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Nakamura, Yuji – Educational Studies, 2000
This paper examines the results of a questionnaire on reading ability in English by Japanese college students, which was formerly analyzed using raw scores, from the viewpoint of Rasch measured scores. In the Rasch analysis, the basic requirements for measuring are the following: (1) reduction of experience to one dimensional abstraction; (2)…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), Comparative Analysis, English (Second Language)
Nakamura, Yuji – Educational Studies, 1999
This paper investigates the effectiveness of students' real communication capabilities by investigating the target language use in monologue, dialogue, and conversational "multilogue" situations. It explores Japanese college students' oral English proficiency by focusing on the linguistic and pragmatic aspects in six types of teaching…
Descriptors: College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Foreign Countries