2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Using Rhythm and Rhyme in Elementary School English for Developing a Sense of How Languages Work
Project/Area Number |
19K13263
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Research Institution | The University of Tokushima |
Principal Investigator |
カイザー メイガン・レネー 徳島大学, 大学院社会産業理工学研究部(社会総合科学域), 准教授 (10808950)
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Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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Keywords | visual scaffolding / auditory scaffolding / young learners / multi-modal support |
Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Lessons from this project related to visual and auditory scaffolding for EFL users of English were presented at the TESOL Virtual Convention and Expo this year in a presentation titled “Supporting Anti Ableism in L2 Student Presentations.” This presentation helped to show the value of purposeful multimodal scaffolding for both EFL speakers and listeners at all levels of proficiency.
At CamTESOL this year “Developing learner agency and communicative competence in public health information design through adapted use of the W.H.O. Framework for Effective Communication”, was presented. The scaffolding techniques developed in this project were implemented with Nutrition students in Japan working on sharing community health information with fellow EFL users in overseas settings.
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Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
Ability to research with elementary schools has continued to be a challenge post-COVID as the school originally meant to participate in this project is no longer able. In 2023, a decision was made to test the concepts being explored in this project with university level students, which did show benefits of visual scaffolding especially at older ages as well. Syllable support for pronunciation results were inconclusive due to limited time and requires further exploration with this age group.
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2024, materials will be tested with willing teachers of children of elementary school age, though outside of the public school system. Survey research and interviews will be conducted and the results will be shared at the end of this year.
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Causes of Carryover |
A different direction was taken in 2023 to implement the visual and audio scaffolding techniques developed in this project with university age students as finding a new school to work with post-COVID has continued to be difficult. This year will return to working with the techniques in collaboration with teachers of children's English, though outside of the public schools. Finances this year will be used for conducting survey research, conducting interviews, and for travel to conferences to present the final results of this research project.
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Research Products
(2 results)