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- English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Foreign speakers -- Evaluation (1)
- English language -- Influence on Japanese (1)
- English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Foreign speakers -- Evaluation (1)
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The Role Of Expectations On Nonnative English Speaking Students' Wrtiting, Sara Marie Van Dan Acker
The Role Of Expectations On Nonnative English Speaking Students' Wrtiting, Sara Marie Van Dan Acker
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This study centered on the expectations of a non-native English-speaking undergraduate student and her teacher in a general education course at Portland State University during winter term 2012. This was a qualitative case study, where I collected data throughout the duration of the course by means of interviews, classroom observations, and written assignment sheet data. I triangulated verbal data from interview transcripts from the two participants, along with data from the observation notes and the assignment sheets in order to gain a better understanding of the expectations each participant had about writing assignments.
Data from four sources were collected and …
English Loan Words In Japanese: Exploring Comprehension And Register, Naoko Horikawa
English Loan Words In Japanese: Exploring Comprehension And Register, Naoko Horikawa
Dissertations and Theses
English loan words (ELWs) have become a considerable part of the contemporary Japanese vocabulary. Meanwhile, it has been shown that there are individual differences in the rate of ELW comprehension. Among the factors for low comprehension is age; people over 60 years old have been shown to comprehend fewer ELWs than the overall age group. As Japan is expected to soon enter the era of an aging society, the issue of ELW comprehension is likely to present serious social and personal problems. The purpose of this study was to identify the current state of frequently used ELWs in contemporary written …