- 著者
- Hiroshi OTA
- 出版者
- Kantokoshinetsu Association of Teachers of English
- 雑誌
- 関東甲信越英語教育学会研究紀要 (ISSN:09112502)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.17, pp.65-76, 2003-03-01 (Released:2017-07-14)
The purpose of this study is to identify oral language development of 101 Japanese junior high school learners from the viewpoints of grammatical development at both the sentence level and the discourse level. (WH interrogatives, pronouns, and conjunctions were selected for analysis) The spoken data that were recorded for each student from November of the 1st year to March of the 2nd year were used for this study. The data consists of one-to-one interviews with an assistant language teacher. Some changes or developments can be observed from July to November of their 2nd year. The following were some features: accuracy rate of WH interrogatives, proportion of formulaic speech to the total number of WH interrogatives, the number of learners who used the subjective, possessive, and objective case pronouns correctly, and the number of learners who used the conjunctions 'when', 'because', 'so', 'but, and 'and'.
- 著者
- Hiroshi OTA
- 出版者
- Japanese Educational Research Association
- 雑誌
- Educational Studies in Japan (ISSN:18814832)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.12, pp.91-105, 2018 (Released:2018-10-17)
- 参考文献数
- 32
- 被引用文献数
- 18 46
This paper discusses the meaning of the internationalization of higher education in Japan, based on a review of global trends in this area. Globalization has brought major changes to higher education, and in order to deal with them, the Japanese government has promoted internationalization as an important policy for higher education reform with a series of competitive funding programs. Universities in Japan, too, have made efforts to internationalize themselves. Despite the government's policy initiatives, the internationalization of Japanese higher education has not been understood as a high-priority issue at the institutional level, with many examples of superficial or partial add-ons of the international aspect, and has even been criticized as unable to contribute to transformative change at universities. Internationalization tends to be used as a means to prevail in the domestic competition between universities (inward-facing internationalization) and does not necessarily result in initiatives which lead to the improvement of learning in a globalized environment.All in all, the government's competitive funding projects for internationalization have indeed intensified domestic competition among universities. However, it is not certain that the funds have increased the international competitiveness and compatibility of Japanese higher education as a whole.