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Vocabulary Acquisition in the Foreign Language Classroom: Developing effective vocabulary-building programs for foreign language students
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Vocabulary acquisition is a critical component of language learning and, as such, should hold a central place in every foreign language classroom. However, teaching vocabulary properly is both difficult and timeconsuming, and so is often taught using randomly selected lexical items, which are taught incrementally and without sufficient structuring and reinforcement. The result is that students become frustrated and lose motivation. Moreover, the crucial component of student confidence is diminished which does, in fact, directly affect other areas of language competency. To combat this, and to achieve excellence in vocabulary-building,
it is essential that instructors apply appropriate techniques to facilitate students’ rapid acquisition of new lexical items while ensuring long-term retention. This includes systematically selecting vocabulary to be taught by considering the academic needs and competency levels of the students, as well as explicit instruction in strategies that promote learner autonomy. This article aims to demonstrate methods for choosing vocabulary items, and ways to organize and implement vocabulary curricula.
語彙の獲得は語学学習の重要な要素であり、クラス内で中心的な役割を果たすべきだ。しかし、語彙を適切に教えるのは困難で時間がかかる。よって講師たちは戦略や理屈を考えず、適当に語彙を選んで教えることが多い。その結果、学習者は不満を持ち意欲を失くす。そして最も致命的なことに、自信も失ってしまう。自信の喪失は、すべての言語能力分野に直接影響を及ぼす。この問題を防ぎつつ語彙の迅速な獲得を達成するためには、講師が適切なテクニックを使用することが不可欠だ。それには、学習者の自律性を促進するような戦略的な指導と、学生のニーズやレベルを考慮して教えるべき語彙を体系的に選択することが含まれる。本論文の目的は、語彙を効果的に選択する方法と語彙カリキュラムを整理し適用する方法を示すことである。departmental bulletin pape
Problems related to the acceptance of foreign students in Nagasaki(2): Looking at the possibilities as industry-academia-government collaboration project
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Students’ Attitudes Towards English Language Placement Tests
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The research on students of their post-English placement test attitudes has not been extensively explored; therefore, this paper aims to explore student’s attitudes towards placement test results. It also aims to gain an insight into how these results have influenced their general attitudes towards their studies within their assigned classes. 65 students responded to a questionnaire, using a Likert scale, that questioned their attitudes towards each of the classes for the four skills and grammar that they were placed into and whether they were content with their placement. The outcome of the research was that the surveyed population were content overall with their assigned classes, felt motivated to study and had positive feelings towards their classes and studies. However, it also highlighted that the number of those who agreed with their assigned class levels for receptive skills was much larger than those for productive skills. This means that slight amendments may need to be made to the testing process.
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これまで、英語のプレイスメントテストに対する学習者の意識を扱った研究はあまりなされてこなかった。本論文は、プレイスメントテストの結果に対する学習者の反応を調べることを目的としたものである。また、本論文では、指定されたクラスにおいてプレイスメントテストの結果が一般的学習態度にどのような影響を与えたかについても考察を行う。調査にはリッカート尺度が用いられ、65名の生徒に対して、指定された4技能のためのクラスと文法のためのクラスそれぞれにおいて、どのような態度で授業に臨んでいるか、また、プレイスメントテストそのものをどの程度満足しているか、の質問がなされた。調査の結果、概して、学生がプレイスメントテストによるクラス指定に満足しており、それぞれのクラスや勉強内容を好意的に捉え、意欲的に取り組んでいることが明らかになった。
しかしながら、同時に、プレイスメントテストによるクラス指定の満足度は産出中心の授業より理解中心の授業においてかなり高く、プレイスメントテストに若干の修正が必要となってくることが浮き彫りとなった。departmental bulletin pape
Internationalising the Curriculum in Japanese Higher Education
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Globalisation is now a set fixture in our daily lives and internationalised curriculum in higher education is imperative in assisting students to develop global competencies and negotiate identities as global citizens.
This essay first provides an overview of language learning contexts in Japanese higher education, followed by an exploration of multimodal approaches to language instruction. Recommendations for a variety of multimodal pedagogical practices will be offered and associated implications will be addressed.
グローバリゼーションは今や私たちの生活と切り離せないものであり、高等教育における、国際的視野に立ったカリキュラムは、学生の地球市民としてのアイデンティティの確立とグローバルな能力の育成を支えるために不可欠である。この研究では、日本の高等教育における言語習得の状況を概観した上で、言語教育におけるマルチモーダルなアプローチについて検討する。様々なマルチモーダルな教育的実践について提案し、その意義について述べるものである。departmental bulletin pape
Some Mistranslations from Manchu to Japanese in Honyaku Mango Sanhen
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During the mid-nineteenth century, Chinese translators in Nagasaki edited the Manchu-Japanese dictionary, Honyaku Mango Sanhen（ 翻訳満語纂編）. This dictionary presents each Manchu headword with a Chinese translation, and a definition rendered in both Manchu and Japanese.
This paper discusses some mistranslations from Manchu to Japanese in the definition employed by the translators. Although there are individual differences, many mistranslations have arisen from a lack of understanding of the complex sentence structure, such as the relative clause and the coordinate clause in particular.departmental bulletin pape
The Development and the Significance of the Fair Trade Town Movement in Japan(4): With a Focus on the Cases of Tarui Town, Ibigawa Town and Zushi City
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In this article we will try to examine the development and the significance of the fair trade town movement in Japan, especially the cases of Tarui Town, Ibigawa Town and Zushi City. Firstly, a brief history of the fair trade town movement in Japan is reviewed, and the goals and guidelines of fair trade towns in Japan are detailed. One of the six guidelines in Japan, a contribution to the vitalization of the local economy and community, was selected and emphasis was placed on this by the Japanese fair trade town committee and all the fair trade town movements in Japan. Secondly, the fair trade town movement in Tarui Town and the local vitalization movement in Ibigawa Town are described in detail. In 2014, Kanda Hiroshi and the member of the fair trade festival committee in Tarui Town started the fair trade town movement there. They are very active in this movement and hope Tarui Town to be elected as a fair trade town in the near future.
Thirdly, the fair trade town movement in Zushi City is described in detail. Isono Yoshiko, who is the secretary general of the committee of Zushi fair trade town movement, started the movement in 2011. In 2016, Isono and her colleagues succeeded in Zushi City to be elected as the third fair-trade town in Japan. In conclusion, we should keep in mind that we must unite with the local vitalization movement for the fair trade town movement in Japan to realize its goal.departmental bulletin pape
The Advertising Use of <craving> as Expression by the First-person Subject
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Some commonly used Japanese expressions exhibit what the author calls advertisement-like nuances.These expressions often leave an impression of exaggeration because they are used in such a way that they are expected to convey something more than their lexical meanings. These expressions have undergone a commercialization process which gives them the functions of advertisement, exaggeration, and situation shift in the author’s terms.
In this paper, the author pointed out that there was a characteristic modality form about ”desire” expressions by a first-person subject, used in the context of advertising and publicity. The usage of this form deviated from its general use, and, the analysis shows that a marketing strategy motivated this deviant usage.departmental bulletin pape
