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Chang, Franklin; Tatsumi, Tomoko; Hiranuma, Yuna; Bannard, Colin – Cognitive Science, 2023
Tense/aspect morphology on verbs is often thought to depend on event features like telicity, but it is not known how speakers identify these features in visual scenes. To examine this question, we asked Japanese speakers to describe computer-generated animations of simple actions with variation in visual features related to telicity. Experiments…
Descriptors: Verbs, Japanese, Heuristics, Morphemes
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Tatsumi, Tomoko; Chang, Franklin; Pine, Julian M. – First Language, 2021
The acquisition of verb morphology is often studied using categorical criteria for determining the productivity of a morpheme. Applying this approach to Japanese, an agglutinative language, this study finds no consistent order for morpheme acquisition and that productivity could be explained by sampling effects. To examine morpheme acquisition…
Descriptors: Verbs, Japanese, Language Acquisition, Morphemes
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Blake, John – Research-publishing.net, 2020
This article describes the development of a tense and aspect identifier, an online tool designed to help learners of English by harnessing a natural language processing pipeline to automatically classify verb groups into one of 12 grammatical tenses. Currently, there is no website or application that can automatically identify tense in context,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Computer Software, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Shuhama, Yuji – Asian Journal of University Education, 2021
The Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 2000) developed in line with the Minimalist theory of grammar (Chomsky, 1995 et seq.) supports the view of L2 acquisition that syntactic properties are acquired early while the acquisition of interface properties is delayed. One of the interface properties is inflectional morphology on English verbs, which…
Descriptors: Scores, Phrase Structure, Morphology (Languages), Verbs
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Long, Robert; Hatcho, Yui – English Language Teaching, 2018
This study focused on the grammatical accuracy of Japanese students who were learning English. The database for the errors came from the Japanese University Student Corpus (JUSC) comprising 61 transcripts containing 51,061 words. An inventory, containing 400 errors in context, was taken from this corpus. The first research question related to the…
Descriptors: Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yomo, Minoru; Uni, Kazuhito; Moore, Danièle; Kiyose, Takashi – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Recently, the use of children's picture books to teach English has been increasing in Japan. An advantage of these books is the high proportion of basic vocabulary they include. Can picture books also be useful for teaching Japanese students Italian and increasing their motivation? The present study analyses the effectiveness of employing a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Picture Books, Childrens Literature
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Long, Robert W., III. – English Language Teaching, 2012
Detailed research concerning the issue fluency, specifically relating to pauses, mean length runs, and fluency rates in Japanese EFL learners, is limited. Furthermore, the issue of tracking fluency gains has often been ignored, misunderstood or minimized in EFL educational research. The present study, which is based on six monologues conducted…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Fluency, Accuracy, English (Second Language)
Kanda, Makiko; Beglar, David – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2004
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of two experimental methods of teaching the present progressive verb tense based on four instructional principles: teach form-function relations, compare similar grammatical forms, promote learner autonomy, and provide opportunities for generative use. Ninety-nine Japanese first-year…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar
Povey, John, Ed. – 1976
This is the tenth annual issue of the UCLA TESL (teaching English as a second language) workpapers. It includes the following papers: (1) "An Attempt to Model the Role of Cognitions in Language Learning," by R.L. Allwright; (2) "A Comparison of Language Proficiency Tests," by J. Donald Bowen; (3) "Language Study Through…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Hypnosis