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Direct linkRobert M. Higgins – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2025
This study explored a contemporary period of Japanese higher education policy planning that adopted internationalisation of higher education as a metanarrative for sociocultural change in Japan. These wider societal pressures have over a period of time contributed to increasing institutional resistance to top-down policy initiatives. Further,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Higher Education, Professional Autonomy
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Download full textDickinson, Paul – Research-publishing.net, 2018
Writing is an essential literacy skill that is crucial to meeting various social demands. It is also extremely difficult to master, especially for learners of an additional language who face significant barriers to learning. Universal Design for Learning (UDL), is an instructional framework promoted as an effective means of removing such barriers.…
Descriptors: English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Access to Education
Cotter, Matthew; Hinkelman, Don – Research-publishing.net, 2019
Assessing student presentations can be made more reliable with video-recording and post-performance rating. Further, self assessment and peer assessment can aid in the learning process by students when using specific, easy-to-understand rubrics. A ten-year action research study involved video-recorded performance assessment tasks using a free,…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Video Technology, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Peer Evaluation
Simmons, Thomas L. – 1995
A 13- to 15-week practical reading and writing course in English for a large 2-year, postsecondary vocational college in Tokyo, Japan was designed to train and educate the students to locate, acquire, comprehend, master and use the material employed in their chosen professions. The vocational college specializes in training translators,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Course Descriptions
Layzer, Carolyn; Sharkey, Judy – 1996
Experiences in teaching a first-year reading course in the intensive English program at Kansai Gaidai Junior College (Japan) are discussed. In the period described, there were six classes of 16 students each. A proficiency-oriented approach incorporating a learner development component was adopted to facilitate the transition from traditional…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Freshmen, Course Descriptions
Hayes, Tom; Cargile, Jill – 1998
This paper discusses the use of standardized testing in a university-based executive training program in Japan. The program is an English language, cross-cultural, and business training program offered to Japanese and Chinese businesspersons preparing to enter the international business world. Reports on students, sent to their companies,…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Business Communication, Course Descriptions, Cross Cultural Training
