Applied Linguistics

Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Saito, Kazuya and Halimi, F. (2023) How Foreign Language Enjoyment acts as a buoy for sagging motivation: A longitudinal investigation. Applied Linguistics 44 (1), pp. 22-45. ISSN 0142-6001.

Saito, Kazuya and Trofimovich, Pavel and Isaacs, T. (2017) Using listener judgments to investigate linguistic influences on L2 comprehensibility and accentedness: a validation and generalization study. Applied Linguistics 38 (4), pp. 439-462. ISSN 0142-6001.

Applied Psycholinguistics

Saito, Kazuya and Sun, Hui and Tierney, Adam (2020) Domain-general auditory processing determines success in second language pronunciation learning in adulthood: a longitudinal study. Applied Psycholinguistics 41 (5), pp. 1083-1112. ISSN 0142-7164.

Saito, Kazuya (2019) The role of aptitude in second language segmental learning: the case of Japanese learners’ English /r/ pronunciation attainment in classroom settings. [Editorial/Introduction]

Saito, Kazuya and Ilkan, M. and Magne, V. and Tran, M. and Suzuki, S. (2018) Acoustic characteristics and learner profiles of low, mid and high-level second language fluency. Applied Psycholinguistics 39 (3), pp. 593-617. ISSN 0142-7164.

Saito, Kazuya and Trofimovich, P. and Isaacs, T. (2016) Second language speech production: investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels. Applied Psycholinguistics 37 (2), pp. 217-240. ISSN 0142-7164.

Saito, Kazuya and Hanzawa, K. (2015) Developing second language oral ability in foreign language classrooms: the role of the length and focus of instruction and individual differences. Applied Psycholinguistics , ISSN 0142-7164.

Saito, Kazuya (2015) Communicative focus on second language phonetic form: Teaching Japanese learners to perceive and produce English /ɹ/ without explicit instruction. Applied Psycholinguistics 36 (02), pp. 377-409. ISSN 0142-7164.

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition

Saito, Kazuya and Sun, Hui and Tierney, Adam (2019) Explicit and implicit aptitude effects on second language speech learning: scrutinizing segmental and suprasegmental sensitivity and performance via behavioural and neurophysiological measures. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 22 (5), pp. 1123-1140. ISSN 1366-7289.

Saito, Kazuya and Webb, S. and Trofimovich, P. and Isaacs, T. (2016) Lexical correlates of comprehensibility versus accentedness in second language speech. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19 (3), pp. 597-609. ISSN 1366-7289.

Trofimovich, P. and Isaacs, T. and Kennedy, S. and Saito, Kazuya and Crowther, D. (2016) Flawed self-assessment: investigating self- and other-perception of second language speech. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 19 (01), pp. 122-140. ISSN 1366-7289.

Brain and Language

Kachlicka, M. and Saito, Kazuya and Tierney, Adam (2019) Successful second language learning is tied to robust domain-general auditory processing and stable neural representation of sound. Brain and Language 192 , pp. 15-24. ISSN 0093-934X.

Cognition

Saito, Kazuya and Kachlicka, Magdalena and Suzukida, Yui and Petrova, Katya and Lee, B. and Tierney, Adam (2022) Auditory precision hypothesis-L2: dimension-specific relationships between auditory processing and second language learning. Cognition 229 , ISSN 0010-0277.

ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Appel, R. and Trofimovich, P. and Saito, Kazuya and Isaacs, T. and Webb, S. (2019) Lexical aspects of comprehensibility and nativeness from the perspective of native-speaking English raters. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 170 (1), pp. 24-52. ISSN 0019-0810.

International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Saito, Kazuya and van Poeteren, K. (2018) The perception-production link revisited: the case of Japanese learners' English /r/ performance. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 28 (1), pp. 3-17. ISSN 0802-6106.

Saito, Kazuya (2014) Experienced teachers' perspectives on priorities for improved intelligible pronunciation: the case of Japanese learners of English. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 24 (2), pp. 250-277. ISSN 0802-6106.

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Shintani, N. and Saito, Kazuya and Rie, K. (2019) The relationship between multilingual raters’ language background and their perceptions of accentedness and comprehensibility of second language speech. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (7), pp. 849-869. ISSN 1367-0050.

Journal of Memory and Language

Saito, Kazuya and Kachlicka, M. and Sun, Hui and Tierney, Adam (2020) Domain-general auditory processing as an anchor of post-pubertal L2 pronunciation learning: behavioural and neurophysiological investigations of perceptual acuity, age, experience, development, and attainment. Journal of Memory and Language 115 (104168), ISSN 0749-596X.

Journal of Second Language Pronunciation

Saito, Kazuya and Akiyama, Y. (2017) Linguistic correlates of comprehensibility in second language Japanese speech. Journal of Second Language Pronunciation 3 (2), pp. 199-217. ISSN 2215-1931.

Language Awareness

Saito, Kazuya and Shintani, N. (2016) Foreign accentedness revisited: Canadian and Singaporean raters’ perception of Japanese-accented English. Language Awareness 25 (4), pp. 305-317. ISSN 0965-8416.

Language Learning

Sun, Hui and Saito, Kazuya and Dewaele, Jean-Marc (2023) Cognitive and sociopsychological individual differences, experience, and naturalistic second language speech learning: a longitudinal study. Language Learning , ISSN 0023-8333.

Saito, Kazuya and Train, M. and Suzukida, Yui and Tierney, Adam (2021) Domain-general auditory processing partially explains second language speech learning in classroom settings: a review and generalization study. Language Learning 71 (3), pp. 669-715. ISSN 0023-8333.

Saito, Kazuya and Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Abe, M. and In'nami, Y. (2018) Motivation, emotion, learning experience and second language comprehensibility development in classroom settings: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study. Language Learning 68 (3), pp. 709-743. ISSN 0023-8333.

Saito, Kazuya (2017) Effects of sound, vocabulary and grammar learning aptitude on adult second language oral ability in foreign language classrooms. Language Learning 67 (3), pp. 665-693. ISSN 0023-8333.

Saito, Kazuya and Akiyama, Y. (2017) Video-based interaction, negotiation for comprehensibility, and second language speech learning: a longitudinal study. Language Learning 67 (1), pp. 43-74. ISSN 0023-8333.

Saito, Kazuya (2015) Experience effects on the development of late second language learners’ oral proficiency. Language Learning 65 (3), pp. 563-595. ISSN 0023-8333.

Language Teaching Research

Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Saito, Kazuya and Halimi, F. (2022) How teacher behaviour shapes foreign language learners’ enjoyment, anxiety and attitudes/motivation: a mixed modelling longitudinal investigation. Language Teaching Research , ISSN 1362-1688.

Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Witney, J. and Saito, Kazuya and Dewaele, L. (2017) Foreign language enjoyment and anxiety: the effect of teacher and learner variables. Language Teaching Research 22 (6), pp. 676-697. ISSN 1362-1688.

Saito, Y. and Saito, Kazuya (2016) Differential effects of instruction on the development of second language comprehensibility, word Stress, rhythm, and intonation: the case of inexperienced Japanese EFL learners. Language Teaching Research , ISSN 1362-1688.

Saito, Kazuya (2015) Variables affecting the effects of recasts on L2 pronunciation development. Language Teaching Research 19 (3), pp. 276-300. ISSN 1362-1688.

Saito, Kazuya and Hanzawa, K. (2008) The role of input in second language oral ability development in foreign language classrooms: a longitudinal study. Language Teaching Research 22 (4), pp. 398-417. ISSN 1362-1688.

Language and Speech

Saito, Kazuya and Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Hanzawa, K. (2017) A longitudinal investigation of the relationship between motivation and late second language speech learning in classroom settings. Language and Speech 60 (4), pp. 614-632. ISSN 0023-8309.

Saito, Kazuya and Munro, M.J. (2014) The early phase of /ɹ/ production development in adult Japanese learners of English. Language and Speech 57 (4), pp. 451-469. ISSN 0023-8309.

Second Language Research

Zheng, C. and Saito, Kazuya and Tierney, Adam (2022) Successful second language pronunciation learning is linked to domain-general auditory processing rather than music aptitude. Second Language Research 38 (3), pp. 477-497. ISSN 0267-6583.

Saito, Kazuya (2019) Individual differences in second language speech learning in classroom settings: roles of awareness in the longitudinal development of Japanese learners’ English /ɹ/ pronunciation. Second Language Research 35 (2), pp. 149-172. ISSN 0267-6583.

Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Saito, Kazuya and Sun, H. and Kachlicka, M. and Alayo, J. and Nakata, T. and Tierney, Adam (2022) Domain-general auditory processing explains multiple dimensions of L2 acquisition in adulthood. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 44 (1), pp. 57-86. ISSN 0272-2631.

Sun, Hui and Saito, Kazuya and Tierney, Adam (2021) A longitudinal investigation of explicit and implicit auditory processing in L2 Segmental and Suprasegmental Acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 43 (3), pp. 551-573. ISSN 0272-2631.

Saito, Kazuya and Suzukida, Y. and Sun, H. (2019) Aptitude, experience and second language pronunciation proficiency development in classroom settings: a longitudinal study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 41 (1), pp. 201-225. ISSN 0272-2631.

Crowther, D. and Trofimovich, P. and Isaacs, T. and Saito, Kazuya (2018) Linguistic dimensions of l2 accentedness and comprehensibility vary across speaking tasks. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 40 (2), pp. 443-457. ISSN 0272-2631.

Saito, Kazuya and Webb, S. and Trofimovich, P. and Isaacs, T. (2016) Lexical profiles of comprehensible second language speech: the role of appropriateness, fluency, variation, sophistication, abstractness and sense relations. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 38 (4), pp. 677-701. ISSN 0272-2631.

Saito, Kazuya (2015) The role of age of acquisition in late second language oral proficiency attainment. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 37 (4), pp. 713-743. ISSN 0272-2631.

Saito, Kazuya and Wu, X. (2014) Communicative focus on form and second language suprasegmental learning: teaching Cantonese learners to perceive mandarin tones. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 36 (04), pp. 647-680. ISSN 0272-2631.

System

Gooch, R. and Saito, Kazuya and Lyster, R. (2016) Effects of recasts and prompts on L2 pronunciation development: teaching English /r/ to Korean adult EFL learners. System 60 , pp. 117-127. ISSN 0346-251X.

TESOL Quarterly

Shao, Y. and Saito, Kazuya and Tierney, Adam (2023) How does having a good ear promote instructed second language pronunciation development? Roles of domain-general auditory processing in choral repetition training. TESOL Quarterly 57 (1), pp. 33-63. ISSN 0039-8322.

Saito, Kazuya (2019) To what extent does long-term foreign language education help improve spoken second language lexical proficiency? TESOL Quarterly 53 (1), pp. 82-107. ISSN 0039-8322.

Saito, Kazuya and Akiyama, Y. (2018) Effects of video-based interaction on the development of second language listening comprehension ability: a longitudinal study. TESOL Quarterly 52 (1), pp. 163-176. ISSN 0039-8322.

Saito, Kazuya and Shintani, N. (2016) Do native speakers of North American and Singapore English differentially perceive comprehensibility in second language speech? TESOL Quarterly 50 (2), pp. 421-446. ISSN 0039-8322.

Crowther, D. and Trofimovich, P. and Saito, Kazuya and Isaacs, T. (2015) Second language comprehensibility revisited: investigating the effects of learner background. TESOL Quarterly 49 (4), pp. 814-837. ISSN 0039-8322.

The European Educational Researcher

Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Saito, Kazuya (2022) Positive psychology can combat the pernicious native speaker ideology. The European Educational Researcher 5 (2), pp. 225-234. ISSN 2517-6323.

The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition

Saito, Kazuya (2018) Advanced second language segmental and suprasegmental acquisition. In: Malovrh, P.A. and Benati, A.G. (eds.) The Handbook of Advanced Proficiency in Second Language Acquisition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 282-303. ISBN 9781119261650.

The Linguistics Journal

Saito, Kazuya (2007) The influence of explicit phonetic instruction on pronunciation teaching in EFL settings: the case of English vowels and Japanese learners of English. The Linguistics Journal 3 (3), pp. 17-41. ISSN 1718-2301.

The Modern Language Journal

Dewaele, Jean-Marc and Magdalena-Franco, A. and Saito, Kazuya (2019) The effect of perception of teacher characteristics on Spanish EFL Learners’ anxiety and enjoyment. The Modern Language Journal 103 (2), pp. 412-427. ISSN 0026-7902.

Akiyama, Y. and Saito, Kazuya (2016) Development of Comprehensibility and its Linguistic Correlates: A Longitudinal Study of Video-Mediated Telecollaboration. The Modern Language Journal 100 (3), pp. 585-609. ISSN 0026-7902.

Crowther, D. and Trofimovich, P. and Isaacs, T. and Saito, Kazuya (2015) Does a speaking task affect second language comprehensibility? The Modern Language Journal 99 (1), pp. 80-95. ISSN 0026-7902.

The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching

Saito, Kazuya (2018) Recasting. In: Liontas, J.I. (ed.) The TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching. Wiley. ISBN 9781118784228.