Syntactic priming is the tendency for language users to produce a particular syntactic structure soon after listening to or reading that structure. Previous research using Japanese EFL learners found that intermediate learners were affected significantly more by syntactic priming than novice learners in a sentence completion task mainly because the grammatical/syntactic information might not be fully represented in the mental lexicon of the latter (Morishita, 2011; Morishita, Satoi, & Yokokawa, 2010). Morishita and Yokokawa (2011) found, however, that the more novice learners were exposed to certain sentence structures, the stronger the priming effects became, where repeated exposure might aid implicit learning through imitation and practice. This presentation will discuss the results of the above research, as well as those of an ongoing experiment based on a scripted interaction task, in order to assess the possibility of using syntactic priming to facilitate the language production of novice Japanese EFL learners.