Extensive reading is widely accepted as a valuable source of comprehensible input for language learners. However, there is little research investigating the effect it may have upon productive skills such as writing. This presentation details the results of a correlation study (N = 99) examining relationships between reading quantities and improvements in writing task scores or Japanese EFL students in a university spoken communication class.

The presenter will examine the cross-linguistic influence of food and taste related language and how it influences cognition and language learning. The presentation will examine ideophones, conceptual metaphor, and a comparison of schematic mental associations within the domain of food and taste between Japanese English learners and native English speakers. The presentation will also present evidence from a study to support the claim that language influences cognition.

Teachers have the agency to control and allow freedom on the part of their students. However, in this study students were given a high degree of independence in scriptwriting and co-creating storybooks, centered on their own lived experiences. The combination of narrative activity and autonomy led to increased joy and interconnectedness both between students, with their teacher and within the class. Students’ autonomy kindled their self-determination and motivation from within as they cultivated shared goals.

This research is classroom-based research aiming to improve students' L2 reading motivation. The actions are given to freshmen in a non-English Department at private university in Indonesia. XReading is used as the main source of extensive reading activity and reading monitoring which becomes part of the actions in improving the students' L2 reading motivation.

Active learning encourages students to actively participate in classes and contributes to the formation of a better learning community between teachers and students. This research focuses on student emotions for mitigating the disadvantages of active learning: a longitudinal perspective to investigate mainly the relationships between students’ English proficiency improvement and students’ foreign language enjoyment (FLE)/foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA). In conclusion, students with low anxiety early in class can expect to improve their English proficiency.

The presenters used the online extensive reading (ER) system Xreading to gather data on the relationship between ER words read and subsequent TOEIC reading scores across three cohorts of first-year tertiary Japanese students (N=714). Despite a clearly observable positive correlation between TOEIC performance and extensive reading, careful analysis suggests that this association may, in fact, be the result of a third, mediating variable.