Natsuko Shintani
List of John Benjamins publications in which Natsuko Shintani is involved.
Journals
ISSN 0019-0829 | E‑ISSN 1783‑1490
Language Teaching for Young Learners
Edited by Dingfang Shu and Jonathan Newton
ISSN 2589-2053 | E‑ISSN 2589‑207X
TASK
Journal on Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning
Edited by Kris Van den Branden and Koen Van Gorp
ISSN 2666-1748 | E‑ISSN 2666‑1756
Title
Input-based Tasks in Foreign Language Instruction for Young Learners
Natsuko Shintani
The book examines how task-based language teaching (TBLT) can be carried out with young beginner learners in a foreign language context. It addresses how TBLT can be introduced and implemented in a difficult instructional context where traditional teaching approaches are entrenched. The book… read more[Task-Based Language Teaching, 9] 2016. xi, 199 pp.
2025 Researching the role of interaction in young learners’ acquisition of English: An interview with María del Pilar García Mayo Language Teaching for Young Learners 7:2, pp. 303–317 | Interview
In this interview, Natsuko Shintani, the Review Editor of Language Teaching for Young Learners, invites Dr. María del Pilar García Mayo to share her expertise as a teacher and researcher. Dr. García Mayo is a Full Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Universidad del País Vasco… read more
2023 Chapter 6. Proficiency effects on L2 pragmatics L2 Pragmatics in Action: Teachers, learners and the teaching-learning interaction process, Martínez-Flor, Alicia, Ariadna Sánchez-Hernández and Júlia Barón (eds.), pp. 145–167 | Chapter
Proficiency is a widely used concept in second language (L2) pragmatics where it is commonly viewed as lexico-grammatical knowledge, and can be measured by means of standardised or researcher-designed tests, or estimated on the basis of levels in a language program. It is a common grouping… read more
2023 Chapter 15. Methodological considerations in the analysis of synchronous and asynchronous written corrective feedback: The affordances of online technologies Research Methods in the Study of L2 Writing Processes, Manchón, Rosa M. and Julio Roca de Larios (eds.), pp. 315–336 | Chapter
Providing written corrective feedback in computer-mediated communication (CMC) environments has increasingly attracted the interest of both researchers and practitioners. In this chapter we reflect on our study, Shintani & Aubrey (2016), which examined the comparative effects of synchronous and… read more
2022 The roles of language proficiency and study abroad in Japanese students’ receptive pragmatic competence Applied Pragmatics 4:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
This study investigated the pragmatic competence of 50 Japanese English major students, divided into two groups, one of which participated in a study abroad (SA) program and the other stayed at home (AH) taking regular university classes. Two tests were used to measure two aspects of the… read more
2021 Computer-mediated instruction using ondoku practice for developing elementary school students’ pronunciation skills Language Teaching for Young Learners 3:1, pp. 159–173 | Article
This article reports on an elementary school teacher’s research project that evaluated a new teaching practice for Japanese elementary school students. The project was conducted in two fifth-grade classes comprising a total of 59 students. The teacher-researcher designed a computer-mediated… read more
2019 Chapter 5. The roles of explicit instruction and guided practice in the proceduralization of a complex grammatical structure Doing SLA Research with Implications for the Classroom: Reconciling methodological demands and pedagogical applicability, DeKeyser, Robert M. and Goretti Prieto Botana (eds.), pp. 83–106 | Chapter
This chapter reports a classroom-based experimental study focusing on the effects of providing metalinguistic explanation (ME) before asking learners to perform a practice activity involving story reconstruction on their acquisition of a grammatical structure. The task required learners to… read more
2018 Chapter 7. Researching TBLT for young, beginner learners in Japan TBLT as a Researched Pedagogy, Samuda, Virginia, Kris Van den Branden and Martin Bygate (eds.), pp. 199–212 | Chapter
This chapter addresses a personal account of how I came to carry out research into TBLT within, and as a response to, my own teaching context. I started my career as an English teacher in a large private language institution. Due to my dissatisfaction with the effectiveness of the teaching methods… read more
2018 Chapter 10. Mediating input-based tasks for beginner learners through task repetition: A sociocultural perspective Learning Language through Task Repetition, Bygate, Martin (ed.), pp. 255–278 | Chapter
This chapter examines task repetition from a sociocultural perspective. I will report a study examining how the dynamics of teacher-student interaction change when the same task is repeated over time. I draw on sociocultural theory by viewing task repetition as one way of dynamically mediating… read more