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Evaluating the effects of 3D multimedia teaching materials for developing Japanese learners' academic writing skills

Research Project

Project/Area Number 26370632
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionAoyama Gakuin University

Principal Investigator

Takimoto Masahiro  青山学院大学, 理工学部, 教授 (30269964)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 楊 達  早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (20266208)
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Keywordsconceptual metaphor / primary metaphor / proximal-distal metaphor / cognitive semantics / metonymy / categorization / comparison / 英語教育 / 強調表現 / 緩和表現 / 認知言語学 / メタファー / メトニミー / 学術論文 / 3D / 空間概念 / 外国語教育 / 概念メタファー / ヘッジ / ブースター
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present study investigated the effects of cognitive and non-cognitive approaches and the effects of self- and teacher-directed approaches on the development of Japanese learners’ knowledge about the different degrees of sureness. The results indicated that the metaphor awareness-raising approach groups outperformed the non-cognitive approach and control groups in writing, comparison, and categorization tests, and that the self-directed approach and the teacher-directed approach groups performed similarly. The results suggest that the metaphor awareness-raising approach using 3D image content can promote L2 language learning because of its input enhancement and concept projection through which the participants comprehended the degree of certainty in terms of the spatial concept of distance. Moreover, the self- and teacher-directed approaches did not make much of a difference because of the information both groups received and the strategies both groups took.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2016 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • 2014 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2016 2015 2014

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 4 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results,  Open Access: 3 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results)

  • [Journal Article] Evaluating the relative effects of cognitive approach with 3D content and non-cognitive approach on the development of EFL learners' knowledge about the different degrees of sureness2016

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Journal Title

      Cognitive Linguistic Studies

      Volume: 3 Pages: 347-368

    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] A corpus-based analysis of hedges and boosters in English academic articles2015

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Journal Title

      Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics

      Volume: 5(1) Pages: 141-156

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Assertions and lexical invisibility in EFL learners’ academic essays2015

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Pragmatics

      Volume: 89 Pages: 85-99

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Evaluating the effects of input-based approaches to the teaching of pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics in second language pragmatics: A case of English request hedges.2014

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Journal Title

      IAFOR Journal of Language Learning

      Volume: 1 Pages: 1-16

    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Comparing the relative effects of metaphor-awareness raising approach with traditional approach on the development of EFL learners' knowledge about the different degrees of certainty2016

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Organizer
      Metaphor Festival 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Amsterdam
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-31
    • Related Report
      2016 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Investigating EFL learners’ use and awareness of hedges and boosters: A case of EFL learners’ academic essays2015

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Organizer
      2015 ALAK International Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Chung-Ang University, Seoul
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-19
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Possible and probable languages: Lexical invisibility in EFL learners’ academic essays2015

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Organizer
      2015 MEESO International Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Konkuk University, Seoul
    • Year and Date
      2015-08-19
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Hedges, boosters and lexical invisibility in EFL learners’ academic essays2015

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Organizer
      24th MELTA International Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      The Royale Chulan Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
    • Year and Date
      2015-06-01
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Teaching sociopragmatics in second language pragmatics: A case of English request hedges2014

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Organizer
      2014 ALAK International Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      韓国
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-27
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The effects of sociopragmatics-focused instruction on the development of Japanese learners' pragmatic proficiency: A case of English request hedges2014

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Organizer
      1st Joint International Conference on Humanities 2014
    • Place of Presentation
      インドネシア
    • Year and Date
      2014-09-01
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] The relative effects of teaching pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics: A case of second language request hedges2014

    • Author(s)
      Masahiro Takimoto
    • Organizer
      12th Asia TEFL International Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      マレーシア
    • Year and Date
      2014-08-28 – 2014-08-30
    • Related Report
      2014 Research-status Report

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Published: 2014-04-04   Modified: 2018-03-22  

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