Developing resources for teaching and assessing communication strategies in ELF-informed pedagogy: An empirical approach based on learners' communicative competence

2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K00753
• Research Institution: Tamagawa University
• Principal Investigator: DIMOSKI BLAGOJA 玉川大学, ELFセンター, 准教授 (10459464)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): CHAIKUL RASAMI 玉川大学, ELFセンター, 准教授 (50594082) ; 黒嶋 智美 玉川大学, ELFセンター, 准教授 (50714002) ; 岡田 トリシャ 玉川大学, ELFセンター, 准教授 (50774064) ; 祐乗坊 由利 玉川大学, ELFセンター, 准教授 (80773465)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: lower proficiency / communication strategies / extended repairs / pedagogy and assessment / ELFJ Corpus

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

From numerous analyses of our data, we presented and published multiple findings at various domestic and international conferences and a journal. These findings shed light on Japanese lower-proficiency English learners’ (1) communicative capabilities, their (2) attitudes and beliefs, use of (3) verbal and non-verbal strategies, (4) extended other-initiated repair sequences, and (5) implications and suggestions for ELF-informed pedagogy and assessment. We also organized and conducted two ELF assessment workshops at which we invited guest speakers, who were experts in the field, shared our suggestions for communication strategy training and assessment based on our findings, and facilitated discussion with and suggestions from participants. Additionally, we were invited to write two chapters based on our findings in a book, which we are currently in the process of writing. Publication is expected in early 2024. We also created the online ELFJ Corpus (online and open access) to promote and share our data with other researchers and teachers interested in the field. We registered our corpus as an invention with Tamagawa University.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Linguistic expertise in extended other-initiated repair sequences in ELF interactions (2023)
  • Author(s): Kuroshima, S., Dimoski, B., Okada, T., Yujobo, Y. J.., & Chaikul, R.
  • Journal Title: The Center for English as a Lingua Franca Forum Volume: 3 Pages: 1-14
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] When a request turn is segmented: Managing the deontic authority via early compliance. (2023)
  • Author(s): Kuroshima, S.
  • Journal Title: Discourse Studies Volume: 25(1) Pages: 114-136
  • DOI: 10.1177/14614456221136975
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Collaboration between High School and University and within Colleges. Symposium: “English language education under the New Course of Study: A focus on institution-wide collaborations and teacher training programs” (Tamagawa Academy & University) (2023)
  • Author(s): Satomi Kuroshima
  • Organizer: JACET 4th Joint Seminar
• [Presentation] Conducting research on communication strategies in spoken ELF: Aims, outcomes, and future directions (2022)
  • Author(s): Dimoski, B. (on behalf of Kuroshima, S., Okada, T., Yujobo, Y.J., & Chaikul, R.)
  • Organizer: The 4th & 5th JACET ELF SIG International Workshops
• [Presentation] Moving towards ELF-informed pedagogy in ELT: Pedagogical applications and implications for communication strategy training (Colloquium) (2022)
  • Author(s): Dimoski, B., Kuroshima, S., Chaikul, R., Yujobo, Y. J., & Okada, T.
  • Organizer: 13th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Doing ‘being an expert or a novice’: Extended other-initiated repair sequences in ELF interactions (2022)
  • Author(s): Kuroshima, S., Dimoski, B., Okada, T., Yujobo, Y.J., & Chaikul, R.
  • Organizer: 13th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Communication strategies in ELF talk: Implications for ELF-aware pedagogy (2022)
  • Author(s): Dimoski, B. (on behalf of Kuroshima, S., Okada, T., Yujobo, Y.J., & Chaikul, R.)
  • Organizer: Forum of The Institute for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, Aichi University (IRHSA)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Communication strategy training through information-gap tasks (2022)
  • Author(s): Milliner, B. & Dimoski, B.
  • Organizer: 2022 CELF-ELTama Forum for English Language Teaching