2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The effects of paired associate learning in university English classes: Instructional chunks and learner self-efficacy
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19K00878
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
Lake J 福岡女子大学, 国際文理学部, 講師 (60610235)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | deliberate learning / idiom learning / memorization / response time / implicit knowledge |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research focuses on paired associate learning and the acquisition of vocabulary and multiword expressions. In 2021, it was impossible to travel or conduct experiments so most of the progress was with regard to planning for the next experiment, which will compare two deliberate flashcard learning conditions: monolingual and bilingual. Flashcard learning is very important for Japanese students who learning English, but their strategy is most often to learn English target words using Japanese meanings. While this may be effective for beginners, when they advance to intermediate proficiency it may be beneficial to use English meanings to memorize the words because this will have the added benefit of helping to develop English fluency (as a result of reading the definitions repeatedly).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Instead of using research funds to attend international conferences, we have shifted the overall strategy to conducting psycholinguistic experiments. That said, it has been almost impossible to recruit participants due to COVID-19. Nevertheless, society seems to be moving to an after-COVID phase, during which I intend to conduct a final experiment using the bulk of these research funds to pay participants for their time.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Together with Irina Elgort, a world renowned vocabulary acquisition researcher, I am planning a response time experiment to investigate the effects of learning individually words under bilingual and monolingual learning conditions. Data collection is planned for two phases, the first in July and the second in October.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to COVID 19, it was impossible to travel or recruit participants for experiments in 2021. Therefore, no money was spent. In 2022, the main plan is to conduct a psycholinguistic experiment to investigate the effects of bilingual and monolingual flashcard learning conditions. I have submitted an application to present findings form this research at an international conference in New Zealand (it is a hybrid event, and I will present online from Japan).
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Research Products
(2 results)
