Improving on-campus intercultural communication in English
| Project/Area Number |
20K00746
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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 | Kyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
ハズウェル クリストファー 九州大学, 言語文化研究院, 准教授 (90536088)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ハーン アーロン 九州大学, 言語文化研究院, 助教 (40712435)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
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| Keywords | Lingua franca / Production class / Listening journal / English / Lingua / Franca / lingua franca / intercultural / communication |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This project intends to support language teachers and language students by producing definitive data of on-campus intercultural communication, and subsequently improve individual students’ abilities to communicate effectively using a common foreign language, English. The specific research questions for this project are: (1) “Are there observable problems with the use of English as a common medium of intercultural interaction and academic instruction?” followed by (2) “How can the use of English as a common medium of intercultural interaction and academic instruction be improved?”
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Firstly, the research project has been able to produce a fully functioning website which has served as a repository of materials to be used in class and as self-access learning tools. This website includes twelve interviews taken from a larger repository of academic interviews that were reduced in length to cover the key points, provided with a transcript, and details of the speakers' linguistic background was given. Secondly, the research materials have been used in three classes at Kyushu University and included in courses at St. Andrews University in Scotland. They have also been recommended to students in other universities in Japan. This provided us with feedback about the interest in the topic of English as a Lingua Franca and motivation to increase the materials and how the information was delivered, leading to improvements in the website. We also promoted it at academic conferences. Thirdly, the students in these courses have been surveyed for their opinions on both their interest in and their self-evaluated efficacy of the research materials. Finally, these surveys have formed the basis of a research paper that was published in 2023. It concluded that the materials were helpful in giving students access to well-supported authentic English speech.
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Report
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Research Products
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