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Direct linkMeacham, Sarah S. – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2007
In this article I discuss the emergence of practices of "hearing" in the midst of English language learning activities. I focus on listening activities during oral English lessons at two public high schools in Tokyo, Japan. One setting is a liberal arts high school. The other is a technical high school where students are trained in…
Descriptors: High Schools, Listening Skills, Foreign Countries, Liberal Arts
Download full textLee, Soo-im – 1999
This chapter describes a program evaluation of cooperative learning in a private language school devoted to teaching English to Japanese students. Student resistance to cooperative learning was due to a lack of training of students, a lack of understanding of basic cooperative learning principles by administrators, and a lack of cooperative…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Okami, Kazuhiko – 2001
In Japan, objectives and content of high school language courses are stipulated in the National Curriculum of Japan or The Course of Study. The last major overhaul of this curriculum in language learning occurred in 1989, and it aimed at the enhancement of communicative competence and understanding of international relations. Accordingly, now…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
