The Effectiveness of Computer-Assisted Metalinguistic Instruction: A Case Study in Japanese

This study examines the effectiveness of computer‐assisted metalinguistic instruction for teaching complex grammatical structures such as Japanese particles. Fourteen students enrolled in second‐year Japanese at the university level participated in the study. First, a particle test was administered. The result suggested that the students employ two main strategies to assign a particle in a sentence: one is to follow metalinguistic rules and the...