| Project/Area Number |
26370719
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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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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
Nabei Toshiyo 関西大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20368187)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
吉澤 清美 関西大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80210665)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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| Keywords | フォーカス・オン・フォーム / 意味中心の読み / 読解方略 / think-aloud / languaging / 気づき / クローズテスト / 教室内第二言語習得研究 / リーディング研究 / シンクアラウド |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research aimed to discover the mental processes Japanese learners of English go through when they read and comprehend English passages: more specifically, whether they pay attention to linguistic (grammatical) forms as well as vocabulary while they read for meaning.
The results showed that (1) those who experienced extensive reading made significant growth in comparison to their counterparts, and (2) in the process of reading comprehension, the learners' proficiencies influence their ability to pay attention to “form” (e.g., lexical and morpho-syntactic features) and also their ability to evaluate the appropriateness and relevance of their linguistic interpretation in relation to the meaning and context of the given text.
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