2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Effects of nominalization instructions on reading comprehension and self-efficacy
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20K00890
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
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| Research Institution | Tohoku Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | nominalization / EFL reading / self-efficacy / academic English / affixes |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study’s achievements include, first, the identification of affixes and nominalization as two linguistic factors that contribute to the difficulty of academic English through the study of literature from English-speaking countries, and the identification of effective and specific methods for teaching affixes and nominalization to Japanese university students. Second, the study empirically demonstrated that explicitly teaching the concepts of affixes and nominalization and giving practice on them can have a positive impact on Japanese university students' English reading comprehension and self-efficacy. The results of these studies were published in the form of one oral presentation and four research papers.
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| Free Research Field |
英語教育学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究成果の学術的意義は、学術英文読解の難しさに語彙的には接辞の使用が文法的には名詞化による情報の凝縮が貢献していることを文献研究によって明らかにしたことと、接辞と名詞化指導を明示的に行うことによって学術英文読解と読解への自信増強に有効でありうることを実証的に示すことができたことにある。次に、社会的意義としては、英語圏で広く知られている学術英語、名詞化、文法メタファー等の概念を日本に紹介し、学術英文読解の難解さと重要性を日本の大学教員と学生に知らしめ、学術英文の難しさを緩和する方法として接辞と名詞化指導が有効でありうることを示唆できたことにある。
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