• Search Research Projects
  • Search Researchers
  • How to Use
  1. Back to project page

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Examining Japanese university students' ability to write summaries in English and developing summarization instruction materials for university-level L2 writing education in Japan

Research Project

  • PDF
Project/Area Number 16K02983
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

Sawaki Yasuyo  早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (00276619)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 石井 雄隆  早稲田大学, 大学総合研究センター, 助手 (90756545)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Keywordsライティング評価 / ライティング指導 / パフォーマンス評価 / 大学英語教育 / 技能統合 / 学術的文章作成 / アカデミック・リテラシー
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The primary purposes of the present study were to examine Japanese university students' ability to read a text in English and write a summary of it in English and to develop summarization instruction materials for university-level English writing education in Japan. Through combining a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods, this study examined the validity of analytic rating scales for assessing summary writing performance as well as the consistency of scores assigned by raters to learner-produced summaries based on those rating scales. The study also identified characteristics of the process and product of Japanese university students’ summary writing performance. Summarization instruction materials developed as part of this study were compared against an existing second language academic writing course textbook in terms of the effects on learners' summary writing performance as well.

Free Research Field

応用言語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

要約ライティングは英語でのアカデミック・リテラシー育成のうえで重要なスキルであるが、これまで日本の大学生を扱った同テーマの先行研究は少なく、従って日本人学習者の要約ライティング力がどの程度で、またどのような強み・弱みがあるかなどのパフォーマンスの特徴に関する実証研究結果や、日本人学習者に合った効果的な要約ライティング指導法に関する情報は豊富だとは言えない。本研究はこれらのニーズに応えるべく、日本の大学英語教育において要約を効果的に指導していくための基盤づくりに寄与し、要約ライティングに関する研究・指導の在り方の一方向性を示すものである。

URL: 

Published: 2020-03-30  

Information User Guide FAQ News Terms of Use Attribution of KAKENHI

Powered by NII kakenhi