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Sakurai, Yusuke – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022
This article examines how students' subject knowledge acquired in short-term international courses (SICs) developed while engaging in university studies in the year following their SICs. It also explores factors associated with their engagement and disengagement. Two interviews with a 1-year interval with 25 students revealed their transformations…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Study Abroad, Course Content, Knowledge Level
Kita, Yoko – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2021
This study explores the effective utilization of the online program Forms via smartphones to enrich the classroom experience for both students and teachers in two prep classes for the standardized English Test, Eiken. The instructor used Forms to create, distribute, collect, and analyze surveys and quizzes. Students' attitudes toward English and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Telecommunications
Rose, Heath; Curle, Samantha; Aizawa, Ikuya; Thompson, Gene – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
This article explores the relationship between course performance, English language proficiency, motivation, and academic language skills in an English medium instruction (EMI) university context. It analyses test and questionnaire data from 146 students from an EMI business program at a Japanese university, and follow-up interviews with seven…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction, Language Proficiency
MacWhinnie, Steven G. B.; Mitchell, Colin – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2017
The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science and Technology (MEXT) are facing a plethora of pressures to become more global. This has led MEXT to draw up the 'English Education Reform Plan Corresponding to Globalization.' This education reform plan calls for a move away from grammar translation in favor of a communication based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Anxiety, Educational Change
Gao, Xuesong; Lv, Leining – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2018
This article reports on the motivations of Chinese learners to learn Japanese in light of increasing diplomatic tensions between China and Japan over the last three decades. In the study, 35 Chinese learners of Japanese were selected, according to the time they began learning, to examine their motivations to learn Japanese as mediated by shifting…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Chinese, Japanese, Second Language Learning
Ismailov, Murod; Ono, Yuichi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
Unlike conventional distance learning, the COVID-19-induced emergency online learning environment has resulted in students experiencing prolonged social isolation and anxiety, thereby creating additional barriers to their motivation to learn. Studying under these conditions influences students' motivation to complete and turn in course-related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Learning Motivation, Second Language Learning
Sudina, Ekaterina; Brown, Jason; Datzman, Brien; Oki, Yukiko; Song, Katherine; Cavanaugh, Robert; Thiruchelvam, Bala; Plonsky, Luke – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2021
'Grit' has been identified as an important predictor of success in a number of academic and non-academic domains (Duckworth, A. L., C. Peterson, M. D. Matthews, and D. R. Kelly. 2007. "Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals." "Journal of Personality and Social Psychology" 92: 1087-1101.…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Kato, Fumie; Spring, Ryan; Mori, Chikako – Language Teaching Research, 2023
This quasi-experimental study reports on the outcomes of a video-synchronous learning program in which an element of project-based foreign language learning was integrated. The project chosen was to cooperatively create a homepage. American students learning Japanese in the United States and Japanese students learning English in Japan made pairs…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Student Projects, Active Learning, Videoconferencing
Junn, Hanon – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered formal classrooms and traditional learning environments with many educational institutions forced to teach online. Communicative L2 classes are impacted as in-person, face-to-face interactions are key to developing communicative competence. This qualitative research study investigates if L2…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Communicative Competence (Languages), Teaching Methods
Nishimura, Kazuo; Yagi, Tadashi; Miyamoto, Dai – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
While the study of science subjects at school is essential for the development of science and technology in society, it is a recognized fact that a large number of students show reluctance to study science and mathematics. Thus, it is of great significance to deliberate on ways to increase their interest in science subjects and enhance…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational Experience, Science Interests
Aoyama, Tatsuya; Takahashi, Tomoko – Journal of International Students, 2020
This study examined factors affecting international students' willingness to communicate (WTC) in English as a second language (ESL), focusing on second language (L2) self-confidence, acculturation, and motivational types. L2 self-confidence was hypothesized to predict L2 WTC and to mediate the correlation between acculturation and L2 WTC for…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Acculturation
Gorges, Julia; Koch, Tobias; Maehler, Débora B.; Offerhaus, Judith – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2017
Background: Data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) revealed that countries systematically differ in their respondents' literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology-rich environments skills; skill levels also vary by gender, age, level of education or migration background. Similarly,…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Adults, Learning Motivation, Measures (Individuals)
Self-Regulation and Self-Efficacy for the Improvement of Listening Proficiency outside the Classroom
Yabukoshi, Tomoko – Language Learning Journal, 2021
This paper reports on a qualitative inquiry into Japanese students' self-regulated learning processes to improve their listening proficiency outside the classroom in an English as a foreign language context. Four Japanese university students with different levels of self-efficacy and listening outcomes were closely examined from a social cognitive…
Descriptors: Self Management, Self Efficacy, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Listening Skills
Komatsu, Hikaru; Rappleye, Jeremy – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: Amidst ongoing attempts to think beyond Western frameworks for education, there is a tendency to overlook Japan, perhaps because it appears highly modern. This is striking given that some prominent strands of Japanese philosophy have formulated an explicit and exacting challenge to the core onto-epistemic premises of modern Western…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Western Civilization, Epistemology, Educational Practices
Teo, Timothy; Hoi, Cathy Ka Weng; Gao, Xuesong; Lv, Leining – Modern Language Journal, 2019
In light of popular nationalism on the rise in China and Japan, this inquiry develops and validates a survey instrument to document university students' motivation to learn Japanese in mainland China and explore how the learning of a foreign language may lead to better cross-cultural understanding. A total number of 398 Chinese learners of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Japanese