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Effects of Goal Orientations toward Child Education and Preschool Teacher-Efficacy on Students' Mental Stress during Teaching Practice
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Development and Validation of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) in Japanese Undergraduate Students
Get PDFThe Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ) became a popular measurement for gratitude research, yet there was no Japanese version published. The purpose of this study was to create a valid and reliable Japanese version of the GQ. One hundred thirty Japanese undergraduate students completed the GQ, subjective happiness, optimism, life satisfaction, hope, and positive and negative affect questionnaires. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) found that the sixth item did not have a significant factor loading, and the 5-item version indicated a better model fit than the original 6-item version. The 5-item version of the GQ was negatively correlated with negative affect and positively correlated with subjective happiness, optimism, life satisfaction, hope, and positive affect. A coefficient alpha was .70 and a 4-week test-retest correlation coefficient was .72. All other CFAs brought affirmative results for its discriminant validity. The 5-item version GQ was recommended for use as a measurement of dispositional gratitude of Japanese undergraduate students.departmental bulletin pape
A Corpus-Based Study of Attitudes towards Children in Hilary
Get PDFThis paper applies corpus-based methods to a stylistic analysis of the first two novels of
one of Britain’s foremost contemporary writers, Hilary Mantel. The hypothesis tested is
that the two novels, Every Day Is Mother’s Day (1985) and its sequel, Vacant
Possession (1986), express a particularly negative attitude towards children. The
concordance program Antconc is used to calculate frequencies, plot distributions, and
identify collocations, and the British National Corpus (BNC) is used as a reference
corpus. The results show that the lemmas MOTHER, MUM, FATHER, DAD, CHILD, BOY
and BABY occur more frequently in the two novels than in the BNC or, with the
exception of FATHER and BOY, in the BNC fiction subcorpus, and that they are
distributed evenly throughout the texts. The study also shows that most adjective
collocates pre-modifying CHILD in the novels are either neutral or have negative
connotations, while most of the top 50 pre-modifying adjective collocates in the BNC
fiction subcorpus are neutral or positive.departmental bulletin pape
A Teaching Plan for Young Children's 'Expression Play' based upon Current Practice(2)Using Established Play Recipes
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Changes in English Language Teaching: An Interview with Hironobu Tomitaka, Miyazaki Prefecture Board of Education, Educational Policy Division
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Saizu: A Very Big Loanword in Japanese
Get PDFThe tradition of student-centered active learning for development of critical thinking
at Miyazaki International College provides valuable opportunities for discovery in the
classroom. This brief paper outlines the results of one such student project in LL3141,
Topics in Linguistics, taught by Debra J Occhi in fall semester of 2013. Students
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inspired to undertake this research while reading and discussing Language Contact
Meets Cognitive Linguistics: A Case of Getto-suru in Japanese (Horie & Occhi
2001). This paper reviews those findings, presents issues students found especially
relevant about loanword behavior discussed in Olah (2007) and about English made
in Japan (wasei eigo, discussed in Miller 1997), lists noun loanwords found in
Japanese-English dictionaries, presents and analyzes instances of use of the
loanword saizu (from English “size”).departmental bulletin pape