This review involved 60 articles chosen from 336 empirical studies identified in five leading
journals on the learning and teaching of Chinese as a second or foreign language in …

According to Krashen's affective filter hypothesis, students who are highly motivated have
their self-consciousness. When they enter a learning context with a low level of anxiety, they …

This study explores the communicative needs of summer study abroad students in Japan.
Despite the growing popularity of Task-Based Language Teaching (TBLT), identifying target …

This article updates the trends and developments of Japanese as a second language (JSL)
research since Mori and Mori (2011) by reviewing nearly 200 selected empirical studies …

Names: Heinrich, Patrick, editor.| Ohara, Yumiko, editor. Title: Routledge handbook of
Japanese sociolinguistics/edited by Patrick Heinrich and Yumiko Ohara. Description: New …

Translingual practice is an emergent theoretical perspective which emphasizes the capacity
and disposition for meaning-making across linguistic boundaries. Following on studies of …

Although Kanji is widely recognized as the most difficult hurdle to overcome in learning
Japanese, little research has been undertaken on the selection and order in which Kanji are …

Research into the effects of extensive reading (ER) has surged over the past few decades.
However, these studies almost exclusively focus on English language learners and tend to …

Extensive reading (ER) research has suggested that completing the equivalent of 7,200
standard words of extensive reading per week facilitates substantial reading rate gains …

L2 extensive reading (ER) research primarily studies intermediate and upper-intermediate
learners, but few studies investigate beginners. This study addresses this gap by reporting …