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Philip Cardiff; Malgorzata Polczynska; Tina Brown – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Education is widely recognized as a key domain for the promotion of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), prompting an increased focus on sustainable development in foreign language education. Despite increased attention, guidelines about SDGs are often primarily policy-based without concrete guidance, and the integration of education…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Sustainable Development, Second Language Learning, Sustainability
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Kasami, Naoko – Research-publishing.net, 2021
This study aims to analyse the initial use of Digital Storytelling (DS) in primarily asynchronous classes in order to yield results and recommendations for future courses. All participants were students in elective English courses at a Japanese university in Spring, 2020. Due to COVID-19, the courses were redesigned and conducted remotely with the…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Story Telling, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kassim, Samar; Witkin, Neil; Stone, Adam – Research-publishing.net, 2019
The aim of this study was to discover what potential benefits of Virtual Reality (VR) use students perceived in comparison to smartphone use in an English-speaking activity. Two surveys were conducted over three interventions in order to ascertain these student perceptions. Ten students enrolled in an elective English class at a Japanese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Hadley, Gregory; Charles, Maggie – Language Learning & Technology, 2017
This paper investigates using data-driven learning (DDL) as a means of stimulating greater lexicogrammatical knowledge and reading speed among lower proficiency learners in an extensive reading program. For 16 weekly 90-minute sessions, an experimental group (12 students) used DDL materials created from a corpus developed from the Oxford Bookworms…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Vocabulary Skills
Corcoran, Dolores – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2009
Lesson study is a form of teacher professional development that is intrinsic to the Japanese educational system in first and second level schools and in teacher education. Lesson study has been credited with the success of Japanese pupils in international comparative tests of mathematics achievement (Stigler and Hiebert, 1999). It is gaining…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Elective Courses, Foreign Countries