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Direct linkAllen, David; Nakamura, Keita – Language Testing, 2023
Although there is abundant evidence for the use of first-language (L1) knowledge by bilinguals when using a second language (L2), investigation into the impact of L1 knowledge in large-scale L2 language assessments and discussion of how such impact may be controlled has received little attention in the language assessment literature. This study…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
Sumioka, Norihiko; Williams, Atsuko; Yamada, Jun – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2016
A list number recall test in English (L2) was administered to both Japanese (L1) students with beginning-level English proficiency who attended evening high school and Japanese college students with intermediate-level English proficiency. The major findings were that, only for the high school group, the small numbers 1 and 2 in middle positions of…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Correlation, Japanese, Bilingualism
Mori, Yoshiko; Calder, Toshiko M. – Foreign Language Annals, 2015
This study investigates the role of motivation and learner variables in bilingual vocabulary development among first language (L1) Japanese students attending hoshuukoo (i.e., supplementary academic schools for Japanese-speaking children) in the United States. One hundred sixteen high school students ages 15-18 from eight hoshuukoo completed…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Japanese, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
Langager, Mark – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
This paper is an exploratory study of the childhood academic language environments (CALEs) of bilingual Japanese expatriate students. Student (n=28) and parent (n=67) surveys were adapted from the Life History Calendar (Caspi et al. 1996) to gather retrospective CALE data at a Japanese-English bilingual high school. Principal Components Analysis…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Credentials, Research Needs, Intervention
