Japanese Language Teaching (JLT) is well established in Australia but the number of
students studying Japanese has been declining. This decline is due to various factors …

Student attrition and falling tertiary education enrolments afflict languages education across
the 'inner circle'English speaking world. In the southern hemisphere, in New Zealand and …

With anglophone countries now experiencing unprecedented levels of ethnic and linguistic
diversity, it is considered increasingly important that young people learn to communicate in …

TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 1 An Investigation into the Reasons of Discontinuance of
Japanese amongst First Year Tertiary Students who have Studied Japanese to Year 13 at …

This paper reports students' experiences of a coursework task in a Japanese linguistics
course that embraces certain aspects of collaborative learning--aspects that are not …

dc. description. abstract The study investigated 'out-of-classroom'collaboration and factors
influencing scaffolding amongst Japanese language learners and native speakers (NS) …

This paper reports on the informal, out-of-class activities of the K2 (Kanji and Katakana) gym
that was conducted twice (once each in 2009 and 2010) over a five-week period in the …

This thesis examined multimodal interactional practices of advanced tertiary learners of
Japanese as a Foreign Language working on classroom discussion tasks using the micro …

Student attrition in foreign language programs is a common phenomenon (Horwitz, 1988),
and motivation is considered one factor that determines whether students continue their …

Two key challenges faced by Australians in the present century are technology and foreign
languages. Technology in general, and communications technology particularly, is …