Kazuya Saito
List of John Benjamins publications in which Kazuya Saito is involved.
Journals
ISSN 0019-0829 | E‑ISSN 1783‑1490
Articles
2019 Lexical aspects of comprehensibility and nativeness from the perspective of native-speaking English raters ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 170:1, pp. 24–52 | Article
This study analyzed the contribution of lexical factors to native-speaking raters’ assessments of comprehensibility and nativeness in second language (L2) speech. Using transcribed samples to reduce non-lexical sources of bias, 10 naïve L1 English raters evaluated speech samples from 97 L2… read more
2017 Linguistic correlates of comprehensibility in second language Japanese speech Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 3:2, pp. 199–217 | Article
This study examined phonological, temporal, lexical and grammatical correlates of native speakers’ perception of second language (L2) comprehensibility (i.e., ease of understanding). L2 learners of Japanese with various proficiency levels engaged in oral picture description tasks which were… read more
2010 Interactional feedback as instructional input: A synthesis of classroom SLA research The Processing of Input in Second Language Acquisition / Le traitement de l'input dans l'acquisition des langues étrangères, Véronique, Georges Daniel (ed.), pp. 276–297 | Article
This article reports on an increasing number of SLA studies showing that interactional feedback plays a significant role in improving classroom learners’ use of the target language. Whereas the provision of feedback has proven more effective than no feedback, there are still many variables that… read more