyama, Tomoko; Akiyama, Yuka – Second Language Research, 2021
This study examined how longitudinal interaction impacts the development of second language (L2) oral proficiency in relation to learners' different experience and proficiency levels. Japanese learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) participated in weekly conversation exchanges with native speakers (NSs) in the USA via videoconferencing…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Native Speakers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
The Acquisitional Value of Recasts in Instructed Second Language Speech Learning: Teaching the Perception and Production of English /?/ to Adult Japanese Learners
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Saito, Kazuya – Language Learning, 2013
The current study investigated the impact of recasts together with form-focused instruction (FFI) on the development of second language speech perception and production of English /?/ by Japanese learners. Forty-five learners were randomly assigned to three groups--FFI recasts, FFI only, and Control--and exposed to four hours of communicatively…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Experimental Groups, Pronunciation, Auditory Perception
Examining the Role of Explicit Phonetic Instruction in Native-Like and Comprehensible Pronunciation Development: An Instructed SLA Approach to L2 Phonology
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Saito, Kazuya – Language Awareness, 2011
This paper reports on an instructed second language acquisition study that investigated the effects of explicit phonetic instruction on second language pronunciation by adopting two different outcome measurements (i.e. a rubric of accentedness as well as comprehensibility). Twenty native Japanese learners of English in ESL (English as a second…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Phonetics, English (Second Language)
Investigating the Pedagogical Potential of Recasts for L2 Vowel Acquisition
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Saito, Kazuya; Lyster, Roy – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2012
Whereas second language (L2) education research has extensively examined how different types of interactional feedback can be facilitative of L2 development in meaning-oriented classrooms, most of these primary studies have focused on recasts (i.e., teachers' reformulations of students' errors). Some researchers have claimed that recasts serve an…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Teaching Methods, Native Speakers, English (Second Language)