English classroom reforms in Japan: a study of Japanese university EFL student anxiety and motivation

Abstract The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Science and Technology (MEXT) are facing a plethora of pressures to become more global. This has led MEXT to draw up the ‘English Education Reform Plan Corresponding to Globalization.’ This education reform plan calls for a move away f...

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Main Authors: Steven G. B. MacWhinnie, Colin Mitchell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-07-01
Series:Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40862-017-0030-2