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Kimura, Yuzo, Ed.; Yang, Luxin, Ed.; Kim, Tae-Young, Ed.; Nakata, Yoshiyuki, Ed. – English Language Education, 2022
This volume highlights unique features of L2 teachers' motivation, autonomy and career development in Far East counties (including Japan, South Korea and China), using diverse methodological research approaches incorporating both quantitative and qualitative paradigms. While much of current research focuses on students' psychology, this volume…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Motivation, Professional Autonomy, English (Second Language)
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Matsunaga, Kaoru; Barnes, Melissa Marie; Saito, Eisuke – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
There has been increasing attention given to the notion that international education consists of non-linear and multi-directional transmissive exchanges between existing institutional academic conditions and international students. Despite the role of international students' agency being paramount, there is a dearth of research on the…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
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Yamamoto, Yoshihiko; Usami, Akinori – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2015
Online course tools such as WebCT or Manaba+R are popularly used in university classes and enhance learners' understanding of their course contents. In addition, teachers try to utilize these online course tools for their students such as giving their students online discussions, providing students with additional materials and so forth. However,…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Higher Education, Integrated Learning Systems
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Wu, Yen-Chun Jim; Shen, Ju-Peng; Kuo, Tsuang – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the holistic picture of sustainability curricula in Asian higher education. Design/methodology/approach: Content analysis was conducted based on Asian management education for sustainability in higher education. Online courses arrangement, teaching methods, instructors' educational background and…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Content Analysis, Administrator Education
Kobe Univ., (Japan). – 1990
The meeting reported here was held to address the issues related to the increasing numbers of foreign students in Japan (31,000 in 1989 and increasing annually by 20%). First, profiles of the speakers and the texts of their speeches are presented, as well as the comments made during the panel discussions and symposium sessions. Speakers from 11…
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Foreign Nationals, Foreign Students
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Toma, Chikako; Rogoff, Barbara – Discourse Processes, 1997
Contrasts two models of instruction: building on ideas in shared endeavors; and transmit-and-test formats. Discusses how these contrasting formats may relate to interactional patterns observed in toddlers and caregivers in a Mayan and a middle-class European-American community; and elementary school children in Japan and the United States. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Comparative Education, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences
Bay, Dale – 1999
This paper describes unique opportunities offered by the Internet for Japanese college students learning to write in English. It focuses on tasks that students were assigned using discussion forums on the Internet. It begins by describing the Web site, which is <http://www.esljapan.com>, looking at software considerations, privacy issues,…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Long, Robert, Ed.; van Troyer, Gene, Ed.; Lane, Keith, Ed.; Swanson, Malcom, Ed. – 2000
These conference proceedings address the following six topics: (1) "Change and the Future" (e.g., English language education in Japan, sociolinguistics in Hong Kong, and Esperanto); (2) "Children and Language Education" (e.g. a short-term language immersion case study, virtual classrooms for bilingual students, and the role of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Audiotape Recordings, Bilingual Students, Childrens Literature