A study of Interlanguage Pragmatics for Task-Based Group Work

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16804
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: Kato Kazumi 東海大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 講師 (60631801)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: Interlanguage Pragmatics / SLA / ICT / 中間言語語用論 / 教授法 / アクティブラーニング / フォーカス・オン・フォーム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This is a study of interlanguage pragmatics to create a teaching method and produce authentic video materials showing how native-English-speaking students use English as an action language in task activities. This is an attempt to solve the problem that quite often students heavily rely on Japanese in the process of solving tasks and only use English in their final product.
In the first year, the researcher revised the previous methodology for group work activities. The new methodology includes transcribing and writing activities and teachers can see students’ SLA and pragmatic improvement through student writing. The second year, the researcher conducted the new methodology for writing classes and saw positive effects. Also the methodology has been revised for high school students and conducted a 6-day lesson. In the final year, the researcher went to the U.K. to create a new task materials for further activities and used ICT to reduce teacher’s work.

Free Research Field

中間言語語用論　教授法　英語教育　TBLT ICT