An Empirical Study on Instructors' Heuristics for Teacher Training in Early-Childhood English Language Education

2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19320092
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Shukugawa Gakuin College
• Principal Investigator: KOGA Yuya Shukugawa Gakuin College, 児童教育学科, 准教授 (80321149)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAWASHIMA Hirokatsu 長崎外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (60259736) ; SUGINO Naoki 立命館大学, 情報理工学部, 教授 (30235890) ; 愛知県立大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (50305497)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2009
• Keywords: 早期英語教育 / ヒューリスティックス / 教師教育 / 授業分析

Research Abstract

The major aim of this research project is (1) elucidating instructor's "heuristics", i.e. her/his decision-making strategies as s/he faces various classroom situations, and (2) putting the heuristics into practice for teacher training.
As the outcome of this project, various significant methodologies and viewpoints in English language teaching at early childhood were given and found, such as the COLT-Profiling method, concepts of "distance" and "density" of tasks and some instructors' heuristics.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Tasks as Means to Mediate Between the Classroom and the World Beyond: Qualitative Comparison of Language Activities in Three EFL Classrooms for Children (2008)
  • Author(s): Sugino, Naoki., Hirokatsu Kawashima, Yuya Koga.
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of CLaSIC 2008: Media in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning Pages: 554-561
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Elaboration of Tasks as Means to Mediate Classroom Learning and the Outside World: Analyses of Language Learning Activities in Three EFL Classrooms for Children (2009)
  • Author(s): Kawashima, Hirokatsu., Yuya Koga, Naoki Sugino.
  • Organizer: The 14th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: コープイン京都、京都市
  • Year and Date: 2009-07-31
• [Presentation] Changes in Teaching Behaviour of Teacher Trainees through Classroom Observation Tasks. (2008)
  • Author(s): Koga, Yuya., Naoki Sugino, Hirokatsu Kawashima
  • Organizer: The 13th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: National University of Singapore, Singapore
  • Year and Date: 2008-12-05
• [Presentation] Characterization of Two EFL Classrooms at the Primary Education Level in Korea. (2007)
  • Author(s): Sugino, N., Y. Koga, H. Kawashima, H. Ohba, Y. Nakata, N. Yamamori, Y. Kim, H. Imai
  • Organizer: The 1st Korea Teachers Associations Joint Conference & 2007 ETAK International Conference
  • Place of Presentation: 国立公州大学校, 韓国
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-08
• [Presentation] A Comparative Analysis of EFL Teachers' Beliefs on Classroom Activities. (2007)
  • Author(s): Imai, H., H. Ohba, Y. Nakata, N. Yamamori, Y. Kim, N. Sugino, Y. Koga, H. Kawashima
  • Organizer: The 1st Korea Teachers Associations Joint Conference & 2007 ETAK International Conference
  • Place of Presentation: 国立公州大学校, 韓国
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-08
• [Book] 三浦省五先生退職記念英語教育学研究 (2007)
  • Author(s): 古賀友也, 川島浩勝, 杉野直樹, 他
  • Total Pages: 374
  • Publisher: 三浦省五先生御退職記念事業会
• [Book] Tasks as Means to Mediate Between the Classroom and the World Beyond: Qualitative Comparison of Language Activities in Three EFL Classrooms for Children', Media in foreign language teaching and learning(Chan, W. M., Chin, K. N., Nagami, M., Suthiwan, T. (Eds.))
  • Author(s): Sugino, Naoki., Hirokatsu Kawashima, Yuya Koga
  • Total Pages: 2010
  • Publisher: Centre for Language Studies(printing)