Yasushi Kawai

List of John Benjamins publications in which Yasushi Kawai is involved.

Article

Kawai, Yasushi 2000 Effects of Cultural Contextualization in Listening Materials on Motivation and Strategy Use ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 127/128, pp. 101–126 | Article

There are two fundamentally different views regarding which side of culture, i.e., target or base, foreign language learning materials should take. Approaches that emphasize the learner's assimilation into the target culture tend to advocate the use of learning materials which focus on the target… read more