Psychology & Language Learning First-Year University Students’ Strategies During Speaking Performances more

Mon, Nov 15, 12:45-13:10 Asia/Tokyo

This study examined L2 speakers’ strategies of how to complete an opinion monologue task successfully. The participants were 48 Japanese university students, and they answered a retrospective questionnaire after a task. Among them, four participants also had follow-up interviews. The findings show that the participants prioritized what to talk about rather than grammatical accuracy. Discussion will center on Levelt’s speech model, and how speaking tasks can be implemented will also be discussed.