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Taephant, Nattasuda; Rubel, Deborah; Champe, Julia – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2015
This grounded theory research explored the experiences of Western-trained Asian group leaders leading groups in Asia. A total of 6 participants from Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand were interviewed 3 times over 9 months. The recursive process of data collection and analysis yielded substantive theory describing the participants' process of reconciling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grounded Theory, Interviews, Counselor Training
Matsuo, Makoto – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2016
Purpose: Although the relationship between leadership behaviors and team reflexivity has been investigated in prior research, little is known about the dimensions of reflective leadership or leadership behaviors that facilitate reflection in a group or organization. This paper aims to examine the interrelated characteristics of reflective…
Descriptors: Reflection, Leadership Styles, Teamwork, Surveys
Okumura, Shinji – Online Submission, 2017
This case study explored what pre-service teachers learned through authentic experiences of English teaching for primary students, drawing upon the concept of a Community of Practice. A total of 21 pre-service teachers engaged in the training project--including planning, preparing, and teaching lessons--and wrote reflection papers after thinking…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communities of Practice, Preservice Teachers, Interviews
Hiratsuka, Hiroyoshi; Suzuki, Hanako; Pusina, Alexis – Journal of International Students, 2016
One of the current challenges in the field of intercultural education comes from the limited availability of training efficacy studies. The present study focused on explaining the effectiveness of the Contrast Culture Method (CCM) as an intercultural education method for managing interpersonal interactions across cultures between graduate…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Intercultural Communication, Multicultural Education, Graduate Students
Kumazawa, Masako – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2013
This study employed possible selves theory (Markus & Nurius, 1986) to conduct an interpretive inquiry into the teaching motivation of four novice secondary school EFL teachers in Japan. The narrative analysis of the interview data revealed that the conflicts between the young teachers' different possible selves negatively affected their…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
Sykes, Joe – Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 2011
This qualitative study aims to develop and evaluate a tool which can be used to help learners autonomously reflect upon their implicitly held learner beliefs, with a view to promoting language learning practices appropriate to the individual and addressing any issues of learner beliefs which may be preventing effective learning. Metaphor was…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Qualitative Research
Floris, Flora Debora – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2013
Masaki Oda is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tamagawa University in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in Sociopolitical Aspects of Language Use. Prof. Oda got his PhD program from Georgetown University, where he also taught Japanese for several years. He returned to Japan in 1990 and began teaching EFL and training EFL teachers at Tamagawa…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Nationals, English Teachers, Second Language Instruction
Fukuda, Eri; Suzuki, Mitsuko; Hashimoto, Shinichi; Okazak, Hironobu – Research-publishing.net, 2014
In this study, the researchers examined how 64 university students engaged in self-directed group learning and used a self-developed e-portfolio system. A sixweek event was held where the students made entries to the e-portfolio individually each week, received feedback from advisors, studied in groups on a voluntary basis, and reflected on their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Portfolios (Background Materials), Electronic Publishing
Herrera, Tony Isaac – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative case study was designed to explore whether and how a sample of domestic and international managers use two key adult education concepts--critical reflection and experiential learning--to influence changes in individual employees whom they coach. The study is based on the primary assumption that although managers do not…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Focus Groups, Learning Strategies, Adult Education
Gorsuch, Greta J.; Beglar, David – TESL-EJ, 2004
Second language acquisition (SLA) courses are a perennial feature of graduate level teacher preparation programs in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. While there has been recent interest in exploring the interfaces of second language acquisition research and classroom teaching (Ellis, 1997), the teaching of SLA courses at the university level is…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Graduate Study, Teacher Education