JALT2025 - Tokyo

Japanese Pre-service EFL Teachers Learning to Teach Grammar

Nov 1, 2025, 5:00 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes) Teacher and Professional Development Room 301

Speakers

Dr Merve Savasci (Sakarya University)Prof. Kazuyoshi Sato (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)

Description

This longitudinal study investigates Japanese pre-service EFL teachers’ grammar instruction cognitions and practices both before and after exposure to communicative grammar teaching pedagogy, who received a semester-long undergraduate course based on focus-on-form (FonF) instruction, as well as seeks whether and/or how their cognitions and teaching practices evolve over time.

Summary

This longitudinal study investigates Japanese pre-service EFL teachers’ grammar instruction cognitions and practices both before and after exposure to communicative grammar teaching pedagogy, who received a semester-long undergraduate course based on focus-on-form (FonF) instruction, as well as seeks whether and/or how their cognitions and teaching practices evolve over time.