| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SAKAI Shien CHIBA UNIV. OF COMMERCE, COMERCE, ASSOCIATE PROF., 商経学部, 教授 (30289780)
HISAMURA Ken DEN-EN CHOFU UNIV., JUNIOR COLLEGE, ASSOCIATE PROF., 短期大学部, 助教授 (30300007)
MIDORIKAWA Hideko SHOWA WOMENS'S UNIV., HUMANITIES, PRFESSOR, 人間科学部, 教授 (10245889)
SASAJIMA Shigeru SAITAMA MEDICAL SCHOOL, MEDICAL, ASSISTANT PROF., 医学部, 助教授 (80301464)
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| Research Abstract |
The question of how to enhance the quality of English teachers in order to improve English education in Japan is most important and imperative. Until now, however, there have been very few such studies on this theme, and, if nay, only partial ones. Under these circumstances, we have decided to conduct a four-year research project from the fiscal year 2000 until 2004 with a concentration on planning, procedures and evaluation to benefit teacher advancement. In the first year, 2000, we sent our questionnaires to teachers attending a national seminar for new teachers, or attending seminars for teachers with five-and ten-years of working experience as well as attending seminars for Education and Science. The questionnaire dealt with: (1) how English teachers work on self-development and their aims, (2) obstacles, if any, to attending the seminars, (3) their daily implementation of lessons and the types of lessons they can teach, and (4) whether they are conducting seminars regularly in their own schools. The study conducted in 2000 was relatively limited, especially viewed from a nationwide perspective. Based on that year's results, we therefore conducted another investigation in 2001 through questionnaires distributed nationwide. For the fiscal year 2003, we conducted additional research on the training programs for the in-service English teachers, who were expected to take part in roughly two-week intensive training programs for the improvement of their English proficiency and their teaching methodology. Most of their responses tuned out to be unexpectedly positive and favorable. They wished to continue self-development through this kind of public training opportunities. We also not only got all the available information on the training for English teachers being done in the neiboring countries of Asia, but also made an overall investigation on how to proceed with our English teacher training effectively in Japan through this project.
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