| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥14,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This is a five-year research project to develop an effective literacy program for young Japanese EFL learners. The research aims are to 1) create a program based on theories in this field, 2) implement the program, and 3) examine its effect.
Since it has been claimed that the ability to recognize the sound structure of spoken words and alphabet letters is a prerequisite for developing literacy, the program was designed to develop these skills systematically, in addition to promoting another major skill, oral language. The participants were fifth and sixth graders in a public elementary school and they had only about seven or eight hours of the training for a year. All the instruments developed to measure their alphabetical knowledge and phonological awareness showed that there were significant differences before and after the training and they verified the effectiveness of the program.They also showed their superior performance on reading at the beginning of their middle school.
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