| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
The aim of this study is to investigate“collaboration", collaborative activities, in the field of Japanese language education. In recent years,“collaboration" has been one of the keywords in JSL teaching, however, it is hard to distinguish collaborative activities from other classroom activities such as“group-work" and“project work".“Collaboration" seems to be used as a fashionable buzzword rather than new technical term.
In this study, we conducted two types of research, 1) to collect and analyze current articles related to“collaboration" or cooperativeness of JSL teaching in order to see what kind of tendency these articles have, 2) to analyze classroom teaching in two different ways, so that we explore methods to investigate collaborative activities.
For the first research, we collected 214 articles and developed a database which consists of bibliographical information, target language skill, target group of language level, type of data for analysis, etc. 88 articles of them are chosen to analyze. In terms of language skill,“speaking" is the most common to be linked to collaboration and“writing" is the second. Although collaborative activities are introduced in every language level,“writing" is not so common in lower level. Regarding the data type, questionnaire is the most common, however, there are quite a lot of studies which collected multiple data.
For the second type of research, a teacher designed and implemented a collaborative lesson and analyzed it by“reflection sheet" and records of feedback session. Another investigator used FOCUS, which was developed by John. F. Fanselow, to analyze other lessons.
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