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Yoshida, Reiko – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2022
The paper examines the emotions of 15 learners of Japanese across seven weekly online text chats in Japanese with native Japanese speakers, and the factors that caused their emotions. The data came from questionnaires about the learners' biodata and previous experiences of text chats, weekly reports about their chats, transcripts of the chats, and…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Second Language Learning, Japanese, Synchronous Communication
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Yamashita, Taichi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
The present quasi-experimental study investigated the comparative effects of metalinguistic clue (MC) and metalinguistic explanation (ME) on the accurate use of Japanese transaction expressions. The study recruited 25 learners in a second-semester Japanese course (i.e. non-introduced group) and 17 students in a fourth-semester course (i.e.…
Descriptors: Cues, Metalinguistics, Prior Learning, Oral Language
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Nesbitt, Dallas – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2013
This article discusses the comparative effectiveness of student input at different times during the design of CALL tools for learning kanji, the Japanese characters of Chinese origin. The CALL software "package" consisted of tools to facilitate the writing, reading and practising of kanji characters in context. A pre-design questionnaire…
Descriptors: Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Japanese
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Kitade, Keiko – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2012
Internet-mediated intercultural discussions have been adopted for intercultural and second-language learning. However, the notion of community development in this context has received less attention. This study employs exchange structure (ES) analysis (Stubbs, M. (1983). "Discourse analysis." Oxford: Basil Blackwell) to investigate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Asynchronous Communication
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Wiebe, Grace; Kabata, Kaori – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2010
This study examines the effects of educational technologies on the attitudes of both the instructors and the students. The results indicate that there is a discrepancy between the students' awareness of the instructors' goals for using new technologies and the importance instructors placed on computer assisted language learning (CALL). The data…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Second Language Instruction
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Edasawa, Yasuyo; Kabata, Kaori – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2007
This study investigates the effect of a cross-cultural bilingual communication project on students' second language learning. A collaborative key-pal project was conducted between Japanese university students learning English and Canadian university students learning Japanese. Ethnographic data were collected from the students' exchanged messages…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Communication Skills, Bilingualism, English (Second Language)