A Study on Primary School Teachers' Awareness of Foreign Language Education: How Experience has Changed their Attitude

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02797
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Tokyo Kasei University
• Principal Investigator: Koizumi Masashi 東京家政大学, 人文学部, 教授 (40411582)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 田頭 憲二 東京家政大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (00403519) ; 太田 洋 東京家政大学, 人文学部, 教授 (30409825) ; 加納 幹雄 岐阜聖徳学園大学, 教育学部, 教授 (70353381)
• Research Collaborator: SAITO Yoshinori 香川大学教職大学院, 教育学研究科, 教授 (70512929)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 小学校外国語 / 外国語活動 / 教員意識 / 移行期 / 教員研修

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This is a questionnaire-based research on primary teachers' awareness of English education, focusing their change of belief and attitude toward the subject that they have to teach in the target language. More than 1700 samples were collected with cooperation by 9 local boards of education. The result shows that teachers are getting aware of the principles of primary-level English education and of the differences of the newly introduced subject and traditional secondary school English in Japan, although thy also get the more aware that their command of English is not good enough to cover various activities as they are the more involved in teaching the subject.

Free Research Field

英語教育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

この研究の成果は，小学校英語教育の指導者に関する現状が明らかになり、今後の国や自治体による現職教員研修や大学における教員養成課程の科目内容を考察するための基礎資料となる。また自治体や校内レベルでの人事を検討する上でも有効資料となるだろう。さらに今後、小学校英語教育の教員視点からの理念研究や指導内容の研究が深まり、方法論、教材論、英語教師論へと波及していく可能性がある。