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Gorsuch, Greta – TESL-EJ, 2018
This report [1] focuses on four upper-intermediate and advanced English language learners being supported as international teaching assistants (ITAs) at a research university in the U.S. [1] Learners had little experience using English in extended speech, and little grasp of Discourse Intonation (DI), which is how a speaker uses the pausing and…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Teaching Assistants, Practicums
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Gorsuch, Greta; Taguchi, Etsuo; Umehara, Hiroaki – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
A perennial challenge to second language educators and learners is getting sufficient input in settings where the L2 is not widely used, in this case beginning-level American university students learning Japanese. Reading is a significant means of getting L2 input, with recent calls for attention to reading and authentic texts as curriculum…
Descriptors: Japanese, Second Language Learning, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension