2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Analysis of English Language Instruction of Japanese Craft
| Project/Area Number |
16K02879
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
Hammond Mark 金沢大学, 外国語教育系, 特任准教授 (10770935)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | traditional craft / creative tourism / discourse analysis / ESP Materials / hands-on workshops / procedural discourse |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project employed discourse analysis to investigate how Japanese practitioners of traditional craft give technical instructions in L2 for the mediums of ceramics, metalcraft, and textile dying. The study’s significant findings included: deficiencies in knowledge of lexical items involving the use of the hands, a lack of cohesive devices, limited range of strategic competency, and unfamiliarity with the schematic structure of the hands-on workshop genre.
These results were instrumental to develop effective language learning materials to help craft professionals, with low-intermediate L2 proficiency, give basic instructions and plan creative-tourism workshops targeted at international visitors to Japan.
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| Free Research Field |
English for Specific Purposes
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The significance of the project, in terms of impacting Japanese society, is that its research products support the training of human resources in both the tourism and traditional craft professions by providing essential language as well as guide to organizing workshops for the first time.
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