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Suzuki, Shungo; Yasuda, Toshinori; Hanzawa, Keiko; Kormos, Judit – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2022
Our study investigated the role of creativity in second language (L2) speech production using a picture narrative and an open-ended argumentative task administered to 60 Japanese-speaking learners of English. Following recent findings in the field of psychology, the participants' creativity was assessed in terms of cognitive dimensions (divergent…
Descriptors: Creativity, Speech Skills, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
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Yiling Dai; Heinz Ulrich Hoppe; Brendan Flanagan; Kyosuke Takami; Hiroaki Ogata – Smart Learning Environments, 2024
Educational recommender systems have been supporting personalized learning in various ways. However, less discussion is conducted about whether and how to personalize the strategies to generate recommendations based on student differences. In this study, we aim at investigating how students judge recommendations based on different strategies, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Characteristics, Individual Differences
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Rivers, Damian J.; Ross, Andrew S. – Language Learning Journal, 2020
While mainstream psychology has made significant advances into the understanding of personality, applied linguistics research has offered a more muted response (Dörnyei and Ryan 2015) despite Bandura (2001:10) declaring that self-efficacy beliefs represent 'the foundation of human agency'. The study documented within this article therefore…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Personality Traits, Japanese, English (Second Language)
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Hagihara, Mayuko; Kato, Daiki – College Student Journal, 2018
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality and resilience. The HEXACO personality model was employed; it includes six personality factors: honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. The Bidimensional Resilience Scale, which measures innate and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Resilience (Psychology), Females, College Students
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Hashimoto, Yuko; Toda, Yuichi – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
The present study examined whether young children demonstrated consistencies in their allocation patterns across distributions of positive and negative resources. Preschool children from younger (age 4-5) and elder (age 5-6) classrooms were asked to allocate rewards when one person contributed more than the other and to allocate the responsibility…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preschool Education, Rewards, Justice
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Lijie Shao; Heath Rose – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In recent decades, English taught programmes have rapidly increased in number throughout Europe and East Asia as universities aim to internationalise their curriculum, which has given rise to an increase in English-medium instruction (EMI). This study aims to compare the teaching experiences at three EMI programmes in The Netherlands, China, and…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Iimura, Shuhei; Kibe, Chieko – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Some researchers indicate that the transition to high school deflects adolescent developmental trajectories. Others assert that it provides a new possibility for the promotion of adolescents' socioemotional well-being. One critical view missing in such claims is that individual variabilities interact with environmental influences. We employed the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Adolescents, Student Adjustment
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Delany, Danielle E.; Cheung, Rebecca R. M.; Takahashi, Yusuke; Cheung, Cecilia S. – Creativity Research Journal, 2019
Our research examined whether adolescents in the United States, China, and Japan differed in their conceptions of a creative person. Participants were American (n = 321), Chinese (n = 235), and Japanese (n = 393) adolescents in 7th and 8th grades who completed surveys at 3 time points. Using an open-ended questionnaire, adolescents were asked to…
Descriptors: Creativity, Grade 7, Grade 8, Cross Cultural Studies
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Huang, Futao – Higher Education Quarterly, 2018
This study aims to identify the major characteristics and motivations of foreign faculty at Japanese universities. The study begins with a brief introduction to the literature, research framework and method. In the second section, the study deals with the background and changes in foreign faculty at Japanese universities since 1980. In the third…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Universities, Foreign Countries
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Tan, Wai Kian; Umemoto, Minoru – Education Sciences, 2021
In this globalization-focused era, the demand for globalized engineers in the creation of borderless societies is increasing. Despite the initiatives by the Japanese government to promote internalization through increasing the intake of foreign students, the exposures gained by the Japanese students from these programs are minimal. For years,…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Internship Programs, Global Approach, Cultural Pluralism
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Egitim, Soyhan; Garcia, Travis – English Language Teaching, 2021
This study aims to understand Japanese university students' perceptions of foreign English teachers (FETs) through a two-phased exploratory sequential mixed-methods design. During the initial phase, a quantitative survey was performed with first and second-year Japanese university students (n=377). Despite a lack of precision and a high dispersion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Language Teachers
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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
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Rivers, Damian J. – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2020
Language is one of the most critical factors in the formation and maintenance of national identities. Situated within the national context of Japan and drawing data from a population of 292 Japanese university students, this study departs with three objectives. First, the study assesses the contribution of Japanese national identity to criterion…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Self Concept, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Sponseller, Aaron C. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Conventional folk wisdom insists study abroad is an inherently valuable educational experience for young people. While traditional study abroad programs were typically a semester or a full year in duration, short-term study abroad programs of only a couple weeks are now the most common type of sojourn abroad. Problematically, evidence is mounting…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Language Proficiency, Educational Experience, Outcomes of Education
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Furutani, Kaichiro; Kawamoto, Taishi; Alimardani, Maryam; Nakashima, Ken'ichiro – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
We examined the factorial structure and validity of a Japanese version of the Parental Burnout Assessment, the PBA-J, with 1,500 Japanese parents. The Parental Burnout Assessment measures burnout using four dimensions: exhaustion in one's parental role, contrast in parental self, feelings of being fed up, and emotional distancing. Confirmatory…
Descriptors: Burnout, Factor Analysis, Parent Attitudes, Factor Structure
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