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Direct linkHiromi 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
Download full textIwata, Jun; Telloyan, John; Murphy, Lynne; Wang, Shudong; Clayton, John – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
Digital portfolios can provide a space where evidence of a learner's competency is stored and digital badges can be used in their portfolios as valid indicators of accomplishment, skill, knowledge, or interest. The authors issued "digital badges" to our students who successfully completed the modules of a Medical English Terminology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrated Learning Systems, Electronic Learning, Online Courses
Taking English outside of the Classroom through Social Networking: Reflections on a Two-Year Project
Ohashi, Louise – Research-publishing.net, 2016
In Japan, like most English as a Foreign Language (EFL) contexts, students have few opportunities to use English in daily life, and this limits their ability to develop their language skills. To address this, many teachers provide homework tasks and guide students towards autonomous learning. In an effort to do the latter, a private Facebook group…
Descriptors: Social Networks, English (Second Language), Females, Questionnaires
Murray, Garold – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
This paper explores pedagogical practices which can support the role of imagination in foreign language learning. Over the past decade, work on self and identity in motivation research--most notably Norton's (2001) imagined communities and Dörnyei's (2009) L2 motivational self system--has suggested that teachers might foster students' motivation…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Imagination
Usuki, Miyuki – 2001
The paper explores the nature of learning, focusing particularly on the theories of Biggs and Teffler (1989) and their research finding that the quality of learning is the result of the motivation for learning, and that this affects the learners' performance. An alternative theory of learning is offered and ideas for improving the teachers' role…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Independent Study, Learning Motivation
Usuki, Miyuki – 2001
From the results of questionnaires, it was found that students in a Japanese English-as-a-Second-Language course tended to be highly motivated to learn. At the same time, however, they did not seem ready for autonomous learning. It is speculated that because of their past learning experiences, where the students were excessively…
Descriptors: College Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
