Authorship：Lead author   Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The Malaysian English Language Teaching Association  

This article details the results of a longitudinal qualitative study which sought to examine dynamics in Japanese students’ self-reported anxiety, confidence regarding their English learning experiences and their attitudes to learning English. The data is drawn from responses frombi-annual interviews with three students from three different academically-tiered universities during their four years at university. The results demonstrate the variety of influences on learners from both inside and outside the learning environment that contribute to different levels of anxiety over time irrespective of academic tier. These include perceptions of breakthrough linguistic moments, student-student classroom interaction and the importance of the maintenance of vision of one’s future English-speaking self. The research also demonstrates the benefits of longitudinal research based on narrative enquiry employing fewer numbers of students to uncover considered experiential data which can help reflect the dynamic nature of language study.

DOI： 10.52696/CVJQ9586

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Total pages：85   Responsible for pages：84   Language：Japanese   Book type：Textbook, survey, introduction

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Total pages：170   Language：English   Book type：Textbook, survey, introduction

The premier level of the Dictogloss in Action series is designed to support your students' transition from CEFR B1 to B2 level. This textbook features pre-class reading passages ranging from 260 to 350 words and dictogloss tasks spanning 75 to 125 words in length. ,,Like all entries in the Dictogloss in Action series, this textbook includes free downloadable audio, classroom tasks, video tutorials to enhance students' pronunciation and rhythm, a complimentary speaking app, and downloadable quizzes for teachers.

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Total pages：170   Language：English   Book type：Textbook, survey, introduction

The starter level of the Dictogloss in Action series is designed to support your students' transition from CEFR A1 to A2 level. This textbook features pre-class reading passages ranging from 150 to 200 words and dictogloss tasks spanning 45 to 55 words in length. ,,Like all entries in the Dictogloss in Action series, this textbook includes free downloadable audio, classroom tasks, video tutorials to enhance students' pronunciation and rhythm, a complimentary speaking app, and downloadable quizzes for teachers.

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Total pages：170   Language：English   Book type：Textbook, survey, introduction

The middle level of the Dictogloss in Action series is designed to support your students' transition from CEFR A2 to B1 level. This textbook features pre-class reading passages ranging from 200 to 250 words and dictogloss tasks spanning 45 to 95 words in length. ,,Like all entries in the Dictogloss in Action series, this textbook includes free downloadable audio, classroom tasks, video tutorials to enhance students' pronunciation and rhythm, a complimentary speaking app,

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Total pages：130   Language：Japanese   Book type：Textbook, survey, introduction

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Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

Country/Region：Japan  

For most students, the ultimate goal of learning a second or other language is to interact successfully with others using that language. While some may achieve this through reading and writing, the greater majority appear to prefer to develop their listening and speaking skills. In this workshop, I will introduce various interactive activities and tasks designed to enhance students’ listening, speaking, and interaction skills. The workshop will begin with participants engaging in a one-minute speech activity, designed to develop students’ fluency as well as bottom-up listening skills. Participants will also experience the more cognitively demanding two-minute speech activity, which focuses on improving students’ top-down listening skills and ability to interact in the target language. Following this, a dictogloss task will challenge participants to simultaneously call upon their bottom-up and top-down listening skills, topic schemata, and grammatical skills in the target language. Through read aloud practice, participants will be offered an opportunity to improve the natural sound and intelligibility of their spoken English through explicit instruction of pronunciation, rhythm, and intonation. We will then do an unfocused task based on the topic of the dictogloss passage. The workshop will conclude with a brief overview of the activities along with their theoretical underpinnings and anecdotal evidence supporting the lesson structure.

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Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

Venue：Online  

A discussion of the findings of a longitudinal study investigating the role of imagery training on students’ possible language selves among beginner-level freshman students at a Japanese university.

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