2016 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
文学テクストを基盤としたthinking skills涵養型英語教育モデルの構築
| Project/Area Number |
15K02347
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| Research Institution | Osaka Electro-Communication University |
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Principal Investigator |
杉村 寛子 大阪電気通信大学, 工学部, 教授 (20411267)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
M・D Sheehan 阪南大学, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (00411265)
工藤 多恵 関西学院大学, 理工学部, 准教授 (70342350)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | Literature / Thinking skills / Critical thinking / English education |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Hiroko Sugimura traveled to Bangor, UK to observe two poetry-reading classes in the summer language programme for Japanese university students to observe how the students respond to poetry, and to exchange opinions with the instructor regarding the use of the two Welsh poems in class. She also interviewed a Japanese student planning to enter a UK university and a Bangor University student from Japan to explore the difficulties that she had assumed they might have when taking classes in the UK.
Tae Kudo conducted a statistical analysis of the results of the surveys on her students’ literary reading habits and their responses to the short story ‘Cat in the Rain’ which s used in some pilot classes. Based on this research, at the JACET Study Group for Literature in Language Education seminar, Kudo and Sugimura presented a paper on how student-readers in an EFL classroom reacted to literary reading. They are currently completing this article, which will be submitted to a journal soon.
Kudo and Sugimura read several articles by D. I. Hanauer to review his protocol for a pilot class where he used a poem as material for discussion.
Sugimura also extensively read other related articles by John Dewey, Mary Warnock, Maxine Greene, etc to get more detailed knowledge of the connection between literary reading and critical thinking. Based on the literature reviews that she had done so far, Sugimura delivered a lecture to high school teachers in Okayama on the effects of literary reading on students in terms of critical thinking.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
As rescheduled, Sugimura did fieldwork in Bangor. Kudo revised a worksheet based on the feedback that she had received from her students in the previous year, and utilized it to conduct additional pilot lessons.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Sugimura and Kudo are creating and examining a rubric to evaluate students’ critical thinking skills based on items obtained from OCR critical thinking criteria. Kudo is also conducting additional pilot lessons where she is closely observing student discussion with respect to the protocol by Hanauer. Sugimura is writing a report on what she observed in Bangor last summer.
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| Causes of Carryover |
２度の渡英調査が計画通りに実施されていないため。
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
次年度に再度渡英および海外で開催される国際学会での口頭発表のための旅費を主とし、その他調査に必要な物品や、文献の購入に充てる予定である。
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