TODE Tomoko    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences    Position   Professor
Date	2016/04/12
Presentation Theme	Effects of construal awareness on the learning of typologically different second language grammar
Conference	American Association for Applied Linguistics 2016
Promoters	American Association for Applied Linguistics
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Venue	Orlando, USA
Details	This study hypothesizes that raising awareness of how events are construed in English may be effective in reducing errors arising from the Japanese topic-comment construction. Forty Japanese undergraduates learning English met individually with the researcher for three sessions over a 2-week period during which they carried out pretest, treatment, and posttest activities. Although long-term studies are needed before reaching a definitive conclusion, the study suggests that corrective feedback tuning in to construal factors may promote learning of typologically different L2 grammar.