2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Motivational change during university and its impact on growth in English proficiency
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19K00869
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| Research Institution | Kindai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ハリス ジャスティン 近畿大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (70613199)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | motivation / English study |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In 2022-2023 we gathered the main part of our data for the study. We gave a motivational questionnaire to first-year university students in April, September, and January. We also conducted additional interviews with eight students in August and January in order to get a deeper insight into motivational change over the course of the academic year. We published a paper in Language Learning on the results of our pilot study, and a paper in Task regarding the theoretical aspects of our research. We also began to analyze the data that we gathered in 2022-2023.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
Due to the novel-corona virus, we were unable to collect data in 2020 and 2021 and so our project has been significantly delayed. We are confident that we can finish the project in the academic year 2023-2024.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
This year we plan to analyze the data and then write up the results for publication in international journals. We have two papers that we plan to write based on the data that we have. The first paper is a simple replication study of our initial pilot, and the second paper is a longitudinal study of student motivation, as outlined in our initial research proposal. We also plan to travel to two international conferences in order to share our findings with the research community, and receive feedback to aid in publication.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The next fiscal year will entail cost related primarily to travel as we are going to attend international conferences to present our research.
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