Kazuya Saito

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kazuya Saito plays a role.

Journals

Articles

Appel, Randy, Pavel Trofimovich, Kazuya Saito, Talia Isaacs and Stuart Webb 2019 Lexical aspects of comprehensibility and nativeness from the perspective of native-speaking English ratersITL - 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
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 judged… read more
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