@article{oai:iwate-u.repo.nii.ac.jp:00010593,
 author = {Nesme, Aurore and Hall, James M.},
 journal = {岩手大学英語教育論集},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The authors have written this paper for practitioners of foreign language activities (hereafter, FLA) in elementary school, particularly those educators interested in doing action research. We have three objectives, one, is to introduce a challenging learning activity which was planned collaboratively between the Iwate University Faculty of Education Affiliated Elementary School (hereafter, Fuzoku ES) and the English Department at the Faculty of Education. The second is to show a way for investigating "flow" or how psychologically involved learners are in a task. The last objective is to show ways of investigating the nature of elementary school learner interaction in the L2. We hope that through this, we can help readers better understand what kind ofL2 communication is reasonable to expect from elementary school children and give ideas about how to plan, carry out, and evaluate foreign language activities for elementary school children.
In this section, we will discuss the goals behind FLAs in elementary school as well as common problems with their enactment. Next, we will discuss the features of activities that can encourage "flow" or a psychological state in children that keeps them absorbed in a task. We believe that the concept of "flow" can inform teachers about how to plan engaging activities for elementary school students. Lastly, we will introduce a lesson plan designed to address the issues of conducting FLAs while also attempting to promote flow.},
 pages = {15--41},
 title = {A Pilot Study on Elementary School Foreign Language Activities Which Promote Flow},
 volume = {16},
 year = {2014}
}