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Appendix F: - Change-action in Cycle 4

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2026

Richard J. Sampson
Richard J. Sampson
Affiliation:
Chuo University
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Summary

Two Minutes into the Future English-Self Image Training Activity (adapted from Arnold et al., 2007)

  • (1) Close your eyes.

  • (2) Relax ... Concentrate on your breathing ... Slowly breathe in ... and out ... in ... out ...

  • (3) Imagine you are looking a long way away ... And, a long way away, there is the shape of a person ...

  • (4) Going closer, you realise that the person is you a number of years later ... You are with some friends the same age, and you're speaking with everyone in English ... Enthusiastically, you're speaking about something in English, and your friends are really listening to what you're saying ...

  • (5) Then one of your friends asks a question about the topic on which you are talking, and you understand the English of your friend perfectly and answer ...

  • (6) For a second you think, 'communicating with everyone in English, being able to have interesting conversations is really fun ...'

  • (7) After a while, you split up from your friends, and walk towards a large building ... This is where you are working ... You go inside, walk to your office, and sit down at your desk ...

  • (8) After a little time passes, a co-worker comes and hands you a research paper the two of you are writing ... The two of you read the content you have written in English, and discuss in English what parts you think need fixing ... And while you are discussing, you type the corrections into your computer in English ...

  • (9) For a second you think, 'this work is really fun and worthwhile ...' And you think, 'it's so interesting to talk with all these co-workers from different countries in English ...'

  • (10) Keep this feeling ... And at the timing that's right for you, keeping this feeling, open your eyes and come back to this room ...

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Complexity in Classroom Foreign Language Learning Motivation
A Practitioner Perspective from Japan
 , pp. 198 - 199
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
First published in: 2026

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