November 2007 Volume 3 Issue 2
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Article Title
Japanese Nursing College Students’ Use of English
Outside of the Classroom

Author
Carmella Lieske
Shimane Prefectural Nursing College & Shimane University, Japan

Bio Data
Carmella Lieske has been teaching EFL in Japan since 1993. She has experience teaching not only on the tertiary level at universities, junior colleges, and vocational colleges but also in junior and senior high schools. In the community setting, she has taught L2 students of all ages, ranging from preschool to adult.

Abstract
This paper reports on a pilot study of Japanese nursing college students’ use of English outside of the classroom and students’ enjoyment in speaking English, their second language (L2). A questionnaire was administered to the population of 77 students enrolled in a compulsory English conversation course. While two-thirds of the students “sometimes” or “often” listen to music in English and one-half “sometimes” or “often” watch movies in English, one-fourth read English and less than one-sixth tried to speak English outside of class. The results were also analyzed according to continuance or non-continuance to an elective English conversation course. Data analysis using frequency statistics showed that enjoyment in speaking English was a statistically significant difference between the two groups of students. The paper concludes with four classroom implications.

Keywords: L2 use outside of the classroom, Japanese learner, Japanese EFL classroom, enjoyment in using English, nursing college

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