Exploring the Mechanism of Vocabulary Learning Strategies by Japanese Elementary School Students and Teaching Methods of Vocabulary Integrating Four Skills Toward English Teaching at Elementary School

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02783
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Joetsu University of Education
• Principal Investigator: Hirano Kinue 上越教育大学, その他部局等, 特命研究員 (30123219)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 石濱 博之 鳴門教育大学, 大学院学校教育研究科, 教授 (00223016) ; 堀田 誠 北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (20780646) ; ブラウン アイヴァン 上越教育大学, 大学院学校教育研究科, 准教授 (80436774)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 英語語彙学習方略 / 小学校英語 / 英語力 / 学年 / 性差 / 単語理解・発表 / 方略指導 / 単語指導

Outline of Final Research Achievements

For English teaching at elementary school, the purposes of this research are (a) to investigate Japanese elementary school students’ vocabulary learning strategies and the relationships between their English vocabulary learning strategies, language proficiency, grades, and gender, in order to explore the mechanism of their vocabulary learning, and (b) to develop an effective teaching methodology for word comprehension utilizing strategies and that of integrating word comprehension　and production for Japanese elementary school students based on the results of the questionnaire on strategies. The findings revealed that five factors of the strategies were extracted for fourth, fifth and sixth graders (n = 327) and the variables including English language proficiency, grades, and gender affect their awareness of the use of vocabulary learning strategies. Suggestions and effective examples concerning the teaching methodology of word comprehension and production were proposed.

Free Research Field

英語教育