Action Research on Collaborative Dialogue in English Language Education

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H06599
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: University of Miyazaki (2016); Juntendo University (2015)
• Principal Investigator: Tojo Hiroko 宮崎大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (00756405)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-08-28 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 協働学習 / 協働的な対話 / グループ学習 / 英語授業過程分析 / 教室談話分析 / 質的研究 / 互恵的な学習 / アクション・リサーチ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of the current research is to explore what kind of features collaborative dialogue among peers in a university English Language writing class has.
Based on the protocol data that were derived from the author's own classroom, the paper discusses how 3 students within 3 different groups interact with each other to construct the shared understanding in pursuing English Writing tasks. The 1st and 2nd groups have a commonality of which students uttered, "I don't understand", then gradually came to grasp the ideas of how to write an introduction part. The 3rd group shows a somewhat different pattern; each member became the audience of their paper and criticized it in turn in order to improve their own writings. Even though the one out of the three showed a relatively different pattern, the both patterns functioned well to construct their mutual understandings toward the writing tasks. This suggests the features of collaborative dialogue in English Language Classroom.

Free Research Field

英語教育学