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Download full textMasanobu, Kimura – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2022
Education in Japan has drawn attention widely from overseas, including a quantity of research pointing out that the context of Japan's modernization and its present-day advanced science and technology can be found in the high literacy rates and prevalent education of Japanese society. However, there has been insufficient examination of the effect…
Descriptors: Literature, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Grammar
Direct linkSakurai, Nobuko – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2017
This paper explored the effects of the amount of extensive reading (ER) on writing ability. Participants were 157 first and second-year non-English majors at a private university in Japan who took a writing test in class. Some of them were reading extensively, while others had no experience in ER. The outcomes of Pearson's correlation indicated…
Descriptors: Correlation, Reading Writing Relationship, Scores, Vocabulary Development
Stillar, Scott – TESOL Journal, 2013
This study discusses a method to promote raising critical consciousness in the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom via creative writing activities by having students write journals and/or personal letters from the perspective of individuals from outside groups that have been marginalized or vilified in the students' dominant culture.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Consciousness Raising, Creative Writing, Writing Assignments
Peer reviewedBouton, Lawrence F. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1995
A total of 65 letters of reference written by American referees and 65 letters written by referees from 5 Asian cultures were analyzed to discover the conventions and expectations guiding readers and writers from these backgrounds. Results found that Asian referees tended to use direct recommendations more frequently than their American…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Shishin, Alexander – Journal of the Aichi Institute of Technology, 1985
A study examined the linearity of discourse in letters to the editor written in English by native Japanese speakers and native English speakers. The objective was to examine the linear and non-linear patterns of Japanese and English speakers' letters, respectively. It is concluded that cultures are not limited to one rhetorical pattern, and linear…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English, English (Second Language)
Porter, Don; O'Sullivan, Barry – 1994
A study investigated how perception of the reader's age in relation to the age of the writer affects assessment of writing. Subjects were 26 Japanese women college students of English as a Second Language, all of whom had recently participated in a home-stay program in an English-speaking country. They were given the task of writing brief letters…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Audience Awareness, College Students, English (Second Language)
