Yoshitaka Yamazaki

Bunkyo University · Business Administration

This study explored how foreign language anxiety in class relates to individualism-collectivism culture. Additionally, to serve as a guideline for foreign language anxiety assessment, the study determined a normative score of the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS), which is well known and frequently applied for foreign language anxiet...

Experimental studies have developed, conducted, and evaluated classroom interventions for foreign language anxiety (FLA) reduction. However, various characteristics of those classroom interventions make it difficult to synthesize the findings and apply them to practice. We conducted what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first systematic review...

This study empirically explored how learning style relates to intercultural sensitivity and international attitudes in the context of a Japanese university. A total of 109 undergraduate students completed three questionnaires: Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory, Chen and Starosta’s Intercultural Sensitivity Scale, and Yashima’s International Posture a...

This study had two aims: to attempt to verify the construct validity of the measure of International Posture—which refers to attitudes towards the international community—in foreign language education and to explore how International Posture structurally relates to personality traits. A total of 163 Japanese undergraduate students participated in t...

We explored how learning style relates to intercultural sensitivity and how these two variables are associated with international attitudes in the context of a Japanese university. Since the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology articulated the magnitude of shifting towards globalization of Japanese higher educatio...

We explored how learning style relates to intercultural sensitivity and how these two variables are associated with international attitudes in the context of a Japanese university. Since the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology articulated the magnitude of shifting towards globalization of Japanese higher educatio...

This study examined how learning style relates to anxiety among university freshmen, controlling for gender, during their academic transition from high school to university. The study applied Kolb’s experiential learning theory and Spielberger’s paradigm of state and trait anxiety. Participants consisted of 194 freshmen of a Japanese university loc...

This study examined the effect of anxiety reduction sessions conducted in English as a foreign language (EFL) classrooms. EFL anxiety reduction sessions were developed based on two assumptions derived from a rational emotive therapy approach. The sessions consisted of three methods: (a) cognitive–affective talk, (b) reflective self-talk, and (c) po...

Purpose. This study aimed to explore whether a match between learning style and teaching style in English as a foreign language (EFL) class affects two student variables: proficiency and motivation to learn English. Design/methodology/approach. Participants consisted of nine EFL teachers and 331 Japanese undergraduate students who were required to...

This study examined how learning style relates to self-efficacy beliefs in a managerial context. To make a theoretical frame, the study relied on Kolb’s experiential learning theory and a model of self-efficacy–performance relationship proposed by Gist and Mitchell. The study analyzed not only general efficacy but also specific efficacy focused on...

Motivation is at the heart of second/foreign (L2) language education because it seems to affect the rate and success of L2 learning. There has been much research and discussion on the nature of L2 learning motivation and how it affects learning process and outcomes. This paper investigates the association between academic outcomes and different sub...

This study explored how psychological factors work as a barrier to learning in the context of foreign language courses in a Japanese university. Highlighting anxiety of foreign language as an impediment that can negatively affect students’ test scores, we investigated the effect of the big 5 personality traits on that anxiety. A total of 146 freshm...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to empirically explore how managers differ from non-managers with regard to learning skills as competencies and learning style in a public-sector work setting. The paper also examined how learning style affects competency development. Design/methodology/approach This study applied Kolb’s experiential learning...

This chapter aimed to understand how learning style and learning skills differ among three countries—Japan, Thailand, and the United States—as viewed through Kolb's experiential learning theory. The study consisted of 300 undergraduates, with 100 freshmen from each country. Results indicated that Japanese students depended the most on a feeling mod...

This study aimed to investigate the latent constructs in the Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety Scale using a research context of Japanese undergraduates who learn English as a foreign language. The study conducted both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis against two different groups of Japanese undergraduate students. First, exploratory f...

Using Kolb’s experiential learning theory, this study aimed to explore how learning style differed among four cohorts: undergraduate management majors, master’s of business administration (MBA) students, nonmanagement workers, and managers. The research context was Japan, with 1080 participants from two universities, one business school, and two di...

This study explored how managers’ fairness perceptions of performance evaluation systems differ across countries and relate to their job satisfaction. Lack-of-group bias and transparency were the constructs used to assess fairness perceptions. The data sample consisted of 903 Asian managers from the subsidiaries of a leading multinational corporati...

This study examined how job satisfaction relates to self-confidence in the job in Asia through a dispositional approach to job satisfaction. A total of 801 host country nationals from two Japanese multinational corporations participated in this study, including 210 Japanese, 392 Malaysians, and 199 Thais. Initially, analysis of variance results ind...

The purpose of this study was to examine how turnover intention relates to the attitudinal variables of organizational commitment and job satisfaction. We highlighted three specific facets of job satisfaction—personal development, human resources policy, and supervision—in a research context of Thailand, an important emerging market. A Thai company...

This study empirically explored host-country nationals (HCNs) in multinational enterprises (MNEs) using a competency approach. Participants consisted of 500 managers working for a leading Japanese retail MNE, with 100 each from Japan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand. The study highlighted three competency variables for 12 skills of those ma...

This study aims to examine how learning styles relate to employeesf confidence through a view of Kolb's experiential learning theory. For this aim, an empirical investigation was conducted using the sample of 201 Japanese employees who work for a Japanese multinational corporation. Results illustrated that the learning style group of acting orienta...

We compared predictors of job satisfaction across three countries, China, Japan, and Malaysia, by surveying 600 managers from these countries who worked for the leading Japanese retail firm AEON Co. Ltd., as it strategically expanded across Asia. Learning is a particularly critical area for human resource management (HRM) in developing countries be...

This study investigates expatriate adaptation using a sample of Japanese expatriates in the US. For a comprehensive understanding, home managers in Japan and host managers in the US were also used. This study is unique in that it examines expatriate adaptation through an analysis of the change of a fit between 12 learning skills and the skills dema...

We present an exploratory study of how Japanese expatriates adapt to working in the United States over time. We view expatriate adaptation to a host culture through the lens of Experiential Learning Theory and learning style. Results of two studies, using quantitative and qualitative data, conducted in Japanese multinational corporations doing busi...

1) This study investigates adaptation of Japanese expatriates (N=215) in relation to current overseas assignment tenure. For comprehensive understanding of their adaptation, Japanese home managers (N=87) and American counterpart managers (N=125) were also used in comparisons. 2) The uniqueness of this study is to examine Japanese expatriates' adapt...

This study aims to understand cross-cultural differences in managers' learning styles by comparing Japanese managers with US managers. For this aim, the present research empirically examined learning styles of 254 participants in total: 128 subjects of Japanese managers and 126 subjects of US managers. There are three findings that were obtained fr...

At the heart of any successful cross-cultural knowledge transfer effort lies an individual or group of individuals with the skills to manage a complex, ambiguous and often stressful process. The ability to manage the knowledge transfer process depends as much on learning in real time as it does on rational planning. Yet, few approaches to knowledge...

Purpose – To describe the competencies necessary for managers to effectively engage in cross-cultural knowledge absorption. Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive literature review of knowledge management and cross-cultural competency research which identifies seven thematic competencies for knowledge absorption. Findings – The study identif...

This study presents the relationship between six typologies of cultural differences and the learning styles of Kolb's learning model. Several cross-cultural studies about learning styles indicate that learning styles may differ from one culture to another, but few studies have addressed the question of which culture is related to which learning sty...

This article outlines a taxonomy of skills necessary for cross-cultural learning based on Kolb's experiential learning theory. Review of the empirical literature on expatriate adaptation identifies 73 skills that cluster into 10 thematic cross-cultural learning competencies. From this list, we propose here 7 essential and 2 developmental competenci...

Typescript. Department of Organizational Behavior. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Case Western Reserve University, 2004. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-222).