The Effect of Task-Based Instruction Using Skits

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 16K04731
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Hakodate National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: Usuda Yoshiyuki 函館工業高等専門学校, 一般系, 教授 (00413708)
• Project Period (FY): 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: タスク / タスク開発 / スキット / LMS / TBLT / 英語科教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study created input-based listening tasks from skits and developed a self-study system in which the tasks are embedded. First-year students at a National Institute of Technology in Japan worked on them, and the system was improved based on the feedback from the students. The results of the questionnaire survey of the students showed that the tasks and system were regarded favorably. Some of them found they learned to listen more carefully, to think while listening, to catch important words and to imagine the situation from a skit, besides the improvement of their listening skill. Working on the tasks on the system can lead learners to build inference skills.

Free Research Field

英語教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

スキットからリスニング・タスクを作成し、学習者がブラウザ上で自主的に取り組めるようにシステム(LMS)を開発したことは研究成果の一つとして挙げられる。システム上でタスクに取り組むことで学習者に一定の効果を与えうるということも示すことができた。タスクの開発は日本ではあまり進んでおらず、システムに組み込む例もほとんど見られないことから、本研究はタスク開発の一つの例として、今後タスクに興味を持つ教育者にとって参考になると考えられる。