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Atsushi Iida – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This qualitative, case-study research explores the English language learning history of a Japanese pre-service teacher by analysing five English-language poems and a self-reflective essay regarding her experiences of learning the target language. The methodology chosen in this study was a poetic inquiry through which the investigator reconstructed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Learning Experience, Second Language Learning
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David Allen – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2020
Loanwords in Japanese that share form and meaning with English words are referred to as "Japanese-English cognates" (e.g., [Japanese symbol omitted] "radio") and are of fundamental concern for researchers concerned with vocabulary learning and instruction. This concern is reflected in the growing body of research into…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Matsunaga, Kaoru; Barnes, Melissa Marie; Saito, Eisuke – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
There has been increasing attention given to the notion that international education consists of non-linear and multi-directional transmissive exchanges between existing institutional academic conditions and international students. Despite the role of international students' agency being paramount, there is a dearth of research on the…
Descriptors: International Education, Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
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Raymond Stubbe; Yumiko Cochrane – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2019
One of the many challenges facing Japanese university students studying English is the multi-word phrase. The English language contains a large number of such multiple-word items, which act as single words with a single meaning. This study is concerned with evaluating the efficacy of yes/no checklist tests to assess knowledge of multi-word units.…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Word Lists, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language)
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Ohashi, Yumi – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
This article seeks to apply the informal learning theory of guided participation to the formal primary L2 classroom. Utilising the concept of guided participation, in which the process of learning is defined as a collaborative interaction between expert and novice leading to a transformation of participation in community activity, the author…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Processes
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Berwick, Richard – 1993
A study investigated the use of content-based tasks as central and peripheral in second language instruction. Specifically, it examined the relative effects of such tasks that were either central to the syllabus, as sources of knowledge or skills in their own right, or peripheral, as occasional source of language practice. The study was conducted…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Discourse Analysis