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Direct linkMiki Satori – Language Learning Journal, 2024
This study examines the knowledge representation of Japanese university students assessed using grammaticality judgement tests (GJTs) and a metalinguistic knowledge test (MKT). The study also investigates the role of automatised and non-automatised explicit knowledge in general L2 language proficiency. Participants were 87 late learners of English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Self-Regulation and Self-Efficacy for the Improvement of Listening Proficiency outside the Classroom
Yabukoshi, Tomoko – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This paper reports on a qualitative inquiry into Japanese students' self-regulated learning processes to improve their listening proficiency outside the classroom in an English as a foreign language context. Four Japanese university students with different levels of self-efficacy and listening outcomes were closely examined from a social cognitive…
Descriptors: Self Management, Self Efficacy, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Listening Skills
The Effects of Strategic Planning and Rehearsal on Second Language Group Discussion Task Performance
Stroud, Robert – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This article expands upon research into task planning effects by looking at how the addition of planning prior to group discussions may positively and negatively influence performance. 24 Japanese university students performed three weekly discussions in groups of four. Prior to each discussion, they undertook either no planning, strategic…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Group Discussion, Undergraduate Students, Accuracy
Uchihara, Takumi; Saito, Kazuya – Language Learning Journal, 2019
The current study investigated the extent to which L2 learners' productive vocabulary knowledge could predict multiple dimensions of spontaneous speech production. A total of 39 English as a foreign language (EFL) participants with varying L2 proficiency levels first completed a productive vocabulary knowledge task (Lex30). Their spontaneous…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Houghton, Stephanie Ann – Language Learning Journal, 2013
This article reports on an action research case study conducted at a university in Japan, which explored how student identity-development can be made visible in potentially assessable ways through materials design in intercultural communicative competence (ICC)-oriented foreign language education. It suggests that identity-development can be…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Willis, Martin; Ohashi, Yoshie – Language Learning Journal, 2012
Vocabulary is an essential component of language. It is central to reading ability, writing ability and listening ability, and the most important aspect of second-language (L2) knowledge for academic achievement. The aim of this paper is to investigate quantitatively some of the factors that make some L2 words more difficult to learn and retain…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Writing Ability, Reading Ability, Vocabulary Development
