| Project/Area Number |
18K00777
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
Jactat Bruno 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (20774673)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Keywords | frequency discrimination / phoneme discrimination / pronunciation / French Second Language / didactics / articulatory training / SLA / phonetics / Preparation stage |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
It is commonly known that Japanese learners of French have difficulties with discriminating certain sounds that do not exist in their mother tongue. However, few solutions are offered to instructors on how to specifically handle those problems. In this project, we created a tool to measure students' progress in learning French vowel phonemes. Data were collected and analysed from university students taking beginner French language courses, and the results showed that students who received articulatory training specifically designed for Japanese speakers showed significant improvement over the control group who followed traditional phonetical training. This suggest that using articulatory training tailored to Japanese learners is efficient in improving their perception and discrimination of difficult French vowels.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
国際化、外国語教育を推進する教育政策にも関わらず、日本においての仏語教育では、文法、語彙、翻訳を中心とした教育が行われているのが現状である。また、発音が苦手な学習者に対しては、どのような指導をすればよいのか分からず、口頭指導をあきらめることも少なくない。学習者のフランス語の音素識別に関する第二言語習得論（SLA）研究は、学習者が苦手とする特定の音について大きく発展してきたが、これらの問題を改善するための手段についてはほとんど研究されていない。本研究では、仏語の聞き取り及び発音を改善するための方策を明らかにし、日本における仏語の聞き取り能力に取り組む教師に指針を与えることを目的とする。
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