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Adult Foreign Language Learners' Goals for a Writing Task
No full textAbstract The present study examined the goals that 103 adult Japanese learners of English as a foreign language set for a specific writing task, asking participants to report their goals for the task before they engaged in it. The importance of goal setting has been recognized in the field of educational psycholog
<特集“The Encounter with Religious Others through Music and Musician in the Islamic World”>Editor's Note
No full textSaints in Islamic Ritual Music: Grief for İmam Hüseyin in Alevi Tradition
No full textThis study aims to explore the significance of saints in Islam based on the music used in rituals. The religious group Alevi, which this paper focuses on, has religious beliefs and practices that are a mixture of Shi’i Islam and Sufism. Alevi rituals are known to include song and dance as important elements. The music of the Alevis expresses not only their beliefs, philosophy, and religious customs, but also their social-political situation. Among the saints venerated in Alevi tradition, Imam Hüseyin (Al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, (626-680), who is the third Imam in Shi’i Islam and Prophet Muhammed’s grandson and Imam Ali and Fatma’s son, is one of the most important, after Muhammed and Ali. The song mersiye performed in Alevi ritual is dedicated to Imam Hüseyin. These songs are always incorporated in the Alevi cem ritual. How is
he portrayed in the cem and music? This study examines the role of Alevi ritual singing by comparing how saints are represented by different types of ritual songs, with a focus on the mersiye
<特集“The Encounter with Religious Others through Music and Musician in the Islamic World”>The Transmission of Alevi Ritualistic Practices in Austria as the Religious Other's Society
No full textThis study focuses on the music as part of ritualistic practice of the Alevis, a religious group of Islamic origin, in the living with religious others. The Alevis are a religious group that has traditionally inhabited Turkey and is known for its use of music and dance-like physical movements in its rituals. They constitute a religious minority in Turkey, where Sunnis are the majority. This study focuses on the Alevis, who live in Austria, a Christian society, as part of the Turkish migrant community. Whereas Austria has been a traditionally Christian country with a national government, it was historically formed as an immigrant state by receiving a number of migrants, including those from the former Habsburg Empire territories, workers from Turkey and Yugoslavia, and refugees from the Middle East. As a host country, the Austrian Government put in place policies and institutions to accommodate migrants of different ethnic and religious identities. People with different migratory roots, including Turkish immigrants, governed by these institutions. In an environment where Turkish migrants are contained within the host society (Austria) as an ethnic minority, the Alevis are a religious minority contained within the Turkish migrant pool. In effect, they have double minority status. How are their rituals practiced in an environment that is contained within or adjacent to the religious other? This study focuses on their practices in educational settings because the transmission of music to the next generation is an important issue for those who form communities where they are the minority
Adult Foreign Language Learners' Goals for a Writing Task
No full textThe present study examined the goals that 103 adult Japanese learners of English as a foreign language set for a specific writing task, asking participants to report their goals for the task before they engaged in it. The importance of goal setting has been recognized in the field of educational psychology (Zimmerman, 2008), and second language motivation and writing research (Cumming, 2006d; Cumming, Busch, & Zhou, 2002; Dornyei, 2001c). In the current study students set rhetoric and linguistic goals for a writing task most. Previous instructions and a prompt of composition influenced students' goals for a subsequent writing task
Japanese Learners' Self Revisions and Peer Revisions of Their Written Compositions in English
No full textThe Compatibility of L2 Learners' Assessment of Self‐ and Peer Revisions of Writing With Teachers' Assessment
No full textFXYD3 functionally demarcates an ancestral breast cancer stem cell subpopulation with features of drug-tolerant persisters
No full text博士論文 要旨Abstract/本文Full 以下に掲載：The Journal of Clinical Investigation 133(22) pp.e166666- 2023. American Society for Clinical Investigation. 共著者：Mengjiao Li, Tatsunori Nishimura, Yasuto Takeuchi, Tsunaki Hongu, Yuming Wang, Daisuke Shiokawa, Kang Wang, Haruka Hirose, Asako Sasahara, Masao Yano, Satoko Ishikawa, Masafumi Inokuchi, Tetsuo Ota, Masahiko Tanabe, Kei-ichiro Tada, Tetsu Akiyama, Xi Cheng, Chia-Chi Liu, Toshinari Yamashita, Sumio Sugano, Yutaro Uchida, Tomoki Chiba, Hiroshi Asahara, Masahiro Nakagawa, Shinya Sato, Yohei Miyagi, Teppei Shimamura, Luis Augusto E.Nagai, Akinori Kanai, Manami Katoh, Seitaro Nomura, Ryuichiro Nakato, Yutaka Suzuki, Arinobu Tojo, Dominic C. Voon, Seishi Ogawa, Koji Okamoto, Theodoros Foukakis, Noriko Goto
FXYD3 functionally demarcates an ancestral breast cancer stem cell subpopulation with features of drug-tolerant persisters
No full text金沢大学博士(医学）博士論文 要旨Abstract/本文Full 以下に掲載：The Journal of Clinical Investigation 133(22) pp.e166666- 2023. American Society for Clinical Investigation. 共著者：Mengjiao Li, Tatsunori Nishimura, Yasuto Takeuchi, Tsunaki Hongu, Yuming Wang, Daisuke Shiokawa, Kang Wang, Haruka Hirose, Asako Sasahara, Masao Yano, Satoko Ishikawa, Masafumi Inokuchi, Tetsuo Ota, Masahiko Tanabe, Kei-ichiro Tada, Tetsu Akiyama, Xi Cheng, Chia-Chi Liu, Toshinari Yamashita, Sumio Sugano, Yutaro Uchida, Tomoki Chiba, Hiroshi Asahara, Masahiro Nakagawa, Shinya Sato, Yohei Miyagi, Teppei Shimamura, Luis Augusto E.Nagai, Akinori Kanai, Manami Katoh, Seitaro Nomura, Ryuichiro Nakato, Yutaka Suzuki, Arinobu Tojo, Dominic C. Voon, Seishi Ogawa, Koji Okamoto, Theodoros Foukakis, Noriko Gotohdoctoral thesi
A Review of the Reading Section of the TOEIC
No full textIn 1979, the Educational Testing Service (ETS) developed the TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication), an English proficiency test for people working in international environments, based on a request from the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The Chauncey Group International, a subsidiary of ETS, currently develops and publishes the test. Over two million people per year take the TOEIC (www.toeic.com). According to the TOEIC Report on Test-Takers Worldwide, 1997-98, 63% of the TOEIC results were used in Japan, 29% in Korea, and 8% in other countries. Most reviews of the TOEIC have been descriptions of the test (Gilfert, 1996; Perkins, 1987). The TOEIC comprises the listening and reading section. Buck (2001) reviews only the listening section. For the reading section of the TOEIC we could find only one critical review (Richards, 1992) published over the two decades since the test was developed. Therefore, our purpose in this article is to review critically the
reading section based on recent studies of language assessment, particularly for construct validity and content validity, which are considered by language testing researchers (Backman, 1990; Cumming, 1996) as fundamental for validation of language tests
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