2022 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence through CLIL in Japan and China
| Project/Area Number |
19K13303
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| Research Institution | Kanto Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
荊 紅涛 関東学院大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (80732940)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | CLIL / intercultural competence / global citizenship / RFCDC / Portfolio of CDC |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The study aims to: (1)Investigate CLIL teachers’ perceptions and classroom practices of ICC and intercultural citizenship in Japan and China. (2) Evaluate English learners’ ICC and intercultural citizenship using online communication technologies in CLIL classrooms. (3) Demonstrate the theory of ICC and intercultural citizenship that can be implemented in university CLIL language classrooms in Japan.
The past three years of research have achieved the above objectives. For example, a telecollaborative global citizenship virtual project was conducted between China and Japan. Action research was also conducted in the university CLIL language classroom in Japan. However, due to the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was impossible to investigate CLIL classroom practice in China and conduct field research in some countries in the EU.
The fourth-year research focuses on data analysis and publication. The survey, autobiography, and portfolio were analyzed based on Byram’s ICC model. All the research results of this project were written as new chapters in the book “Developing Global Awareness for Global Citizenship Education” (Jing, 2023, Springer). This project will be valuable in addressing the difficulty of assessing the 4Cs framework for Japanese learners. In addition, it will provide language teachers with a practical CLIL teaching approach to help Japanese students become global citizens. Future research will develop and assess competences for democratic culture (CDC) in CLIL classrooms for university English learners in Japan.
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