Toward Integrated Skills Development in a Foreign Language

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K02757
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09040:Education on school subjects and primary/secondary education-related
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMORI Takayuki 京都大学, 人間・環境学研究科, 准教授 (10362568)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 技能 / 統合 / 理解 / 発表 / 文章 / 運用能力 / デジタル / ICT

Outline of Final Research Achievements

My previous research projects mainly focused on phoneme, syllable, word, phrase, and sentence levels. However, phrase- and sentence-level comprehension and production are no longer alone at centre-stage in foreign language education. In addition, research on multimodal processing has developed rapidly from brain and cognitive scientific perspectives, and digital tools are becoming common in our daily lives. The aim of this research is to investigate the mechanisms of text comprehension and production in order to promote and improve integrated skills in a foreign language. Integrated skills mean a combination of several language skills such as reading a passage and summarising it in speaking or writing, or listening to news on TV and then discussing the issue. The relationships between comprehending and producing text-level language, paying attention to auditory and visual processing, are focused on in detail.

Free Research Field

言語習得論

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

句や文レベルを超えた聴解・読解メカニズムの解明は萌芽期にある。この領域は，近年研究が活発化して，興味深い提唱が情報学や人間工学をはじめとする，色々な分野から行われ始めており，これからの教育学において重要な位置を占めるものと確信している。紙の上での読み書きばかりではなく，電子機器を媒介とした言語処理（digital literacy）に関しては，今後学校教育でも重要性が増すと考えられる。こうした現状を踏まえて、認知科学を根拠とする技能統合型英語教授・学習理論の検証，精緻化，教育現場への還元を進めている。