2019 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Rethinking the 4/3/2 activity for fluency and accuracy development
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17K02882
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| Research Institution | Nippon Medical School |
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Principal Investigator |
KIRK STEVEN 日本医科大学, 医学部, 准教授 (10794753)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
カズノブ ダビッド 千葉大学, 大学院看護学研究科, 助教 (10646657)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | fluency |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In 2019, data consisting of subjects giving the same speech twice, doing a self-transcription and grammar awareness homework activity, and giving the speech another two times the following week. This data was transcribed and analyzed in two main ways: First, we looked at measures of fluency over the course of four repetitions of a monologue speech given by each subject, including speech rate, mean length of run, and mean pause length. Second, we annotated grammatical errors made before the homework activity, after the homework activity, and those corrected by the subjects in the homework activity. Results showed that subjects' speech rate increased, mean length of run increased, and pause length slightly decreased over the repetitions, meaning an increase in fluency. Although many grammatical errors were not noticed by subjects, the errors they corrected in their homework activity were largely maintained in the following repetitions of the speech. This implies that the self-transcription homework activity was somewhat effective in helping students to notice and correct their accuracy problems. At the same time, these benefits do not hinder the fluency gains that are characteristic of the 4/3/2 activity.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Currently one more set of data is being transcribed. When that is complete, that will be analyzed in the same way as the first set of data. That will be the completion of the project.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2020, the final set of data transcriptions will be analyzed, with plans to present the results at a conference and write a paper.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Problems with data collection resulted in delays in getting recorded speeches transcribed and analyzed before the end of 2019. There should be no problem finishing this by summer of 2020.
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