Investigating the State of Globalized English Teaching Approaches in English Research Articles through Critical Discourse Analysis
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21K00696
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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 |
ハーン アーロン 九州大学, 言語文化研究院, 講師 (40712435)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
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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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | CDA / Corpus Linguistics / ELF / World Englishes / International English / Language Teaching / Internationalization |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
English language teaching is adapting to English's growing status as a lingua franca. Approaches thus far have varied widely, so it is necessary to measure the field's current status. This project will employ a critical discourse analysis lens to map the use of terms and concepts related to these approaches in professional ELT discourse. It will be multimethodological, pulling tools and perspectives from corpus linguistics, genre analysis, and discourse analysis to provide a complex picture of both the discourse itself and the beliefs and identities underlying that discourse.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
After having been unable to complete as much data acquisition in fiscal 2021 as we had desired due to COVID-19 restrictions preventing us from hiring research assistants, we were able to begin significant work in downloading, converting, and preparing data in fiscal 2022. While we are not yet caught up with the original timetable for the project, we have continued to acquire and process as much data as possible throughout the year. In order to avoid biasing our analysis by overemphasizing early data, we have decided to hold off on conducting detailed mathematical and thematic analysis of the data until we have acquired at least half of it.
In June 2022, we presented at the Conference on Global Education at Lakeland University in Tokyo on the results of our pilot study. This pilot study utilized many of the same methods that we plan to use for the main study on a related but more limited data set. The results indicated that the basic method is sound and is likely to yield useful results on the full data set.
Based on feedback from the presentation and our own discussions, we have decided to seek publication of the pilot results. We are currently writing a paper and intend to submit for publishing in 2023.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Currently we continue to be in the middle of data collection. While we had hoped to add additional RAs to speed the work, we were unable to do so. However, we are continuing to explore options for accelerating the work in fiscal 2023. Furthermore, we have just added an additional co-researcher (not receiving funding) who will be assisting us in acquiring data we have previously not been able to access. We are also refining the parameters for our data analysis, which will begin to be done in fiscal 2023.
In addition, we have added data to the pilot project started in fiscal 2021, which has allowed us to discover additional findings. We are currently preparing a paper for publication on this project.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
This year we will continue mostly as planned previously. We anticipate that data collection will mostly or completely finish in fiscal 2023, enabling us to spend fiscal 2024 solely on analysis and publication. We anticipate it will be likely that we will need an extension of the project into a fifth year due to our inability to hire assistants in the first year of the project because of the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 emergency restrictions.
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Research Products
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