This presentation will describe how surveys were utilized during the development of a university self-access language learning center. Although we focus on self-access, we hope the insights from the survey will be of interest to teachers focused on classroom contexts.
The center, opened in 2021, provides opportunities for L2 use (English, Spanish and Chinese), cross-cultural interactions,...
Drilling, as a language-learning activity, has fallen out of favor over the past few decades, but it is finding support in Skills Acquisition Theory (DeKeyser, 2007) literature and as falling within Butzkamm and Caldwell’s (2009) generative principle of language development.
When drilling was last in vogue, modern technologies and language learning tools had not been developed. Now, tools...
This poster consists of the rationale, methodology, results, and discussion of an exploratory study with the purpose of focusing the potential scope of research possibilities regarding the use of conversation strategies in first-year English Communication, or EC1, courses at Sojo University. Conversation strategies have been included as a component of the EC1 and 2 curriculum in part since...
Wood et al. (1976) used the term “scaffolding” to describe the support given by an adult to a child. Since then, the term has also been used to describe support offered to a novice by a more knowledgeable other. Wood et al. specified scaffolding as consisting of six functions: recruitment, reduction in degrees of freedom, direction maintenance, marking critical features, frustration control,...
The growing popularity of social media sites, coupled with the omnipresence of digital devices, means that most Japanese university English language learners (ELLs) process a tremendous amount of digital stimuli on a daily basis. Thus, it is important that English as an international language (EIL) educators put more emphasis on cultivating students’ critical thinking skills. Creating a...
As approaches to language teaching based on interaction between learners (e.g., Communicative Language Teaching; Task-based Language Teaching) have become the norm in many classrooms, group and pair work have come to play a prominent role in language learning. Working in groups or pairs gives learners more opportunities to use English, share information about themselves and build rapport with...
