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Ran Jiao – Journal of International Students, 2025
Japan has become the most popular study destination among non-English-speaking countries in Asia. Within the broader literature on students' personal motivation and parental influence, this study examines how Chinese students construct motivational factors when Japan is chosen as their study destination. In this study, 17 participants at a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Decision Making, Student Motivation
Oana Negru-Subtirica – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Educational identity has been studied increasingly in the past decades since school is a structured context that shapes adolescent identity formation. Across the academic years, adolescents learn to position themselves in terms of their education and schooling, perceiving these entities as more or less relevant for their self-formation. In this…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Longitudinal Studies, Foreign Countries, Adolescent Development
Tongrui Liu; Yuriko Sato – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2024
This study compared the career choices, contributions, and challenges of Chinese graduates of Japanese and Australian universities who returned to China, and it explored the factors that influenced them based on the life planning model. The mixed-method approach was adopted by combining the results of 208 questionnaire responses and 13…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Career Development
Huang, Futao; Chen, Lilan – Journal of International and Comparative Education, 2022
Given the criticism of the institutional practices of Japan's higher education institutions on international students' learning experiences, the study attempts to investigate why international students still chose to study at Japanese universities and whether they benefited from this experience. It also explores whether they benefit from this…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, College Students, Educational Experience, Barriers
Liu, Tongrui; Sato, Yuriko; Breaden, Jeremy – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to compare Chinese students' educational and career trajectories in Japan and Australia and to explore the factors that have influenced their choices that shaped their trajectories. Design/methodology/approach: The authors applied the push-pull and life planning models to compare the factors that shaped the Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Academic Aspiration, Career Development
Hiroshi Nakagawa; Michael Kelland; Daniel Lumley – rEFLections, 2024
This paper presents a midterm review of a 4-year factor analysis project aimed at validating an outcome-based assessment of study-abroad programs attended by Japanese students. This paper outlines how the results from the initial two years captured changes in perceptions and reasons for studying abroad. It found that students have become…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
Nathaniel Carney – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The current study investigated 29 first-year Japanese university students' usage of an online vocabulary notebook that automatically searched eight different word and phrase lists to provide students with reference information about their self-selected vocabulary. Over the course of a 14-week period, participants read English books and articles…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
Minamizaki, Noriko – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2017
Product development of Japanese companies has changed greatly from the post-war revival period, when it was promoted mainly to provide low-cost, high-quality products. In recent years, it has become necessary to develop products and services that correspond to social issues. Research and development has shifted from a technological basis to a…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Research and Development, Material Development, Manufacturing
Takeshita, Hiroshi; Ohtani, Tetsuhiro – Psychology of Education Review, 2020
Purpose: In Japan, high school students who seek employment can apply to only one company at a time at the school's recommendation, and cannot decline a job offer. This shortens the time available for helping students' career selection process, resulting in problems related to effective support and students' consent. Nonetheless, the actual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Employment, Decision Making
Schwarts, Gil; Coles, Alf; Arcavi, Abraham – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2022
With the proliferation of video-based professional development (PD) courses for mathematics teachers, understanding the role of the facilitators of these courses has become an emerging field of theoretical and empirical study. The purpose of this article is to address some of the challenges and opportunities that facilitation of discussions…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Video Technology
Lockwood, Meghan – Educational Leadership, 2018
Teacher-led inquiry cycles--in which small groups of teachers study and address a promise--hold promise as a method of professional development, but only if they receive enough support. In particular, they need access to outside expertise that can help them meaningfully change instructional practices--often a difficult step for teachers working on…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Partnerships in Education, Teamwork, Faculty Development
Eguchi, Masaki; Suzuki, Shungo; Suzuki, Yuichi – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
This study investigated the constructs underlying second language (L2) word association (WA) with regard to three dimensions of lexical competence--size, organization, and accessibility--and the lexical performance of speech. One-hundred and thirteen Japanese learners of English completed a computer-delivered oral WA task along with three…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Associative Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Huang, Futao – Higher Education Quarterly, 2018
This study aims to identify the major characteristics and motivations of foreign faculty at Japanese universities. The study begins with a brief introduction to the literature, research framework and method. In the second section, the study deals with the background and changes in foreign faculty at Japanese universities since 1980. In the third…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Foreign Nationals, Universities, Foreign Countries
Nakata, Tatsuya; Elgort, Irina – Second Language Research, 2021
Studies examining decontextualized associative vocabulary learning have shown that long spacing between encounters with an item facilitates learning more than short or no spacing, a phenomenon known as distributed practice effect. However, the effect of spacing on learning words in context is less researched and the results, so far, are…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Translation, Japanese, Second Language Learning
Schmidt, William H.; Houang, Richard T.; Sullivan, William F.; Cogan, Leland S. – OECD Publishing, 2022
The OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 (E2030) project's overall goal is that of looking to the future in terms of how school curricula should evolve given the technological advances and other changes that societies are now facing. Towards that end, the E2030 project centres on the idea that education needs to equip students with the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Futures (of Society), Mathematics Curriculum, Educational Trends