Armando Duarte

Kwansei Gakuin University · School of Biological and Environmental Sciences

This article is an introduction to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), which is a free search engine of indexed academic journals from across the globe covering many academic disciplines and dozens of languages. With the ever-present need for university teachers to publish their academic research to gain stable employment and engage in pr...

This article discusses how Slido, a website for creating polls, can be integrated into an online learning environment. The following topics will be discussed: General difficulties with online classes, increased usage of Zoom for educational purposes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, drawbacks to Zoom's polling feature, Slido's six polling features, tea...

Do university teachers use CALL more than teachers working at the secondary level? Do Japanese teachers of English (JTEs) use CALL more than their non-Japanese counterparts (NJTEs)? How much difference is there in CALL usage between teachers working in public and private institutions? In this exploratory study, the researchers looked into these and...

Why do some students independently use Quizlet often, while others rarely seem to log in? What are the motivational factors that may influence student use of Quizlet outside of a classroom setting? These are the questions that the current research seeks to answer. A survey of 27 English language learners regarding the frequency and length of Quizle...

This Battleship-like board game, done in pairs, combines listening and speaking. Students take turns verbally constructing sentences in an effort to “hit” marks on their partner’s board and deny him or her points. Although students (and teachers) un-familiar with the activity face a steep learning curve, once they learn the ropes, the activity will...

This ethnographic study will examine the experience of a young English language learner in the 3 rd grade named Kouki, 9. Kouki was observed over the course of eight weeks for several hours at a time, both at work and play. Kouki was also tutored once weekly. Classroom observations were synthesized with interviews with school faculty, administrator...

This paper will report on a performance-based assessment which was performed in a public junior high school setting in west Japan. After researching some of the difficulties in implementing performance-based speaking assessments, the author devised an alternatively formatted assessment for a small group of students. The target group of students, as...