Factors Influencing the Persuasiveness of Written Opinions:

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  • 意見文の説得力に関わる要因
  • ―言語とタスク難易度との関係―
  • Task Difficulty and Language

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Critical thinking is an essential 21st Century skill (Kusumi & Michita, 2015). In this research, the effects of task difficulty and language on written persuasiveness are examined. Thirty Chinese learners of Japanese were asked to write four opinion tasks varying the language used (Chinese and Japanese) and the task-difficulty (daily-life and specialist themes), and the persuasiveness (% of reason and evidence statements; Manalo et al.,2015) analyzed. The results showed that the simple tasks completed in Chinese were more persuasive than difficult tasks written in Japanese. These results will be discussed with reference to tasks in language teaching.

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  • CRID
    1390282680757955584
  • NII Article ID
    130005797634
  • DOI
    10.19022/jlem.23.2_96
  • ISSN
    24239909
    18813968
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN
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