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17 With increasing globalization, English has become an essential tool for communication across national and cultural borders. For Asia-Pacific countries, which include a diverse range of languages, there is a sustained and growing interest in expanding the percentage of their population competent in English (Kachru, 1997). As a result of this move...
Developing the fundamentals of a foreign language is a major focus of most elementary school language programs (Butler, 2015). One of the established key fundamentals for all later language studies comes in the form of awareness and understanding of the sounds commonly used in the new language, commonly known as phonological awareness (PA). Finding...
Learning occurs best when students are given opportunities to be active participants in the learning process. As assessment strategies are being forced to change in the era of Generative AI, and as digital technologies continue to integrate with education, it becomes imperative to gather information on current approaches to evaluating student parti...
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The broad relationship between students' self-efficacy and interest has been highlighted for decades. This, along with the inherently developmental nature of learning, calls for a more thorough examination of the way fluctuations i...
Towards a theoretical framework for the future of education • The psychological factors underlying a considerable proportion of students' motivation and behaviour • Researchers from different framework have described different arrangements and interrelationships (Deci & Ryan 1985; Dweck, 2017) Psychology Needs • Two psychological needs that are wid...
Phonological processing of written characters has been recognized as a crucial element in acquiring literacy in any language, both native and foreign. This study aimed to assess Japanese primary school students' phoneme-grapheme recognition skills using both paper-based and touch-interface tests. Differences between the two test formats and the rel...
Foreign language was recently added to Japan's
national primary school curriculum. Phoneme-Grapheme
Recognition (PGR) skills are a critical step in both L1 and L2
development. Due to its simplistic approach and the lack
of new investment in teacher training, research regarding
the impact on PGR skills are important. This study tested the
relative d...
The linkages between students' self-efficacy and interest necessitates a deeper look at how changes in students' self-efficacy impact their interest in learning across a course and in the longer-term. The longitudinal contribution of students' self-efficacy beliefs' latent growth for their interest in studying in a specific domain in the shorter- (...
As research questions in the rapidly growing field of Open, Distance, and Digital Education shift from if to how these forums should be approached, a paramount and complementary area of research is the accompanying motivation students’ exhibit to learn in ODDE environments. This chapter critically examines the existing literature on student motivat...
As research questions in the rapidly growing field of Open, Distance, and Digital Education shift from if to how these forums should be approached, a paramount and complementary area of research is the accompanying motivation students’ exhibit to learn in ODDE environments. This chapter critically examines the existing literature on student motivat...
Background: In 2018, the national decision was made for foreign languages (generally English) to become a formal school subject in Japanese elementary schools. There is considerable evidence to suggest that many elementary school teachers remain poorly equipped to satisfy these curricular requirements. As part of Japan’s response to covid-19, chrom...
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Self-efficacy beliefs have well established theoretical and empirical linkages to persistence and achievement. Budding theoretical and recent empirical research has worked to connect self-efficacy to interest. Building on research in these areas, burgeoning research has begun to examine the relative role of intercept and slope of self-...
Background: Self-efficacy has well established theoretical and empirical linkages to persistence and achievement. Budding theoretical and recent empirical research has worked to connect self-efficacy to students' interest. Building on research in these areas, burgeoning research has begun to examine the relative role of intercept and slope of self-...
Young learners require developmental benchmarks to improve awareness of the phonemes in a new language. This study aimed to extend our understanding of Japanese elementary school students’ general and specific phonemic awareness across four years of English instruction. A public elementary school 3rd-6th year students in Japan (n=261, ages=8–12) pa...
Phonemic awareness is a necessary but not sufficient skill for language development. Phonemic awareness is therefore a critical factor for initial foreign language learning leading to ultimate attainment of literacy in the new language. The current study presents a test of phonemic awareness applied to the Japanese elementary school EFL environment...
Interest and self-efficacy are crucial to academic success. This study addresses two gaps in our understanding of their development and support during university courses: how prior self-efficacy and interest plays a role in, and how different classroom activities build toward the development of students' future interest and self-efficacy. In this s...
Self-report is a fundamental research tool for the social sciences. Despite quantitative surveys being the workhorses of the self-report stable, few researchers question their format-often blindly using some form of Labelled Categorical Scale (Likert-type). This study presents a brief review of the current literature examining the efficacy of surve...
While self-report measures are ubiquitous in the educational research literature, the benefits of self-report are often maligned. Rather than discarding or ignoring data generated from self-report measures of cognitive processing and motivation, research is needed to determine when and if self-report measures can contribute to our collective unders...
Self-report is a fundamental research tool for the social sciences. Despite quantitative surveys being the workhorses of the self-report stable, few researchers question their format—often blindly using some form of Labelled Categorical Scale (Likert-type). This study presents a brief review of the current literature examining the efficacy of surve...
We tested the interplay between ability-beliefs (self-efficacy and self-concept) and interest at three levels of specificity (Domain, Course and Task), and their relationship with students’ interest in the domain and self-efficacy for the course across one semester of study. Longitudinal latent modelling of the first-year students (n=128) studying...
Conversation practice, while paramount for all language learners, can be difficult to get enough of and very expensive. In this mobile age, chatbots are an obvious means of filling this gap, but have yet to realize their potential as practice partners. The current study was undertaken to examine why chatbots are not yet a substantial instrument for...
Students with less confidence in their foreign language skills prefer chatbots over human partners (Fryer, 2006).
While growing in language competence, Chatbots are still imperfect language partners (Coniam, 2014; Fryer & Nakao, 2009) . Initial interest in chatbot partners might be due chiefly to their novelty, therefore contributing little or noth...
Fryer, L. K., Ainley, M. D., Thompson, A., & Nakao, K. (August, 2018). Getting and Keeping University Students Interested: An Educational Technology Perspective. A symposium presentation at the International Conference on Motivation, Aarhus, Denmark.
Considerable theory and empirical evidence supports the importance of utility-value for student interest development (e.g., Hulleman & Harackiewicz, 2009). This study utilized an experimental design to test a utility-value intervention aimed at promoting student interest in studying English during a compulsory university course. Participants (N = 1...
Building on the future oriented and regulated nature of instrumental goals, Lens and colleagues developed a 2 (proximal-distal) x 2 (internal-external) motivational framework. The current study aimed to test this framework from a person-centred perspective, while equally taking into account students' lack of motivation as to extend the empirical an...
Despite the widespread use of e-learning in higher education, little is known about the motivational orientations of learners who are required to use it. The current research explores the role of amotivation within the compulsory e-learning component of a blended learning course at one Japanese university. The investigation takes the form of three...
In numerous Asian-Pacific tertiary contexts–students’ chosen department notwithstanding–second language study is a requirement for both entry and graduation. A practice by which L2 motivation research could benefit from L1 procedures is to acknowledge instrumentality in such non-elective classes. Instrumental goals are central to the learning proce...
Background. Student learning theory (SLT) has established associations between students' approaches to learning and their perceptions of the learning environment. SLT may provide a useful framework for researching student learning within the Japanese tertiary sector.
Aims. The study aims to explore and validate the Course Experience Questionnaire...
For many students in Japan, opportunities to use English are rare. For Japanese tertiary students, studying English once a week, their “eigokaiwa” class may be their only chance to use English. Chatbots have been proposed as a means of providing Foreign Language Learners (FLLs) with English communication practice. Little or no analysis of chatbots’...
