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by K Hanashiro · Cited by 33 — This paper explores the portrayal of the countries and cultural elements in Japanese EFL textbooks used in high schools, which contribute to students' awareness ...
ABSTRACT. English language education in Japan has undergone significant transformations since its introduction in the 19th century.
This report presents the results of the first stage of an on-going curriculum development project aimed at creating performance based tests for the first and ...
Japanese as a Foreign Language is expanding both in terms of numbers of learners and teachers and of the number of countries where it is taught.
by N Araki-Metcalfe · Cited by 29 — This paper reports on a study in which the author investigated Japanese primary school students' and teachers' responses to educational drama as a pedagogical ...
What is the role of reading in a reconfigured, transformed foreign language department where the curricular end-goal is not to produce a small cohort of ...
To assess the impact of recent federal funding cuts on Japanese language and culture programs. Method. A 7-item survey was created using Google Forms ...
More Americans are learning Japanese than at any time in history. It is one of the top five foreign languages studied in the US. Japan's Economic Power. • Japan ...
You're learning how to navigate and fish in less traveled waters. Page 2. 2. Studying a language such as Japanese shows that you have what it takes to be.
In this paper, I first examine how a reformulation of the linguistic ideology of Japanese honorifics has become a focal point for a broad-ranging process
This research involved conducting interviews based on the OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview) framework once yearly over five years in order to investigate the ...
Guided by Martin, my aim in this paper is to use biological findings to investigate the relationship between Japanese and the Altaic languages.
My position is that, to resist linguistic imperialism, Japan's language policy in education should not be based on nationalistic/expansionistic or laissez-faire ...
