In this paper we discuss our approach toward establishing a model of the acquisition of English grammatical structures by users of our English language tutoring system, which has been designed for deaf users of American Sign Language. We explore the correlation between a corpus of error-tagged texts and their holistic proficiency scores assigned by experts in order to draw initial conclusions a...

This study investigated the factors, such as students’ foreign language enjoyment, their classroom anxiety, teacher’s choice (English-only instruction versus English with limited legitimate Japanese support), and demographics that affect improvement in proficiency EFL communicative classes. Ninety-three college students Japan participated this research, for which they comple...