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Zhang, Leticia-Tian; Cassany, Daniel – Comunicar: Media Education Research Journal, 2019
While research on Western multimedia platforms, such as YouTube, is prolific and interdisciplinary, Asian portals remain unknown. We explore this field by analyzing the juvenile and intercultural uses of a popular visualization system in Japan and China, known as "danmaku" or "danmu". This technology inserts dynamic and…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Foreign Countries, Spanish, Discourse Analysis
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Fukuda, Makiko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This study explores the degree of language knowledge of Japanese living in Catalonia and their perceptions of the two particular languages used in this multilingual/bilingual society. The data on language proficiency was obtained via a questionnaire survey which was evaluated by the subjects themselves and analysed by means of correspondence…
Descriptors: Asians, Interviews, Language Usage, Spanish
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Meniado, Joel C. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2019
Many Filipino migrant workers (overseas Filipino workers) in their status as adult learners struggle in learning the local language of their host countries to native-like proficiency level. With the aim of establishing a second language (L2) acquisition pattern that may be useful in designing responsive adult training and welfare programs, this…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Adult Learning, Second Language Learning, Language Usage
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Schwieter, John W.; Ferreira, Aline; Miller, Paul Chamness – Intercultural Education, 2018
English-speaking learners of L2 Spanish who were taking part in a four-week study abroad program in Spain and Japanese-speaking learners of L2 English who were individually studying in year-long abroad experiences participated in the present study. Quantitative and qualitative data from language questionnaires and contact profiles along with…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning
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Montaner-Villalba, Salvador; Lander, Bruce; Morgana, Valentina; Leier, Vera; Selwood, Jaime; Einum, Even; Redondo, Sergio Esteban – Research-publishing.net, 2020
There is no doubt that Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and mobile mediated communication are linked as technology continues to transform the way we communicate with each other. Campbell (2019) analyzed how mobile communication evolved into portable devices to form a complete system of mobile media, reshaping the fabric of our social lives…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Computer Software
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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)
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Chong, Sin Wang, Ed.; Reinders, Hayo, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2023
This edited book documents practices of learning-oriented language assessment through practitioner research and research syntheses. Learning-oriented language assessment refers to language assessment strategies that capitalise on learner differences and their relationships with the learning environments. In other words, learners are placed at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Tests, Evaluation Methods, Student Centered Learning
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Snape, Neal; García-Mayo, Maria Del Pilar; Gurel, Ayse – International Journal of English Studies, 2013
This study examines second language (L2) acquisition of English generic noun phrases (NPs) by Spanish, Turkish and Japanese learners. The aim is to identify the role of the first language (L1) in the L2 acquisition of definite NP-level generics and indefinite sentence-level generics with singular, bare plural, and mass generic nouns. The four…
Descriptors: Native Language, Transfer of Training, Second Language Learning, Nouns
Carson, Arthur L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Because of close relations between the Philippines and the United States in the earlier years of this century, developments in the Philippines since that country achieved its independence in 1946 are of particular interest to Americans. An important aspect of the island nation's efforts in its first 15 years of complete self-government is the…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Politics of Education, Economic Factors