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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Japanese students"”.
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Attitudes of Japanese students in relation to school biology
… study explores attitudes in biology classes of Japanese junior high school and high school students and also asks them to reflect back on their school experiences. In Japan, the educational environment for students is very good: for example, many students can have opportunities to go to school …
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Japanese students' development of self-regulated learning during the transition to college
… I investigate the development of first-year Japanese students’ self-regulated learning skills and the role of language learning advising in their transition to college. A great deal of research on the first-year experience has focused on a sense of belonging and the quality of friendships, …
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Toward intercultural competence : intercultural training for Japanese students in the United States
… how study abroad program administrators can help Japanese students develop intercultural competence through predeparture and ongoing intercultural training so as to improve their capacity to adapt effectively to American cultural norms. The ultimate purpose of this thesis project was to help …
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Japanese students' Romaji strategy when reading words in english as a new language
… to read the new language is arduous. One of the Japanese students' L1 orthography systems, Romaji, uses the Roman alphabet as does the new language, English. But Romaji is read syllabically whereas English is read morphophonemically and phonemically. Romaji keeps a one-to-one letter-sound …
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A study of the stress factors and coping strategies of Japanese students in UK higher education institutions
… the stress factors and coping strategies of Japanese students in UK Higher Education Institutions. It is beIieved that this is the first time that this specific but wide research with Japanese students has been attempted. The first five chapters provide a range of background information and …
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Critical encounters: How some Japanese students understand and adapt to the practice of critique in the U.S. design studio
… design programs. Critique is an event in which students present their work and receive feedback from faculty, visiting professionals, and their classmates. Critique can be formative or summative. In formative critiques, the instructor intervenes in the creative process, reviews drafts of work, …
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Comparison of Motivational Factors Between Japanese and United States High School Students
… multiple subjects and age groups, U.S. students rate poorly while Japanese students rate highly when subject to international testing. Japanese children complete twice as much homework as their U.S. counterparts and sometimes attend school on Saturdays. The literature review looks at …
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Ethical Issues in Business Communication: A Comparative Study of the Perceptions of Japanese and US Students
This study compared Japanese and US students' intended beliefs and behaviors relating to ethical business decisions. The study assessed the extent to which three of Hofstede's (1984) cultural indexes related to three ethical classifications of Vitell, Nwachukwu, and Barnes (1993). Participants were …
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Developing Social Networks and Language Learning: Japanese ESL Students in a Study Abroad Context
… between the English language proficiency of Japanese students in a short term study abroad (SA) context and the structure of their social networks. Their personal social networks were investigated through individual interviews. Analyzing their investment in English along with examining their …
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Examining the impact of homework-based instruction on EFL learners' ability to predict English phrase rhythm
… factors have been described as contributing to Japanese students' difficulties with the oral production of English, including the fundamental differences between Japanese and English (Cross, 2000), the segmental and word-level focus of current instruction at junior and senior high schools …
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The commodification of British higher education : international student curriculum initiatives
… for the educational experience of international students and those who teach them. It explores whether it is possible in practice for HEIs to reconcile the professional ethics of educators with externally set targets and economic imperatives in an environment which is commercial in orientation …
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Intercultural Now?: A Japanese Short-Term Study Abroad Experience
… study investigated the lived experience of seven Japanese university students who participated in short-term study abroad programs in Southeast Asia. The seven participants were a part of groups of twenty-four Japanese students who studied the local language and conducted fieldwork projects with …
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Negotiated interaction in the learning of written discourse conventions
<p>This study examines how two Japanese students learning to write in English negotiate the variations in written discourse conventions they encounter in an all-English program at a university in Japan. Textbooks, samples of the students' essays, and written feedback from instructors were analyzed, …
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Autonomy in foreign language learning: An exploratory analysis of Japanese learners
… this study is to gain a greater understanding of Japanese students' beliefs regarding foreign language learning in a particular context. This is undertaken by utilising multi-modal investigation procedures, consisting of three studies. Little's learner autonomy theory is utilised throughout this …
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A comparative study of Arabic and Japanese
… systems, number, and gender of Arabic and Japanese. One of the purposes of this thesis is to introduce Japanese and Arabic from the viewpoints of each other. It is true that research has been done about each of them separately, but not much has been done about them together. Thus, the topic …
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The Impact of Co-presence and Visual Elements in 3D VLEs on Interpersonal Emotional Connection in Telecollaboration
… telecollaboration. To fulfill the purpose, two Japanese students and two American students were paired and participated in conversational sessions in two different virtual environments: one where they shared the environments with their partners and the other where they did not.;The participants …
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Language, culture, and identity negotiation: perspectives of adolescent Japanese sojourner students in the Midwest, USA
… the voices and lived experiences of adolescent Japanese sojourner students and their mothers residing in the Midwest. The central goals of this research are to understand what adolescent Japanese sojourner students’ school experiences in the U.S. are like—particularly in areas with small …
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Some difficulties in responding to negative polar interrogatives and negative declaratives in English and pedagogical implications for Japanese EFL learners
Traditional Japanese learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) are taught to respond to negative questions (e.g. Do you not like English?) with yes for positive answers (e.g. Yes, I do) and no for negative answers (e.g. No, I don't). However, this is subject to variation in native speaker …
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Spatial Presentation in Children's Drawings: Why Do Japanese Children Draw in Their Own Particular Ways
… relationship between national origin (U.S. and Japanese), culture, and aesthetic in order to explore the concepts of universality and socio-cultural influences. In the initial comparison between Japanese and U.S. students of second, fourth, and sixth grades, there was a significant difference in …
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