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Succession of Traditional Food Culture and its Environment: Cohort Study with "Kyounoryori" by NHK
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The Effect of Recalling Relationships with Parents
Get PDFThe effect of daily recall of the relationships with one’s parents on self-acceptance and life
satisfaction was investigated. One hundred thirty-one undergraduate students in Japan were
randomly assigned to one of three conditions (five listings of their relationships with their
parents, five records of daily events, and no treatment) for a week. Results indicated that the
group recalling parental relationships significantly increased their life satisfaction after the
intervention, and their life satisfaction was significantly higher than that of the no treatment
group after the intervention. Regarding self-acceptance, no significant intervention effects
were found. Conscious daily recall of the relationships with one’s parents may increase one’s
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A Study of Relationship of Sustainable Development and Knowledge Creation in Business Organizations: Based on The Informatization of Organization
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Blogs for Writing Instruction
Get PDFBased on previous research that demonstrated the affective response of students to blogs in the foreign language classroom (Armstrong & Retterer, 2008; Ducate & Lumicka, 2008; Sun, 2010) and a preference over traditional writing assignments (Lee, 2010), the author has been using blogs in his EFL classes in Japan since 2007. In this paper, the author reports on four versions of the blog assignment with the latest iteration being a tandem blog project with an American public university. The students involved in the project enjoyed having the opportunity to hone their writing skills while engaged in authentic communication with native speakers of English. Despite some shortcomings, tandem blogs can be an excellent alternative to traditional writing assignments.
An earlier version of this article was presented at the World Congress of Modern Languages, Niagara Falls, Canada in March 2015.departmental bulletin pape
An Investigation into Active Learning at MIC: A Beginning and the Way Forward
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Engaging Students through Active Learning: A paper examining university teacher teaching & professional development ideas to help in-service junior and senior high school teachers move toward MEXT goals of teaching English in English and more active learning
Get PDFThis paper offers a brief examination of active learning and its role in helping students to become more engaged in the classroom. It points to societal, historical, and institutional barriers that add to the persistence of the status quo of preferred teaching strategies, particularly at the traditional university, and secondary-school level in Japan. Without calling for a moratorium on using lectures as a medium for the delivery of knowledge, it offers some definitions and examples of active learning practices which can be incorporated into existing lecture-based teaching frameworks. Finally, it asks educators to re-examine their personal beliefs regarding learning and their own teaching practices while at the same time encouraging them to add new teaching practices to their classroom repertoires in order to facilitate deeper learner engagement with course content. The article is written in the hopes that it will bring about discussion and change in teaching at both secondary and tertiary levels in Japan.departmental bulletin pape
