2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Developing resources for teaching and assessing communication strategies in ELF-informed pedagogy: An empirical approach based on learners' communicative competence
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18K00753
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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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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
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| Research Institution | Tamagawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| 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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | non-verbal strategies / accommodation strategies / translanguaging / extended repairs / intercultural phenomena / strategy training / assessment / online ELF corpus |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We collected data of naturally-occurring ELF interactions. In total, we recruited 18 Japanese participants and 18 foreign participants of eight nationalities. With these participants, 20 online conversations were conducted via Zoom and recorded. Each participant was interviewed independently following their conversation. Our 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, use of (4) accommodation strategies, use of (5) translanguaging, (6) extended other-initiated repair sequences, (7) intercultural phenomena, and (8) implications and suggestions for ELF-informed pedagogy and assessment. We also conducted two ELF assessment workshops where we shared our suggestions for communication strategy training and assessment based on our findings. In addition, we created an online ELF corpus to promote and share our data with other researchers and teachers.
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| Free Research Field |
English as a lingua franca spoken communication
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
We have shed greater light on the communicative capabilities of Japanese lower-proficiency English learners in English as a Lingua Franca contexts by providing (a) a better theoretical understanding of their strengths and challenges and (b) pedagogical applications to address their learning needs.
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