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Use of the Genuine Progress Indicator in Global Education
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Yoshida, Masami; Khlaisang, Jintavee; Xiong, Chun – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2020
This study examined the effects of introducing a Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) in global education at the university lesson. The indexes of GPI were organised using dashboard indexes of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Data on the students' impression and evaluation scores of their reports were compared. It was found…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Global Approach, Sustainable Development, Student Attitudes
Lexical Coverage in Dialogue Listening
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Giordano, Michael J. – Language Teaching Research, 2023
In this quasi-experimental study, the effects of lexical coverage through pseudo word manipulation in dialogue comprehension are investigated. Forty-four first-year students in a Japanese university listened to five dialogues at different lexical coverage levels: 98%, 95%, 90%, 85%, and 83%. The results of the comprehension tests confirm the…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Listening Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Learning the Causative Alternation in English and Japanese Speakers: Statistical and Non-Statistical Effects
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Huang, Yi Ting; Bounds, Mary; Suzuki, Yuichi – Language Learning and Development, 2019
Children acquire argument structure through distributional evidence, but how does this interacts with event semantics and existing verb knowledge? The current study compares verb learning in adult speakers of Japanese (where lexical causatives span wider semantic categories) and English (where alternation is more restricted). In the Fully…
Descriptors: Verbs, Semantics, Language Acquisition, Japanese
Text Processing and Memory in EFL Reading: The Role of Relevance Instructions
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Yukino Kimura – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2022
This study examined the effects of relevance instructions on English as a foreign language (EFL) readers' text processing and memories. The participants were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: the experimental condition, where they read texts to identify a specific category of information, and the control condition, where they read texts…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Factors Influencing Japanese University Learners' Inferences of Unfamiliar Idiomatic Expressions in Listening
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Baierschmidt, Junko – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Lexical inferencing is considered a listening strategy that is commonly employed by advanced EFL (English as a Foreign Language) listeners and a factor that contributes to successful listening comprehension. However, investigations of the factors that influence inferencing success in listening as well as how much each factor contributes to success…
Descriptors: Inferences, Listening Comprehension, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Language Learning Going Global: Linking Teachers and Learners via Commercial Skype-Based CMC
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Terhune, N. M. – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2016
This paper reports on students' use of face-to-face synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) for oral language learning. It describes a university English language class designed to prepare students for overseas study in which a Skype-based English conversation school was piloted. The study offers analysis of how students used the CMC…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Oral Language