
Adrian LeisTohoku Gakuin University · Faculty of Liberal Arts Education
Adrian Leis
Doctor of Philosophy
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Description This book is the first volume devoted to mindset theory and practice in language education, offering interdisciplinary investigations into the motivation, competencies, emotions and wellbeing of language learners and teachers. Presenting studies from a vast array of language learning environments, the chapters explore topics such as stu...
This book is the first volume devoted to mindset theory and practice in language education, offering interdisciplinary investigations into the motivation, competencies, emotions and wellbeing of language learners and teachers. Presenting studies from a vast array of language learning environments, the chapters explore topics such as students' attit...
This book is aimed at those interested in the flipped learning method as well as language teachers who are considering or are already incorporating flipped learning in their classes. The book is broken down into three main parts. First, I will look at a description of flipped learning, with a clear definition of what flipped learning is and what it...
In this study, the authors investigated the attitudes of Japanese junior high school students towards studying English from the perspective of the Self-worth Theory. A total of 383 students aged 12 to 15 years participated in the qualitative study. Students were required to write three essays about how they would react under hypothetical circumstan...
The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of what kind of student benefits most from studying under the flipped learning method. A total of 43 Japanese university students studying in a language pedagogy course participated in this quasi-experimental study. Qualitative data was taken from 385 study journal entries and interviews with 1...
This study investigates how praising students' success in tasks affects the performance of other students who were not successful. Possible and impossible crossword puzzles were used as an experiment to engender fixed mindsets in half of the sample. The average time to complete a crossword puzzle at the pre-test was compared to the average time to...
In this paper, I investigate the current state of Japanese high school and university students’ motivation to study English from the perspective of mindsets. In the study, 163 high school students and 393 university students responded to items in a questionnaire measuring their growth mindsets from the viewpoint of believing in the benefits of taki...
In this study, we investigate the use of Google Classroom in an English as a foreign language environment. We conducted regular English language classes at a Japanese university and asked the 98 students participating in the classes their opinions regarding using this tool for language learning. A total of 69 students volunteered to give feedback b...
With assessment being a major part of education, especially in Japan, there is a necessity to investigate ways of providing feedback to students based on test results that will increase not only their understanding but also their metacognitive self-confidence. Effective feedback can convey messages to students that their incorrect answers will lead...
This study consists of a quantitative analysis comparing the mindsets of high school students from three different regions of Costa Rica. The objective is to identify students’ mindsets for English learning. Possible differences between the three geographical areas are explored. The results suggest that the students in all three regions appear to t...
p>In this paper, the authors discuss the findings of a quasi-experimental study of the flipped learning approach in an EFL environment. The authors investigated the composition-writing proficiency of two groups of Japanese university students (n = 38). The teacher of one of these groups had had much experience teaching with the flipped learning mod...
This chapter discusses the advantages of using smartphones in an English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom from the perspective of motivation and autonomy among learners. The authors compared two groups of Japanese university students who were either prohibited from using their smartphones in the classroom or encouraged to use them for educatio...
In this chapter, the author looks at the use of flipped learning in a content-based language teaching (CBLT) environment. The author gives a brief overview of the procedure of creating videos for such a course, which focused on providing students with opportunities to discuss cultural differences between the students’ home country (i.e., Japan) and...
This book provides advice on flipping from a vast range of topics related to second and foreign language teaching, such as assessment, pronunciation, speaking, listening, reading, writing, and content-based language teaching. Based on insights from other professionals in the field, it helps teachers of English as a foreign language better understan...
The aim of this study was to test a scoring method for regular testing proposed by the authors which provides feedback on test results to each student based upon his or her increases or decreases with the previous test score (hereafter, Idio-comparative marking). The authors compared the Idio-comparative scoring system with a regular 'individual re...
The authors discuss the empirical results of a study comparing two English composition courses conducted with Japanese university students. One course was taught in a traditional way and the other using the flipped method. The results showed that those studying under the flipped method spent a significantly higher number of hours preparing for clas...
The presenter discusses the use of flipped learning in the Japanese EFL environment. The presentation begins with a review of reasons for the passiveness of Japanese learners of English based on various literature. This is followed by brief summaries of three quasi-experimental studies conducted by the author to measure whether implementing flipped...
In this presentation, the author discusses the implementation of the flipped learning model into a university class. In addition to deepening students' understanding of foreign cultures, the instructor aimed to help students improve the confidence with which they spoke in English. The goal of the study was to investigate whether the use of flipped...
The importance of providing equal opportunities for all students has been underlined in recent years with an increasing number of students who have some kind of disability attending university. In 2012, MEXT decreed that all educational institutions provide equal opportunities for students with disabilities to receive the same quality of academic i...
In this paper, the author discusses the implementation of the flipped learning model into a university EFL class focused on improving students' language proficiency, in particular speaking skills, in addition to increasing their knowledge of ways of living and thinking in foreign cultures. The study investigated the effects flipped learning had on...
In this paper, I discuss the displaying of captions in the instruction and testing of listening skills for deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students in an English as a foreign language environment. I compare two methods: 1) presenting captions in a scrolling manner, and 2) presenting captions in language chunks, or intonation phrases. I report on two...
In this study, we investigate the benefits of using computer technology to assist language learning in a Japanese university English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. Lessons were conducted introducing the conditional forms of English grammar (ie, if clauses) to two groups: one taught using the traditional paper and the chalkboard and the othe...
In the present study, I investigate the effects of using a flipped classroom teaching method on the effort and proficiency of students learning English composition writing in an English as a foreign language (EFL) environment. A total of 17 undergraduate college students attending a university in northeast Japan took part in the quasi-experimental...
Many teachers find themselves spending hours marking tests conducted in their classes. In this workshop, I explain how to use Google Docs together with the Add-on Flubaroo to create online tests which can be marked and returned to students within two minutes of the test being completed, allowing teachers to give immediate and meaningful feedback ba...
In recent years, there has been a call for English classes in Japan to be conducted entirely in the second language, with little to no use of the students' mother tongue. In the present paper, we investigate the effects of praising language students in either Japanese or a foreign language (i.e., English). Following the recommendations of research...
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has generated much interest among language teachers, especially since the number of language laboratories in academic institutions increased in the 1960s. More research into how CALL influences students’ attitudes to learning and language proficiency has been conducted as computers have become cheaper and...
Testing, in its many forms, is an integral part of the educational process and it is rare to find a teacher who does not test or assess students in some way. Although testing should be seen as an opportunity for both instructors and students to reflect on the strengths and weaknesses of their learning, students often show a negative attitude toward...
In the present study we investigate the advantages of using smartphones in an English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. We compared two groups of Japanese university students who were either prohibited from using their smartphones in the classroom, or encouraged to use them for academic purposes, examining whether those using smartphones in th...
The authors discuss the empirical results of a study comparing two English composition courses conducted with Japanese university students. One course was taught in a traditional way and the other using the flipped method. The results showed that those studying under the flipped method spent a significantly higher number of hours preparing for clas...
The goal of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of whether a short study abroad program is effective in increas- ing its participants’ willingness to communicate in a second language. Using a questionnaire designed by Yashima (2002), a pre-post design study was used to examine a sample of 80 Japanese junior high school students who partici...
The use of social networking systems has enabled communication to occur around the globe almost instantly, with news about various events being spread around the world as they happen. There has also been much interest in the benefits and disadvantages the use of such social networking systems may bring for education. This paper reports on the use o...
The use of social networking systems has enabled communication to occur around the globe almost instantly, with news about various events being spread around the world as they happen. There has also been much interest in the benefits and disadvantages the use of such social networking systems may bring for education. This paper reports on the use o...
This paper reports on changes observed in university students’ attitudes toward tablet computers as tools for teaching English as a foreign language. For the duration of one university semester, the researcher provided tablet computers to 38 students studying to become English teachers. Questionnaires were conducted to measure participants’ feeling...