Japanese EFL
A self-determination theory approach to technology-enhanced out-of-class language learning intention: A case of Japanese EFL learners
... the Japanese students’ cultural beliefs and educational ...learners, Japanese EFL learners are accustomed to the teacher-centered learning environments (Hirata, ...
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Learning from Analysis of Japanese EFL Texts
... (corpora), many educators realise the potential for employing such resources in order to support teaching. An obvious application lies in language teaching, wherein available textual resources may serve as examples or ...
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The Organization of the Senses of Polysemy in Japanese EFL Learners’ Mental Lexicon
... of Japanese EFL learners classify the var- ious senses of basic polysemous words and to compare their categorization with sense classification based on a linguistic ...
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Psychological Expertise Required for Advising in Language Learning: Theories and Practical Skills for Japanese EFL Learners’ Trait Anxiety and Perfectionism
... This study aims to introduce the psychological expertise required for advising in language learning (ALL) both in theoretical and practical aspects, focusing on two psychological factors that could frequently cause ...
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Use of Lexical Stress during Oral Reading among Japanese EFL Learners
... whether Japanese EFL learners place lexical stress appro- priately in oral ...between Japanese and L1-Eng- lish participants across the two reading ...intermediate EFL readers more or less ...
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Differential effects of instruction on the development of second language comprehensibility, word Stress, rhythm, and intonation: the case of inexperienced Japanese EFL learners
... Motivated by a growing number of studies on L2 suprasegmental instruction (typically involving intermediate-to-advanced ESL learners) (e.g., Derwing et al., 1998, Derwing et al., 2014), the current study examined the ...
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Reading Aloud Performance and Listening Ability in an L2: The Case of College Level Japanese EFL Users
... among Japanese EFL learners, which has generally found that reading aloud significantly improves silent reading rate (Suzuki, 1998), reading performance (Miyasako, 2008), and re- production of key words and ...
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Raising awareness of unstressed words for dictation accuracy: A study on the effects of task and Japanese EFL learners’ proficiency and attitude
... 578 Japanese EFL learners, who were at mixed proficiency levels and had different fields of study, and the instructors taught both control groups and experimental groups to control instructor influence ...
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Applying translanguaging techniques in Japanese EFL settings
... Although monolingual classrooms are considered the norm in Japan according to Ford (2009), this study shows that allowing for bilingual usage in the classroom through the implementation of translanguaging could be ...
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MOTIVATION AND COMMUNICATIVE ATTITUDES AMONG JAPANESE EFL PUPILS
... the Japanese language is not inadequate for science, technology, and ...for Japanese elementary schools without adequate preparation, motivating pupils will be more ...
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THE MOTIVATIONAL MODEL OF YOUNG JAPANESE EFL LEARNERS: AFTER GETTING LESSONS BY HOMEROOM TEACHERS
... In Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) revised its curriculum guidelines in 2008, and it mandated that a new foreign language curriculum would officially start in ...
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Providing Comprehension Clues in L1 to Japanese EFL Summary Writers: Do they help?
... These tables show that the students provided with L1 glos- sary (Group B) reported being satisfied with the provision of L1 glossary than those provided L1 translation (Group A) because not all students in Group A ...
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To What Extent Does Accent Sensitivity Provide the Foundation for Lexical Knowledge and Listening Comprehension?
... for Japanese university students learning English as a foreign language ...by Japanese EFL students is isolated from their lexical knowledge, with no contribution to their ability for listening ...
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An exploratory study for factorial validity of cognitive styles among Japanese adult EFL learners: from educational and cultural perspectives
... of Japanese EFL ...to Japanese EFL learners, academic research seems to have lost interest at a very early ...to Japanese EFL learners ’ learning and cognitive ...in ...
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Speech Perception of Text-To-Speech English Sounds by Japanese High School Students
... [39] revealed that speech perception by humans showed a half-value in pitch, which implies that human speech perception is not accurate and yields different results in an acoustic analysis by a speech analyzer. The ...
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Euphemism in English and Japanese : a pragmatic contrastive study
... The study investigates euphemistic forms and functions of English and Japanese in a contrastive analysis perspective and the views of Japanese EFL English as a Foreign Language students [r] ...
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A longitudinal investigation of the relationship between motivation and late second language speech learning in classroom settings
... survey Japanese learners of English in a broad sense (including both secondary and post-secondary students; ...study—Japanese EFL university ...
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An examination of EFL learning motivation in Japanese engineering students.
... perspective, measuring many of the established motivational variables that have come to be considered foundational in the field. The findings revealed significant variations across yearly cohorts in a number of ...
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Vol 9, No 5 (2018)
... While some, but not many, previous studies have made efforts to discover realistic coping strategies that learners are making actual use of in learning situations, there are, unfortunately, very few findings on the true ...
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Vol 16, No 10 (2017)
... nine Japanese historical EFL textbooks and their current counterpart, by using a correspondence analysis (CA), focusing on their similarities / ...of Japanese EFL ...
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