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Timothy Doe – Language Teaching Research, 2025
Language learning activities involving time-pressured repetition of similar content have been shown to facilitate improvements in fluency. However, concerns have been voiced about whether these gains might be offset by reduced levels of grammatical accuracy. This descriptive study tracked the oral proficiency of 32 Japanese university students…
Descriptors: Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tomoko Yabukoshi; Atsushi Mizumoto – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: While self-regulated learning (SRL) strategy-based writing instruction has been proposed in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms, there is insufficient evidence with Japanese EFL learners and little discussion on incorporating online resources into SRL strategy-based writing instruction, despite the availability of various…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Educational Technology, Self Management, Learning Strategies
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
Kanellopoulou, Eurydice-Maria; Darra, Maria – Higher Education Studies, 2019
The lesson study is a teaching practice that was first applied to the educational system of Japan. It is a form of classroom research in which teachers cooperatively plan, teach, observe and share the results in a class lesson. The purpose of this study is to review the effectiveness of the implementation of the lesson study in basic teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Collaboration, Instructional Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Young, Davey; Schaefer, Matthew Y.; Lesley, Jamie – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2019
Students with disabilities (SWD) can encounter a number of challenges in foreign language education, a field in which practitioners are too often untrained in special education. Additionally, there are few resources available for postsecondary foreign language program administrators who wish to systematize support for SWD enrolled in their…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, English (Second Language), English Instruction, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Derible, Albéric; Wiel, Éric – JALT CALL Journal, 2022
The current study focuses on an e-learning platform called Furago designed to provide language instructors with exercises complementing activities already implemented in their classes. Its objective was to assess the impact the use of Furago could have on the listening skills of first-year Japanese university students. Statistical analyses that…
Descriptors: French, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Software
Uchida, Akitoshi; Michael, Robert B.; Mori, Kazuo – AERA Open, 2018
A growing body of correlational research finds a relationship between self-efficacy--beliefs in one's capabilities--and academic success. But few studies have investigated whether self-efficacy is causally related to academic success. We hypothesized that an experience of success would promote self-efficacy in junior high school students and would…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Student Improvement, Junior High School Students
Özdemir, Soner Mehmet – Participatory Educational Research, 2019
Continuous professional development is a process that requires constant and active learning for a teacher throughout his/her professional life. In this process, teachers are expected to perform activities aiming at increasing both their professional development and the quality of teaching within the classroom. One of these is lesson study. This…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Lesson Plans, Faculty Development, Professional Continuing Education
Shimada, Atsushi; Mouri, Kousuke; Taniguchi, Yuta; Ogata, Hiroaki; Taniguchi, Rin-ichiro; Konomi, Shin'ichi – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
In this paper, we focus on optimizing the assignment of students to courses. The target courses are conducted by different teachers using the same syllabus, course design, and lecture materials. More than 1,300 students are mechanically assigned to one of ten courses taught by different teachers. Therefore, mismatches often occur between students'…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Learning Activities, Learning Analytics, Cognitive Style
Agasisti, Tommaso; Avvisati, Francesco; Borgonovi, Francesca; Longobardi, Sergio – OECD Publishing, 2018
Resilience refers to the capacity of individuals to prosper despite encountering adverse circumstances. This paper defines academic resilience as the ability of 15-year-old students from disadvantaged backgrounds to perform at a certain level in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in reading, mathematics and science that…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, Academic Achievement
Lee, Juhee; Song, Jayoung – Language Learning & Technology, 2019
Although a number of studies have investigated study abroad or telecollaboration separately, none to date has included both methods with the aim of differentiating their impacts on the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC). Using mixed methods, the current study compared foreign language learners' perceived ICC development…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Kato, Fumie; Spring, Ryan; Mori, Chikako – Foreign Language Annals, 2016
Providing learners of a foreign language with meaningful opportunities for interactions, specifically with native speakers, is especially challenging for instructors. One way to overcome this obstacle is through video-synchronous computer-mediated communication tools such as Skype software. This study reports quantitative and qualitative data from…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Synchronous Communication, Second Language Learning, Videoconferencing
Prichard, Caleb; Ferreira, Dan – TESOL Journal, 2014
Presentation assignments for second language speakers can take several forms, such as a traditional class presentation or a poster presentation. Poster presentations, which are given repeatedly to small groups, seem to have several advantages, including increased speaking opportunities, more interaction between the speaker and the audience, and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Public Speaking, Group Discussion, Language Proficiency
Hamada, Mayumi – Research-publishing.net, 2014
This is a follow-up study of the Facebook (FB) project conducted from October 2011 to January 2013. The purpose of the project was to investigate how FB can help Japanese university students improve their English, and determine whether FB can facilitate student interaction and learner autonomy by integrating FB activities into English lessons. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, College Students, Followup Studies
Wood, David John – Online Submission, 2015
Despite the stream of directives about improving students' English communicative ability from the Japanese Education Ministry since 2003 [1-4] significant development has remained elusive. One obstacle to communication (as an individual and a cooperative faculty) is the inflexible "one-size-fits-all" philosophy of commercial textbooks…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Writing (Composition), College Students, Foreign Students
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