Kay Irie

Kay Irie
Gakushuin University · Faculty of International Social Sciences

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The Purpose: The purpose of this study is to take a fresh look at language education from the perspective of positive communication (PC) as it contributes to the well–being of language learners. It explores a context that has received little attention: older learners. The lessons drawn from older learners can help practitioners in other contexts re...
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The origins of this chapter lie in our ongoing attempts as classroom teachers to make sense of some of the great changes we frequently observe in those learners who venture abroad to study a language. We often hear comments from teachers, and we have probably made similar comments ourselves, about how certain students appear to come back from a per...
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This paper reports on a study investigating the mindsets of 51 pre-service teachers at an Austrian university using Q methodology. Despite the recent growth in interest in the concept of mindsets, little research has addressed the mindsets of teachers – most of it focusing on the mindsets of learners – and the research that does investigate teacher...
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Q methodology, an approach to inquiry on the subjective views about a complex phenomenon/issue which has been increasingly employed in a wide range of social science fields has not yet been applied in language learning and teaching research. It is a unique approach that has characteristics of both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The...
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Any new program requires a great deal of resources to realize innovations that fit the government’s guidelines and to co-exist with traditions that built the basis for the innovation. However, this process has been hardly recognized. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an insider’s account on the process of developing the new interdisciplinar...
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This chapter reports on a small-scale cross-generational learning initiative instigated by a group of high school students in the historic city of Matsue in the western part of Japan, a region with a rapidly aging population. In this project, the students developed and organized a series of lessons to teach English to seniors in the community with...
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The origins of this chapter lie in our ongoing attempts as classroom teachers to make sense of some of the great changes we frequently observe in those learners who venture abroad to study a language. We often hear comments from teachers, and we have probably made similar comments ourselves, about how certain students appear to come back from a per...
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Introduction Where do learners come up with their future self-images? How do they come to envision themselves as effective users of the target foreign language? How do fantasies and wishes to successfully acquire a language become more concrete self-guiding images? Ever since Dörnyei proposed the Second Language (L2) Motivational Self System in...
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This paper reports on the first-year findings of a longitudinal study exploring three Japanese university students’ L2 motivation in context. The three students were in their first year of university and final year of compulsory EFL education, and their decisions regarding further language study or otherwise, reveal how their L2 motivation was deve...
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There is no denying that learner autonomy is an extremely intriguing concept to language educators, an attraction that is reflected in an expanding repertoire of research and innovative practice. This growing popularity, however, is not necessarily a positive development. As David Little (2007) has warned in a recent article, once it enters the off...
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This review identifies patterns of motivation exhibited by Japanese university students by examining a representative selection of survey studies that have mainly employed factor analysis and which have been conducted since 1990. This collection of surveys includes works published in Japanese. Two sets of contrasting motivational concepts highlight...

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