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The Effects of Strategic Planning and Rehearsal on Second Language Group Discussion Task Performance
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Direct linkStroud, 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
Download full textKato, Makiko – English Language Teaching, 2022
English teachers, especially those who teach summary writing to students with relatively lower proficiency in English face difficulty in teaching summary writing and while assessing their students' performances. In the classroom context, an analytic rubric is pedagogically more helpful than a holistic rubric because the teacher can confirm the…
Descriptors: Scoring Rubrics, Writing Skills, Writing Evaluation, Language Proficiency
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
Taura, Hideyuki – 1997
A study used error analysis to examine and compare the English language proficiency and language learning patterns of two native Japanese speakers, aged 15 and 17. Data were elicited verbally from the subjects, with more elicited from the older, and analyzed for error patterns. Results indicate striking similarities in error patterns; however, a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns
Mizuno, Mitsuharu – IRAL, 1999
Discusses how second-language learners whose first languages contain an article system differ in their acquisition of English articles from learners whose first languages do not contain such a system. Reviews the approach of Mizuno's (1988) interlanguage analysis for uncovering the process in second-language acquisition, and summarizes findings of…
Descriptors: College Students, Determiners (Languages), English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language)
Mizuno, Harumitsu – Japan Association of College English Teachers: JACET Bulletin, 1985
The purpose of this paper is to examine the process of interlanguage development in Japanese adult learners of English as a Second Language (ESL) in acquisition-poor environments. A total of 353 subjects were divided into 9 groups based on their level of English proficiency and tested to determine: (1) what types of errors Japanese adult ESL…
Descriptors: Adults, Determiners (Languages), Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language)
