2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Use of of Instructional Media in Junior High School English Classroom : A Nation-wide Survey in 1998
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10680231
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Educational technology
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| Research Institution | Komazawa Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
USAMI Shozo Komazawa Women's University, Department of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (00184995)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ITO Takehiko Komazawa Women's University Department of Humanities, Lecturer, 人文学部, 専任講師 (70329192)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | teachers' belief / decision making / meaning focused instruction / form focused instruction / length of teaching career / curriculum design / self-fulfillment / case study |
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| Research Abstract |
It is generally acknowledged that teachers' beliefs and values influence his or her decsion-making and actions. with this in mind, A nationwide survey was conducted among Japanese teachers of English at the junior and senior high school levels. Two hundred and seventy-five survey forms were returned of one thousand distributed.
The findings are as follows : 1) English teachers can be divided into two major groups : those favoring meaning focused instruction (MFI) and those favoring form focused instruction (FFI). The majority (54.9%) favor the former over the latter. In addition, MFI is dominant among younger teachers and those at the junior high school levels - in contrast to older teachers and those at high school level. 2) The biggest factor affecting teachers' beliefs is the length of teaching career. 3) While only 27.7% of the teachers surveyed feel some difficulty in managing their classes, and 59.3% are satisfied with their students' proficiency, the proportion of those who feel happy and fulfilled as English teachers is rather low at 9.6%. Further research with why so few Japanese teachers of English feel self-fulfilled is called for.
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