2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of a teaching method and a supporting system for academic reading skills of engineering major students

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21500901
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Educational technology
Research Institution	Hiroshima University
Principal Investigator	FUNAOI Hideo 広島大学, 大学院・工学研究院, 准教授 (20344830)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	KANO Noriko 拓殖大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (40350574)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	HIRASHIMA Tsukasa 広島大学, 大学院・工学研究院, 教授 (10238355)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	学術的英文読解方略 / 指導法 / 学習支援システム / 教育工学
Research Abstract	Engineering major students, are not good at reading English, are difficult to efficiently read papers in English. In our study, we have developed a teaching method and a supporting system to facilitate such students to improve their reading ability. The teaching method is based on“academic reading strategy,”in which skimming and scanning are used in order to read a paper in short time and efficiently. The method was executed in pilot experiment in which engineering major students participated in. The supporting system works on a tablet PC and facilitates leaning based on the strategy.