The effects of written languaging on L2 learning

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370696
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Josai University
• Principal Investigator: Ishikawa Masako 城西大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 准教授 (10552961)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SUZUKI Wataru 宮城教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (60549640)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 外国語教育 / 第二言語習得 / ライティング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

“Languaging” is language produced by learners when they encounter linguistic problems or reflect on their language use. To date, many studies have reported the facilitative effect of oral languaging on language learning. Focusing on written languaging, this study investigated its effect with Japanese university students as participants by conducting the two experiments, both of which produced evidence that written languaging has a positive impact on Japanese-English translation tasks. These results indicate that not only oral languaging but also written languaging facilitates language learning.

Free Research Field

第二言語習得