| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
With the importance of teaching and learning World Englishes (WE) and English as a lingua franca (ELF) being recognized around the world, education practices need to keep pace. The investigators of this study devised a Moodle-based English learning platform using TED talks recorded in a variety of English accents, and investigated the effects of explicit and implicit instructions on actual comprehension as well as on attitudes toward accented English. In terms of the actual comprehension, the results suggest that students of intermediate proficiency did not benefit from instructions on phonological features of unfamiliar English or from limited-time exposure to that variety. On the other hand, some positive instructional effects were observed on students’ attitudes toward unfamiliar English accents and learning WE and ELF.
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