2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The Efficacy of Studying English before Junior High School

Research Project

Project/Area Number	19520507
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Foreign language education
Research Institution	Senshu University
Principal Investigator	KAJIRO Tetsushi Senshu University, ネットワーク情報学部, 准教授 (90439521)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	OTA Hiroshi 駒沢女子大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (30409825)
Project Period (FY)	2007 – 2009
Keywords	英語教育 / 小学校・早期英語教育 / 効果検証
Research Abstract	The present study was undertaken to examine whether the English instruction before entering junior high school, 12-year-old of age, is highly effective to improve students' English proficiency, or not. We investigated the relationships between English proficiency and the learning experience by means of CASEC and a questionnaire. The results of 1460 junior high school students attending six public schools in Japan suggested the effectiveness of English instruction before junior high school in improving students' English proficiency, especially listening abilities. For the students in public junior high school, the amount of English learning before junior high school seemed to affect the degree of their acquiring higher English proficiency.

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