Efficacy of Intervention Strategies in Learning Success Rates  

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Kato, Masaki

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Foreign Language Annals (Full Text; di PROQUEST 2004 - terbaru) vol. 35 no. 1 (2002), page 61-72.
Fulltext: 35_01_Kato.pdf (1.15MB)

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This article reports on the efficacy of interventions made to improve the attrition rates of students ofJapanese as a Foreign Language at The University of Sydney. Specifically, the study sought to evaluate dgerences in outcomes between students with a background in a morphographic writing system and those without such a background. Four intervention techniques were developed and integrated into afirst-yearJapanese course throughout 1997, with the goals of improving time management skills, providing effective learning strategies, increasing student motivation, and consequently increasing the number of successful learners. Outcomes suggest that the intervention techniques improved the success rates and academic achievement of students in 1997. Howevel; it wasfound that students with a background in a morphographic writing system benefited more than students with a background in a phonographic writing system only, when improvement was measured by academic achievement. The latter group, howevel: showed significantly increased motivation and benefited more from learning strategy instruction and time management practice than did the group with a background in a morphographic writing system.

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