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Yuanyuan Yang; Rwitajit Majumdar; Huiyong Li; Brendan Flanagan; Hiroaki Ogata – Interactive Learning Environments, 2024
Self-directed learning (SDL) requires students to take initiative to learn and control their own learning process. Literature highlights the importance of SDL for lifelong learning. Yet, little understanding is known regarding how to support SDL at the school level, specifically for out-of-class learning context. To fill up this gap, this research…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Independent Study, Learning Processes, Reading Habits
Hirose, Yayoi – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2022
This study aims to address how practitioners successfully implement action learning in organizations with different cultural values. To effectively adopt action learning, Japanese learners need to learn questioning skills, as they have been brought up in an atmosphere that negates questioning. Using Kolb's learning model, this study aims to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Asian Culture, Educational Environment, Foreign Countries
Sinha, Tanmay – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2022
Background: Problem-solving followed by instruction (PS-I) is a powerful design shown to transform students' conceptual understanding and transfer. Within PS-I, no research has examined how moment-by-moment determinants of affective states impact the problem-solving phase and posttest performance. Methods: I develop a multimodal learning analytics…
Descriptors: College Students, Problem Solving, Instruction, Emotional Response
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
Yurika Ito – JALT CALL Journal, 2024
As emerging technologies rapidly evolve, language teachers in the 21st century face an increasing challenge in determining how to integrate them into their language classrooms. The existing literature emphasises that a crucial element for successful technology integration is for teachers to hold sufficient proficiency in technology and adopt…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Language Teachers, Faculty Development
Wiboolyasarin, Watcharapol; Jinowat, Nattawut; Wiboolyasarin, Kanokpan; Kamonsawad, Ruedee; Tiranant, Phornrat; Boonyakitanont, Poomipat – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2023
The use of three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVWs) in language education has been widely acknowledged in the field, and researchers have expressed a growing interest in their proliferation in second language (L2) learning and instruction. In order to improve the Thai-speaking abilities of learners of Thai as a foreign language (TFL) in three…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Cross Cultural Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Shintaku, Kayo – Foreign Language Annals, 2022
Due to its accessibility and popularity, anime has been explored as a motivation for learning Japanese and as a pedagogical tool linking Japanese-as-a-foreign-language (JFL) literacy practices inside and outside of the classroom. However, JFL learners' actual practices in anime-mediated self-directed learning have not been fully investigated.…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Japanese, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Sekiguchi, Yasuhiro – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
International comparative studies on mathematics teaching and learning often provide unitary and harmonious images of classroom practices. This paper aims to complement those studies by describing the complex aspects of those practices. Adopting activity theory as a framework, this paper considers classroom teaching and learning of mathematics as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
Ueno, Junko – TESL-EJ, 2019
There is a common belief that one could quickly improve their second language proficiency once they reside in the country where the target language is spoken, because they have opportunities to use it constantly in an immersion environment. However, scholars have argued that it may be up to the individual student whether she could effectively…
Descriptors: Case Studies, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Rappleye, Jeremy; Komatsu, Hikaru – Oxford Review of Education, 2018
East Asian dominance in international large-scale assessments is widely known. This is often explained as an outcome of highly competitive, exam-oriented education systems in East Asia, wherein students partake in a fierce competition for limited college entrance. Although achievement scores may be comparatively higher, the argument goes, the…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, Cross Cultural Studies, Competition, High Stakes Tests
Yabukoshi, Tomoko – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Purpose: This study proposed a metacognition-inclusive self-regulated learning (SRL) approach to out-of-class listening practice and explored its impact on learners' listening performance and their reported use of self-regulatory listening strategies. Design/methodology/approach: Participants comprised 45 students learning English at a university…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Metacognition, Intervention, Listening Comprehension Tests
Inprasitha, Maitree – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2022
Purpose: This research explores the "transformation" ideas of Japanese Lesson Study (LS) and Open Approach (OA) to create and sustain a Thailand LS incorporated OA (TLSOA) model to successfully adapt to the local contexts. Although LS is spreading globally, previous studies have identified several challenges to its implementation.…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Longitudinal Studies, Models, Undergraduate Students
Sybing, Roehl – Classroom Discourse, 2023
The contemporary literature regarding dialogic classroom interaction has primarily focused on the meaning-making attributes of dialogue while acknowledging but otherwise providing less emphasis to the social dimensions of the learning community and the dialogic resources that students bring to the classroom. As a result, this paper explores the…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Classroom Communication, Native Language, Japanese
Hirofumi Asada – Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
The focus of this study is to explore the relationship between the linguistic and cultural learning processes that four female Chinese university exchange students perceived in Japan over one academic year. Two data collection instruments were employed: participants' diary entries and follow-up interviews with the four participants during the…
Descriptors: Diaries, Females, Educational Experience, Student Attitudes
Empowering Economic Development: Integrating Economic-Related Issues into Secondary School Curricula
Amir Toghyani Khorasgani; Jahanbakhsh Rahmani; Narges Keshtiaray – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
In today's rapidly evolving global economy, it is essential to equip young learners with the necessary skills and knowledge to thrive in the workforce and contribute to economic development. Education is a vital driver of human capital and development in countries, and the effectiveness of any educational system depends heavily on its curriculum.…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Secondary School Students, Educational Objectives, Teaching Methods