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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Japanese learners"”.
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Japanese Learners’ Recognition of English Vowel Phonemes
… for the English language education of Japanese learners from the standpoint of phonology and phonetics. Japanese learners struggle to recognise English sounds accurately due to the substantial differences that exist between the Japanese and English languages. Notably, certain English …
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Autonomy in foreign language learning: An exploratory analysis of Japanese learners
… this study is to gain a greater understanding of Japanese students' beliefs regarding foreign language learning in a particular context. This is undertaken by utilising multi-modal investigation procedures, consisting of three studies. Little's learner autonomy theory is utilised throughout this …
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Exploring Japanese learners' perception, production, and beliefs concerning spoken English contractions
… examined the beliefs and performance of 10 adult Japanese speakers of English regarding the phenomenon of contraction in spoken English. Over the course of three months, a collective case study approach involving listening tasks and semi-structured interviews was employed to investigate the topic …
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A Comparison of the Effects of Comprehension-Based and Production-Based Instruction on the Acquisition of Vocabulary and Grammar by Young Japanese Learners of English
… the available published teaching materials for learners of this age and level. This issue is of considerable importance in Japan given that English has now been introduced as a compulsory subject in the primary school curriculum. The theoretical issues concerned the relative contributions of …
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Nominal phrases in English and Japanese speakers' L2 Mandarin grammars
… (L2) acquisition of Mandarin nominal phrases by Japanese and English learners. Four nominal prope1iies shared by Mandarin and Japanese are the classifier projection (ClP), the incompatibility of . \ . the numeral-classifier phrase with the plural marker, adjectival possessives and the …
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Beliefs And Motivations Of Foreign Language Learners
… purposes, and expectations for learning Japanese and/or Spanish language. A survey was conducted to collect data on EKU students’ demographics, as well as motivations and foreign language learning beliefs. Two hundred thirty eight students completed the questionnaire that includes a …
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Deconstructing narrative identity in English language teaching: an analysis of teacher interviews in Japanese and English
… (21 native English speakers and 21 native Japanese speakers) taught English in Japan. All interviews were conducted in the interviewee’s native language. The analysis therefore consists of a contextualised cross-linguistic description of the linguistic resources employed by speakers for …
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Teaching connected speech rules to Japanese speakers of English so as to avoid a staccato speech rhythm
This study explores the effectiveness of teaching Japanese speakers of English how to connect speech so as to avoid a robotic speech rhythm. A control and an experimental group were each given three one-hour classes in English. The control group read poetry aloud without any explicit instructions. …
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Differences in written language between Japanese EFL learners with different proficiency: From Systemic Functional Linguistic perspectives
… of meaning-making strategies in writing between Japanese EFL learners of different proficiency levels. By adopting Systemic Functional Linguistic (SFL) as its theoretical framework, the thesis also aims to explore the potential of SFL to clarify what linguistic resources learners have learned and …
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Some difficulties in responding to negative polar interrogatives and negative declaratives in English and pedagogical implications for Japanese EFL learners
Traditional Japanese learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are taught to respond to negative questions (e.g. Do you not like English?) with yes for positive answers (e.g. Yes, I do) and no for negative answers (e.g. No, I don't). However, this is subject to variation in native speaker …
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Learner Attitudes Toward Studying English in a Rural Japanese University: Motivation, WTC, and Preferences for Instructional Activities
… population: first-year non-English-major Japanese university students in a rural area of Japan. In addition to traditional motivation measures, measures of group dynamics thought to be relevant to classroom motivation and L2 Willingness to Communicate (WTC),which has recently caught …
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Typologizing Native Language Influence on Intonation in a Second Language: Three Transfer Phenomena in Japanese EFL Learners
… for overcoming challenges in the analysis of L2 learners' intonation production due to the interlanguage mixing of their native and L2 systems. The proposed method involves first creating a stylization of the learner's intonation contour and then running queries to extract phonologically-relevant …
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Speaking Japanese: L1 and L2 grammatical encoding of case particles and adjectives/adjectival nouns
… encoding processes that occur during L1 Japanese sentence production were investigated; second, L2 Japanese learners' sentence production processes were examined. Because any L2 data that we can observe is necessarily the product of both speakers' underlying knowledge and their capacity …
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Semantic Representation of L2 Lexicon in Japanese University Students
… is a partial replication of Jiang (2004b) with Japanese learners of English. The aims of the study are to investigate the influence of the first language (L1) on second language (L2) lexical knowledge, to investigate whether lexical knowledge displays frequency-related, emergent properties, and …
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Japanese students' Romaji strategy when reading words in english as a new language
… to read the new language is arduous. One of the Japanese students' L1 orthography systems, Romaji, uses the Roman alphabet as does the new language, English. But Romaji is read syllabically whereas English is read morphophonemically and phonemically. Romaji keeps a one-to-one letter-sound …
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Similarity in L2 Phonology
Adult second language (L2) learners often experience difficulty producing and perceiving non-native phonological contrasts. Even highly proficient bilinguals, who have been exposed to an L2 for long periods of time, struggle with difficult contrasts, such as /r/-/l/ for Japanese learners of …
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Variability in interlanguage phonology of Malaysian learners of English
… in interlanguage phonology of Malaysian learners of English. The study investigates patterns of style shifting in the speech performance of the Malaysian learners of English as they vary according to various stylistic environments i.e. verbal tasks viz, minimal pairs reading, word list …