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Brief Research Report: The Impact of a Utility-Value Intervention on Students' Engagement
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Takayuki Goto – Journal of Experimental Education, 2024
The present study investigated the impact of a utility-value intervention on students' behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement. Students assigned to the intervention condition were required to write an essay to connect the course contents with their personal hobbies, interests, or goals three times during the course. The results showed…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learner Engagement, Assignments, Student Behavior
Developing L2 Listening Comprehension through Extensive and Intensive Listening
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Karlin, Omar; Karlin, Sayaka – AILA Review, 2023
In the fall semester of 2020, 269 Japanese university students were compared in a quasi-experimental study to determine whether extensive and intensive listening interventions yielded significant gains in L2 listening comprehension. At the beginning of the study, 269 students took a 100-item L2 listening exam, and were randomly placed into an…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Listening Comprehension, Comparative Analysis
"I Understood the Words but I Didn't Know What They Meant": Japanese Online MBA Students' Experiences of British Assessment Practices
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Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark; van Mourik, Carien – Open Learning, 2016
We report on a case study of high Japanese student failure rates in an online MBA programme. Drawing on interviews, and reviews of exam and assignment scripts we frame the problems faced by these students in terms of a "language as social practice" approach and highlight the students' failure to understand the specific language games…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Business Administration Education, Distance Education, Case Studies