TY - GEN
T1 - A pattern language for improving foreign language skills when studying abroad
AU - Iba, Haruka
AU - Iba, Takashi
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Konomi Munakata, Sakie Namiki, Eri Shimomukai and Sumire "Susie" Nakamura for telling us about their experiences. In addition, we would like to thank Christian Kohls and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock for encouraging us to submit this paper to EuroPLoP. Furthermore, we sincerely thank Mary Lynn Manns for giving feedbacks as our shepherd and encouraging us to revising this paper and participants of the writers' workshop atEuroPLoP2019, Valentino Vranic, Omer Uludag, Waheedullah Sulaiman Khail, Frieder Jacobi, James Lear, Kohki Ogawa, Hinako Ando, Rei Kono and Karin Iwata, for giving feedback. We also thank Mr. Squire, who is Haruka's ESL teacher at Westview High School, for proofreading the first draft.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2019/7/3
Y1 - 2019/7/3
N2 - In this paper, a pattern language for improving foreign language skills when studying abroad, which describes effective practices to improve language skills, is presented. This pattern language comprises 39 patterns, which are classified into three different categories: Place to Speak, Opportunity Building, and Thinking in the foreign language. It was developed from interviews conducted with college students and graduates who had studied abroad when they were in junior high school or high school. The process of creating this pattern language is described and five of the 39 patterns, namely, Active Questioner, Favorite TV Show, Personal Word Book, Reading while Listening, and Thorough Rewriting are presented. Furthermore, an experience chart of using this pattern language is provided.
AB - In this paper, a pattern language for improving foreign language skills when studying abroad, which describes effective practices to improve language skills, is presented. This pattern language comprises 39 patterns, which are classified into three different categories: Place to Speak, Opportunity Building, and Thinking in the foreign language. It was developed from interviews conducted with college students and graduates who had studied abroad when they were in junior high school or high school. The process of creating this pattern language is described and five of the 39 patterns, namely, Active Questioner, Favorite TV Show, Personal Word Book, Reading while Listening, and Thorough Rewriting are presented. Furthermore, an experience chart of using this pattern language is provided.
KW - English as second language
KW - Foreign language skills
KW - Learning
KW - Pattern language
KW - Studying abroad
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U2 - 10.1145/3361149.3361162
DO - 10.1145/3361149.3361162
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85076683090
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, EuroPLoP 2019
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 24th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, EuroPLoP 2019
Y2 - 3 July 2019 through 7 July 2019
ER -