My personal website updated kazuyasaito.net

Another great evidence that L2 speech learning success/difficulties stem from domain-general auditory processing. Wiener et al. (in press) Incidental Nonspeech Auditory Learning Scaffolds Phonetic, Category, and Word Learning onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New Article Pujadas, G., & Webb, S. (2025). Does comprehension of L2 television programs improve through regular classroom viewing? Language Learning & Technology, 29(1), 1–24. hdl.handle.net/10125/73605

New paper out soon - How do motivation and emotion drive second language speech learning? oasis-database.org/details/r3a8ug…

Applied Linguistics Press has just published its 5th(!) book. 100% open access. Insightful and entertaining text by Andrew Goatly on the metaphor of straightness and language.

Declarative and automatized phonological vocabulary knowledge in L2 listening proficiency: A training study bit.ly/3Ee2OGH

流暢性アノテーションシステムのデモ動画公開しましたー！ I've published a demo video of my fluency feature annotation system - Check it out! youtu.be/fkpNAbFg0PE

The effects of production training on speech perception in L2 learners... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

The relationships among L2 fluency, intelligibility, comprehensibility, and accentedness | Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/3Qul7ud

Very excited to share that our team's (Kazuya Saito Takumi Uchihara Yui Suzukida Satsuki Kurokawa) latest paper is just accepted in Applied Linguistics! This study confirmed the robustness of automatized phonological vocabulary knowledge in *L2 speech production*. Coming soon!