scholarly journals Book review: Foreign language education in Japan: exploring qualitative approaches, S. Horiguchi, Y. Imoto, and G.S. Poole (Eds.), Sense Publishers, 2015

Author(s):  
Takako Yoshida

Congcong Wang and Lisa Winstead are editors of this 386-pages volume, which contains five sections and 17 chapters, the first of which is a 46-pages long introduction followed by 16 original research papers, all of which offer valuable insights into the advantages and disadvantages of a current problem of foreign language education in the digital age. The first section of the volume is entitled Commentary, the second section is entitled Technologies across Continents, the third section of the volume is entitled Web Collaboration across Languages, the fourth section is entitled Less Commonly Taught Languages, and finally, the fifth section focuses on Teacher Education and Learning Strategies.


2011 ◽  
Vol 271-273 ◽  
pp. 1499-1504
Author(s):  
Shu Fang Wu

Following learner autonomy (LA), teacher autonomy (TA) has recently acquired a prominence in discourse on foreign language education. This study, taking TA as one influential variable on LA, tries to explore the relationship between them by conducting the investigation of some Chinese college English teachers of non-English majors with quantitative and qualitative approaches. The results show that there exist some correlations between TA and LA. In the end, the author gives some suggestions on how to promote learners autonomy in their English learning by cultivating and promoting teachers’ own autonomy in English teaching under the network environment.


2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 2141-2153
Author(s):  
Eva Stranovská ◽  
Silvia Hvozdíková ◽  
Dáša Munková ◽  
Gadušová Zdenka

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