eprintid: 10020387
rev_number: 8
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datestamp: 2014-10-31 12:51:38
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Umino, Tae.
title: Foreign language learning with self-instructional television materials : an exploratory study
ispublished: unpub
divisions: B14
note: Thesis: (PhD) University of London Institute of Education, 2002.
abstract: This thesis investigates second language (L2) learning with selfinstructional
television (SITV) materials. It aims to explore: (1) how SITV
materials can contribute to L2 learning; (2) the process of self-instruction involved
in the use of SITV materials; and (3) a new methodological approach for
investigating the use of SITV materials.
The initial literature review considers self-instruction in general and
learning involving self-instructional broadcast materials in particular, providing
details also of two preliminary studies of Japanese students carried out by the
author.
The main study was designed to investigate, in an exploratory-interpretive
fashion, the process whereby seven British adult learners studied Japanese using
SITV materials over a fourteen-month period consisting of four phases.
Phase 1 revealed features of SITV materials learners find salient while
viewing SITV lessons. It was also found that the learners' focus shifted from
surface features of the materials to content and onto their own learning process,
and that this development accompanied changes in the way they studied with the
materials. This led me to carry out a second literature review, on learner
strategies.
The research in Phase 2 focussed on learners' strategy use while viewing
SITV lessons, revealing the types of strategies learners use as well as variability in
strategy use according to the lesson, with implications for strategy research more
generally.
In Phases 3 and 4, which were motivated by the learners themselves, I had
the chance to observe what they would do if left on their own. In Phase 4,
learners formed a semi-autonomous learning group and together invented creative
activities of their own to fulfill their needs and shared strategies to overcome their
common problems.
On the basis of these findings, the thesis concludes with an overall
discussion of the role of SITV materials in L2 learning, the process of materialscentred
self-instruction, and issues of research methodology, as well as
pedagogical and methodological implications. Directions for future research are
also suggested.
date: 2002
date_type: completed
official_url: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252286
oa_status: green
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
pages: 245
institution: Institute of Education, University of London
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Umino, Tae.;      (2002)    Foreign language learning with self-instructional television materials : an exploratory study.                   Doctoral thesis , Institute of Education, University of London.     Green open access   
 
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