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Second-Language Vocabulary Growth in the First Three Semesters of College
Get PDFThis paper describes a project aimed at assessing English as a foreign language lexical
knowledge of students in their first three semesters of study at college. Four
equivalent forms of an instrument to test written receptive knowledge of the words in
the General Service List (GSL) and the Academic List (AWL) were developed for
this purpose. A validation study with 334 participants found that the instrument had
satisfactory dimensionality, the vast majority of its items displayed good technical
quality, and Rasch person reliability estimates ranged from .87 to .93 for the four
forms. The main study used this instrument to track the vocabulary growth of 144
students from two cohorts over each of their first three semesters of college. On
average, these students entered college with knowledge of approximately 1,440
(56.0%) of the words tested, a figure which increased to 1,790 (69.6%) after three
semesters. With a minimum criterion set at 80% for demonstrating satisfactory
knowledge of a word list, only a minority of students entered college with satisfactory
knowledge of either the first or second half of the GSL or the AWL. After three
semesters, the majority of students reached this threshold for the first half of the GSL
but not for the other two word bands.departmental bulletin pape
An Analysis of Erich Fromm and Karen Horney through Cultural Psychology
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In this opinion paper, I analyzed Erich Fromm and Karen Horney, two of the famous
Neo-Freudians from the perspective of cultural psychology. First, I described the common
characteristics of Neo-Freudians. Second, I stated Fromm’s and Honey’s criticisms of Freud.
Third, I summarized the philosophies of Fromm and Horney. Fourth, I elucidated why they
chose specific values as the important ones for humans from their life experiences, cultural
backgrounds, and the zeitgeist of their time. In conclusion, both scholars underscored the
importance of achieving two opposing motivations (i.e., individuation from others and
connectedness to others) for humans, yet their answers were ambiguous because the
self-construct they used allowed only one of these two opposing motivations.
要旨
本論文では新フロイト派に分類される二人の巨人、エーリッヒ・フロムとカレン・ホ
ーナイの思想が文化心理学の視点から論じられる。新フロイト派の思想の概略が説明
された後、上記二人の学者が述べたフロイト批判と彼ら自身の思想が紹介される。続
いて彼ら自身の思想が、各々の人生経験に加えて彼らの生きた時代や文化的背景から
非常に強く影響を受けながら形成された事実を指摘する。結論として、フロムとホー
ナイが現代人に提言した生き方の処方箋は「自己確立」と「他者との関係性の確立」
という二つの目標の達成を暗示しているが、各々の文化により異なる概念（例：自己
意識）の存在が彼らの提唱した生き方の処方箋を不明確にしていると推論された。departmental bulletin pape
Survey on the Actual Conditions of Dietary Habits and Health Conditions of Junior College Students
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Toponymy & Environmental Identity
Get PDFThis article is the result of a study undertaken to compare indigenous toponyms in southern Chile (where I visited the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve with the Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program) to toponyms in Texas (where I completed my dissertation research). Toponyms offer a means of understanding the relationship between people and the environments they inhabit. Toponymy as an expression of a cultural relationship to the environment has received little attention in the environmental philosophy literature, and it is the purpose of this article to help fill that void.1 Due to the threats facing linguistic and cultural diversity, this paper also addresses the value of such diversity and offers some arguments for its preservation.departmental bulletin pape
Writing From Wilderness: On the Use and Extension of Keats’ “Negative Capability in the Poetics of William Stafford
Get PDFJohn Keats coined the phrase “Negative Capability” in a letter to his brother in 1817 when he spoke of a particular “quality” that went into forming a “Man of
Achievement” in literature. He define this quality as akin to a state of mind “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason – .” Generally, the term has been understood to refer to a capability utilized by the poet in the early stages of composition. This understanding of the term may owe its origins to Keats' commentary on Coleridge's inability to remain in “mystery” and “half knowledge” in the early phases of composition: “Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half knowledge.” The poetics of William Stafford draw upon the theory of Keats and extend it beyond the early stage of writing. This paper examines how Stafford uses the theory of Keats – how he elaborates upon it to – and reaches a fully articulation of its implications.departmental bulletin pape
Professional Development for JTEs and ALTs, A Non-Intensive Approach
Get PDFIn 2008, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Technology (MEXT) has established a “New Course of Study” for elementary, junior and senior high schools in Japan. The key changes in this document include a requirement that English will be required for the elementary fifth and sixth grades (from 2011), and also include major alterations to secondary school course descriptions which further the official goals of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). These MEXT driven directives have serious implications for classroom practices, however an analysis of the literature regarding training and professional development of Japanese Teachers of English (JTEs) and Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) demonstrates that there is still a large gap in knowledge and understanding of CLT. Furthermore, although professional development for teachers involved in elementary, and secondary English teaching endeavors has come a long way since the inception of the JET program in 1987, there is still much room for improvement. The following paper offers alternative ideas for professional development based on an examination of programs throughout Japan and investigation of the needs of JTEs and ALTs who have taught or are currently involved in teaching English.departmental bulletin pape