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Kanako Yamaoka – TESOL Journal, 2024
This study investigates whether Japanese university students' motivation to communicate in English was enhanced through the application of content and language integrated learning (CLIL) practices. Fifty-three non-English majors took a CLIL English class that utilized massive open online course (MOOC) content for a semester. They gave…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Tatsuma Shirai – Latin American Journal of Content and Language Integrated Learning, 2025
This paper presents a soft-CLIL (content and language integrated learning) practice focused on biomimicry, conducted at Japan's National Institute of Technology (NIT). Biomimicry involves solving problems and creating new things by drawing inspiration from animals, plants, and other living organisms to design and enhance human-made products and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Sustainability, Biology
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Philip Cardiff; Malgorzata Polczynska; Tina Brown – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Education is widely recognized as a key domain for the promotion of the sustainable development goals (SDGs), prompting an increased focus on sustainable development in foreign language education. Despite increased attention, guidelines about SDGs are often primarily policy-based without concrete guidance, and the integration of education…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Sustainable Development, Second Language Learning, Sustainability
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Mark Antony de Boer; Dmitri Leontjev – Language Awareness, 2024
Morton's "language knowledge for content teaching" (LKCT) is a powerful tool for understanding interactions in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) classrooms, as well as CLIL teachers' knowledge base and teacher language awareness (TLA). However, often lacking in the body of research on TLA and LKCT is an explicit stance on…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Curtis Chu; Mariko Takahashi – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2024
While various innovative pedagogical methods have been proven effective in facilitating the development of students' English language skills in different contexts, this study explores the implementation of several innovative methods in one EMI course, which includes collaborative online international learning (COIL), content language integrated…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Methods
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Sakamoto, Mitsuyo – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a popular teaching approach that is being enthusiastically adopted across Japan (Ikeda, M. 2019. "CLIL in Comparison with PPP: A Revolution in ELT by Competency-Based Language Education." In "Innovation in Language Teaching and Learning: The Case of Japan," edited by H.…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Vonkova, Hana; Moore, Angie – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2021
Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) and English as a medium of instruction (EMI) are emerging as the preferred contexts of language learning. CLIL and EMI classes continue to proliferate in schools around the globe. The aim of this paper is to investigate the current research trends in studies of motivation to learn within EMI and CLIL…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Content and Language Integrated Learning
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Leontjev, Dmitri; deBoer, Mark Antony – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
In Japan, CLIL instruction falls under a soft-CLIL approach, content serving as secondary to language instruction. Furthermore, assessment in classrooms in Japan is oftentimes limited to assessing the product summatively. In the paper, we argue for the value of focusing on content in CLIL activities and assessing the process with the goal to…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Academic Language
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Egitim, Soyhan – Power and Education, 2022
In recent years, content integrated language education has taken center stage in Japanese university English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) settings. The emphasis on content has created an opportunity for students to demonstrate analytical thinking, assessment, inference, and problem-solving skills through oral communication activities in English…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Lijie Shao; Heath Rose – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In recent decades, English taught programmes have rapidly increased in number throughout Europe and East Asia as universities aim to internationalise their curriculum, which has given rise to an increase in English-medium instruction (EMI). This study aims to compare the teaching experiences at three EMI programmes in The Netherlands, China, and…
Descriptors: Psychological Needs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Akiba, Daisuke – Innovative Higher Education, 2021
Universities across the U.S. have increasingly emphasized internationalization, leading to rising numbers of international students attending U.S. institutions of higher education. However, these students tend to gravitate toward larger research-intensive universities with many other institutions seeing no increase in international student…
Descriptors: Student Recruitment, Foreign Students, College Students, Study Abroad
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Sato, Takanori; Hemmi, Chantal – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2022
The benefit of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) for second language (L2) development has been addressed by second language acquisition theory and investigated by empirical studies. However, previous studies have not demonstrated the effectiveness of CLIL precisely as most of their study participants took CLIL and non-CLIL courses…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Mori, Yoshiko; Hasegawa, Atsushi; Mori, Junko – Language Teaching, 2021
This article updates the trends and developments of Japanese as a second language (JSL) research since Mori and Mori (2011) by reviewing nearly 200 selected empirical studies published in English or Japanese between 2010 and early 2019. The first section of this review examines the cognitive aspects of second language (L2) Japanese development,…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Second Language Learning, Language Research, Japanese
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Montaner-Villalba, Salvador; Lander, Bruce; Morgana, Valentina; Leier, Vera; Selwood, Jaime; Einum, Even; Redondo, Sergio Esteban – Research-publishing.net, 2020
There is no doubt that Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and mobile mediated communication are linked as technology continues to transform the way we communicate with each other. Campbell (2019) analyzed how mobile communication evolved into portable devices to form a complete system of mobile media, reshaping the fabric of our social lives…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Computer Software
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Reinders, Hayo, Ed.; Ryan, Stephen, Ed.; Nakamura, Sachiko, Ed. – New Language Learning and Teaching Environments, 2019
This book examines a wide range of innovations in language learning and teaching in Japan. Each of the chapters describes the impetus for a change or new development in a particular context, from early childhood to adult learning, details its implementation and provides an evaluation of its success. In doing so, they provide a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Instructional Innovation, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)