| Project/Area Number |
21K00786
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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 | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
リー シーチェン・ナンシー 大阪大学, 大学院人文学研究科(言語文化学専攻), 准教授 (60512308)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
小川 知恵 京都産業大学, 文化学部, 准教授 (40645107)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
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| Keywords | Speaking assessment / communicative adequacy / rater evaluation rubrics / speaking development / speaking proficiency / speaking evaluation / evaluation / rater evaluation / validation / speaking assessment / CAF |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Developing English speaking proficiency is a continuous challenge for learners and teachers. Not only do learners struggle, many teachers also struggle with evaluatig English speaking. This research aims to develop and validate the measurement of speaking communicative adequacy for EFL learners.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Speaking evaluation is an ongoing challenge for many classroom practitioners. How to more effectively assess speaking proficiency of language is therefore an ongoing multifacted development. Speaking measurement remains controversial because it varies depending on the objectives of the speakers and the contexts in which they are in (Housen & Kuiken, 2009; Norris & Ortega, 2009). Researchers in the past three decades often measured second language (L2) speaking proficiency in terms of three constructs: complexity, accuracy, and fluency (CAF) (Ellis & Barkhuizen, 2005; Norris & Ortega, 2009). While communicative adequacy is argued to be another measurement of speaking proficiency because it evaluates the degree to which speakers are successful in achieving the objective of their speaking task (Pallotti, 2009). However, similar to the previous CAF triad, the measurement of communicative adequacy is not without criticisms because the evaluation criteria for assessing the overall speaking performance of learners and the contribution of each criteria towards the overall evaluation remain controversial. This project aims to conceptualize EFL communicative adequacy and to develop rater evaluation rubrics for measuring the speaking performance of Japanese university students.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
一年間育休をしていたためです。
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Research meetings will be conducted monthly to speed up the research progress. One domestic conference presentation has been schedule for October 2024. Proposal has been submitted to an international conference in April 2025.
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