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Waseda University Graduate Student Showcase #284

Sat, Nov 21, 10:45-12:00 JST | Zoom 31 Graduate Student Showcases
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Thirdagers savouring foreign language learning

Dorota ZABORSKA

I investigate thirdage learners’ experiences of learning foreign languages through the lens of positive psychology. Drawing on interview data I explore connections between the savouring of language learning, overall wellbeing, and how these contribute to so-called successful ageing.

Perspective shifts through a high-school social issues research project

Aya HAYASAKI

This study explores how participation in an English-medium social issues project changes the values and career choices high-school students in a rural region of Japan, and what socio-cultural factors and emotions are involved in the process.

The resilience process of Japanese university students over EMI

Akiko KIYOTA

This study explores resilience and emotions emerging during an EMI course. Tracking university students taking EMI courses, using participants’ weekly reflective journals, interview data, and class observation field notes, the presenter will discuss preliminary results from her pilot study.

Dorota Zaborska

Dorota Zaborska

Waseda University
I am an assistant professor at Heian Jogakuin (St. Agnes') University in Kyoto, Japan, and currently a PhD candidate at Waseda University. I have been teaching English at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels since 2002. My main research theme is the psychology of language learning, motivation, and learning foreign languages in the third age. Through the lens of positive psychology, I explore the concept of savouring, the capacities to consciously attend to positive experiences in one’s life. I investigate how such capacities of thirdagers in their language studies result in positive effects on their overall wellbeing.
Aya HAYASAKI

Aya HAYASAKI

Waseda University
I am a PhD student in the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University. My professional interests include emotions, mindset, and well-being in language learning and teaching, learning beyond the classroom, and transformative learning. I hold a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from the University of Birmingham, UK. I have worked for a senior high school and several education companies in Japan. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aya_Hayasaki hayaaya[at]gmail.com
Akiko Kiyota

Akiko Kiyota

Graduate School of Education, Waseda University
Akiko Kiyota holds an MA in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent at Canterbury, and an MS Ed in TESOL from Temple University Japan. She teaches part-time at Asia University, and currently a Ph.D. student at Waseda University, researching on emotions and resilience in English-medium instruction.