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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
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Hiromi Nishioka – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2024
With rapid globalization, it is an urgent task for universities in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context to provide practical English education. Particularly, one that enables students to participate in the global society as well as the global business market. The challenge for these universities is to achieve this goal with limited class…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Robert Kirkpatrick; Junko Kirkpatrick; Ali Derakhshan – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2024
Given the importance of academic motivation, numerous inquiries have scrutinized the antecedents of this psycho-emotional variable in various educational environments. Nonetheless, the role of students' attitudes in their academic motivation has remained elusive. Put simply, it is unclear whether students' attitudes can make positive changes in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Elementary School Students
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Ekin, Cansu Cigdem; Gul, Abdulmenaf – International Journal of Technology in Education, 2022
This research aims to conduct a bibliometric study to describe how game-based educational research is structured and how it has evolved over time. For this purpose, bibliometric analysis has been used to analyze 4980 publications indexed by the Elsevier SCOPUS database between 1967 and May 2021. The related publications were evaluated by analyzing…
Descriptors: Bibliometrics, Game Based Learning, Educational Research, Publications
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Fryer, Luke K.; Bovee, H. Nicholas – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
Motivations-beliefs for learning and their relationship to instructional experiences are a poorly understood aspect of higher education. Notably, interest is an individual difference that both researchers and educators alike believe should be supported. However, this support is too often relegated to the craft of instruction. To be enhanced…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Learning Motivation, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
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Matsunobu, Koji – Research Studies in Music Education, 2023
Reflecting their dominance within music education, most musical instruments used in schools are of Western origin. In stark contrast, the adoption of folk instruments for the purposes of facilitating students' music-making and learning in the educational context is rarely encountered. This article reports the empirical data of a study in which a…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Musical Instruments, Music Education, Usability
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Matsuo, Makoto – International Journal of Training and Development, 2021
Personal growth initiative (PGI), i.e., self-change skills, is necessary for employees to adapt to changing environments, but research examining the antecedents of PGI in an organizational context is limited. The present research investigated the antecedents of PGI in the workplace. Using a two-wave questionnaire survey, data were collected from…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Individual Development, Employee Attitudes, Health Personnel
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Aubrey, Scott; King, Jim; Almukhaild, Haydab – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2022
Learner engagement is crucial for ensuring the quality of learning experiences, and yet the study of 'task engagement' has received relatively little empirical attention in the language education domain. This article reports on a study exploring the factors contributing to learners' engagement and disengagement during task performance in an…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Time on Task, English (Second Language), College Students
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Ana Sofia Hofmeyr – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
In Japan, calls for students to become global human resources (GHR) has placed pressure on universities to internationalise. Traditionally, Japanese universities have relied on student mobility to foster GHR, but a decline in mobility numbers has highlighted the need for educators and administrators to consider how an intercultural mindset can be…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
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Mathis, Bryan J.; Mayers, Thomas; Miyamasu, Flaminia – Education Sciences, 2022
Recently, Japanese medical students are expected to acquire a high degree of English proficiency with the tacit understanding that it will feature in their future profession through interactions with non-Japanese patients and/or engagement with medical research. However, to the best of our knowledge, the motivation of Japanese medical students to…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Motivation, Vocational English (Second Language)
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Mori, Setsuko; Gobel, Peter – English Language Teaching, 2021
The present study explored whether two semester overseas study programs had any impact on participants' language ability and motivation to study English. The language ability, L2 learning motivation and learning attitude of 65 Japanese university students participating in semester-long study abroad programs were measured pre departure and on their…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Language Proficiency, Student Motivation, English (Second Language)
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Makoto Mitsugi; Masahiro Yoshimura; Tomohito Hiromori; Ryo Kirimura – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2024
This study compares two leadership styles, emergent leader (EL) and assigned leader (AL), to explore effective leadership in second language (L2) group work. ELs were spontaneously chosen by the group, while ALs were pre-assigned by teachers before the task. The study involved 45 university students, who were divided into seven EL groups (n = 21)…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Group Dynamics, Learning Motivation, Behavior Patterns
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Shintaku, Kayo – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Due to its accessibility and popularity, anime has been explored as a motivation for learning Japanese and as a pedagogical tool linking Japanese-as-a-foreign-language (JFL) literacy practices inside and outside of the classroom. However, JFL learners' actual practices in anime-mediated self-directed learning have not been fully investigated.…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Foster, Henry; Reinders, Hayo – rEFLections, 2023
Despite progress in recent years, Japanese classrooms continue to present challenges for educators seeking to promote language learner autonomy. Adopting an action research/case study design, the present study explored how, in a 5-week student-led project, an intact group of learners could contribute to the development of their own autonomy. Data…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Independent Study, Group Dynamics, Student Attitudes
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McCarthy, Andrew; Farr, Fiona – TESL-EJ, 2022
Role models and motivators can influence young people in a general sense and have a significant effect on their values and beliefs. As part of a larger project, we investigated the presence of L2 (second language) role models and motivators among 12 Japanese high school students (aged between 15 and 18), who took part in one-to-one interviews with…
Descriptors: Role Models, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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