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Exploration of the pedagogical effect of reading Graded Readers integrated with language awareness tasks

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K12456
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
Research InstitutionEdogawa University

Principal Investigator

Mizuno Kunitaro  江戸川大学, メディアコミュニケーション学部, 教授 (40320840)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
KeywordsGraded Readers / 語彙習得 / 形式と意味のペアへの識高揚 / 言語意識化タスク / Book Review Corpus / 頭出しチャンク / GSL / 言語への気づき / Focus on Form / タスク / 言語への意識化
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study explored how to implement both ideas of reading Graded Readers (GR) to focus on meaning and “consciousness-raising” (Rutherford & Sharwood Smith, 1985) to focus on form. This “Form-meaning connections” approach was based on the “Noticing hypothesis” (Schmidt & Frota, 1986) to cultivate communicative capability. In order to facilitate learners to notice the connections between form and meaning of conventional expressions while reading the texts of GR, an app utilizing Excel was developed to come up with tasks of “dictation”. This report explains what dictation tasks were provided as “Form-focused instruction”. On the other hand, I argued that it is indispensable for learners to have learned the most frequently used 1000 words taught at junior high school, so they can begin and continue to read GR by themselves even if only focus on meaning.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究で開発した「ディクテーション」のアプリは,ディクテーションというタスクを効果的に効率よく行うことができる。「〇秒前に戻る」「〇回リピートする」という機能を使い,聞きたい箇所を指定すると,その部分だけを自動でリピートして聞くことができる。学習者は「聴いて理解し書く」ことだけに専念することができる。一方,開発した「英検5級~3級のためのGR の読書サイト」には,英検5級~3級レベルのために書き下ろされた150の物語が蓄積されている。学習者は好きな物語を選び,True/False Questions を通して理解度を確かめ,互いに感想を交流できる。これらは広く日本の英語教育の現場で利用できる。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2021 2020 2019

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 学習指導要領の変遷からみた「言語能力観」の考察と課題2021

    • Author(s)
      水野邦太郎
    • Journal Title

      日本英語コミュニケーション学会紀要

      Volume: 29 Pages: 1-16

    • NAID

      40022418221

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Type and token frequency of conventional linguistic units in Extensive Graded Reading2019

    • Author(s)
      Kunitaro Mizuno
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Extensive Reading

      Volume: 1 Pages: 1-14

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 〔学会誌発表〕(計1件) Exploration of the pedagogical value of“graded”in Graded Readers2019

    • Author(s)
      Mizuno Kunitaro
    • Journal Title

      Extensive Reading in Japan

      Volume: 2 Pages: 14-17

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 英語教育におけるGraded Readersの文化的・教育的価値の考察2020

    • Author(s)
      水野邦太郎
    • Total Pages
      384
    • Publisher
      くろしお出版
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 英語教育における Graded Readers の文化的・教育的価値の考察2020

    • Author(s)
      水野邦太郎
    • Total Pages
      404
    • Publisher
      くろしお出版
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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