| Project/Area Number |
15K02731
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| Research Institution | Tokai University |
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Principal Investigator |
ライト デイビッド 東海大学, 国際教育センター, 講師 (40711429)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
吉成 雄一郎 東海大学, 国際教育センター, 教授 (20318166)
藤牧 新 東海大学, 国際教育センター, 准教授 (40238605)
中川 浩 東海大学, 国際教育センター, 講師 (90780221)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | corrective feedback / language anxiety / technology acceptance / technology enhanced / language proficiency |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The visual corrective feedback database, developed for the primary research goal, was pilot tested with teaching staff at the principal investigator’s home institution. The results of a survey and open feedback questions were presented at an international conference (Wright, D. & Nakagawa, H. (2016a, August)). Co-investigator Nakagawa as added to the project during FY28. A parallel research project, led by co-investigator Nakagawa, examined the use of portable touch-based devices to post VLOGs. Data relating to language anxiety was presented in a poster (Wright, D. & Nakagawa, H. (2016, September)) and the full results of a set of studies, led by co-investigator Nakagawa, were published in two separate journals (Nakagawa, H. & Wright, D. (2016a) Nakagawa, H. & Wright, D. (2016b)). The data from the poster presentation helped refine a survey that has been developed to measure instructor and student acceptance of electronic devices in language classrooms. The data and experiences from the above studies guided a redesign of the user interface of the database in FY 28. In relation to the secondary goal of the project, the set of tablet computers procured in FY 27 were used in a pilot study into simulation-based language education (SIMBLE), which was focused on aviation English. The results were disseminated in two presentations (Wright, D. (2016, July) & Wright, D. & Nakagawa, H. (2016b, August)) and a poster (Wright, D., Fujimaki, A., & Nakagawa, H. (2016, September)).
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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
The user interface for the visual corrective feedback database has been upgraded based on research data and practical experiences in FY27 and FY28. This includes procedures to import student data and a set of surveys, relating to technology acceptance (i.e. Davis, 1993) and language anxiety (i.e. Horwitz, Horwitz, & Cope, 1986), both of which have been pilot tested in prior experiments related to the current grant application. Data capture and storage capacity were also improved, with the purchase on a video camera and an external drive, as the main experiment will include video recording of several hundred non-native speaker dyad conversations. The principal investigator has also been assigned to a new office, with sufficient space to host independent raters for analysis of data (primary research goal) and to build out a larger simulator for several participants to collaborate at one time (secondary research goal). Based on the initial study into simulators in FY27, WiFi bandwidth limitation were identified and have been resolved by the use of a router that allows all available devices to be connected to the simulator. The new simulator setup was informally validated, to confirm that a functional cockpit-procedural-trainer (CPT) could be used in upcoming research projects.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The project teams, and two other researcher collaborators, are preparing a practical experiment that will complete data collection in FY29. The primary data, pretest/posttest video recorded conversations of participant dyads will be used to rate perceived fluency by a set of independent raters. Where possible, the data will be made possible to researchers at the authors’ home institution, for transcription and token analysis. The secondary data, relating to technology acceptance and language anxiety will be gathered using pretest/posttest survey forms. The technology acceptance surveys will be provided to both the instructors, who will use the tablet devices to evaluate participants’ language ability, and the participants themselves. The above set of data will provide the opportunity for main four areas of research dissemination and the potential for others. Presentations are planned for the second half of FY29, with publications to follow in FY 29 and FY 30. Work assignments will remain as stated previously, with co-investigator Fujimaki coordinating data collection, both co-investigator Yoshinari and co-investigator Nakagawa contributing to data analysis and promotion of the research, and the principal investigator contributing to all aspects of the project.
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| Causes of Carryover |
In FY28, continued development of the database program as well as supporting data from a pilot study into the use of tablet devices in computer simulations (i.e. the secondary research goal) prompted the surplus budget related to articles was extended into FY29, to allow time to evaluate the need for additional tablet computers, based on the utilization rates during th current (early FY29) deployment of the visual corrective feedback database. The travel budget was utilized for several domestic trips by the principal investigator, with the remainder extended into FY29. This was due to practical limitations, including the processing time required to add co-investigator Nakagawa to the project and professional commitments of all the project members.
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
When the current round of data collection (early FY29) is complete, the principal investigator will make determination regarding the remainder of equipment purchases. The initial plan is to secure more tablet devices, revise the visual corrective feedback database (based on user input), and conduct a second study. To mitigate risk, if the researchers find that a large cohort of instructors are willing to use their personal tablet devices, the funds will then be used to procure equipment for an interactive simulator (e.g. the secondary goal). In terms of the travel budget, the principal investigator and co-investigator Nakagawa are prepared to travel to both domestic and international conferences to present data related to the project in FY29.
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