An investigation of the influence of study-abroad experiences on language learning and language attitudes in different sociolinguistic contexts

2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21520602
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: IINO Masakazu 早稲田大学, 国際教養学術院, 教授 (50296399)
• Project Period (FY): 2009 – 2011
• Keywords: 社会言語学 / 留学 / 外国語教育制度 / 言語政策 / 言語習得 / 言語態度 / 英語 / Kachru

Research Abstract

This study investigated the influence of study-abroad experiences on language learning and language attitudes in different sociolinguistic contexts. It was suggested that the Japanese undergraduate students participated in this study, being aware of BICS and CALP functions, formed a multilayered language attitudes and improved their linguistic relativization competence.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 'We are jun-Japan' - Dynamics of ELF communication in an English medium academic context, proceeding of Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, Berlin (2012)
  • Author(s): Iino, Masakazu and Murata, Kumiko
  • Journal Title: proceeding of Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 in thematic session: Sociolinguitics perspectives on the internationalization of higher education - English language proficiency and identity in the international university Pages: 239-240
• [Journal Article] 「英語でつなぐ世界の高等教育 - SILSのケースを中心に」English as a lingua franca connecting higher education in the world - a case from SILS, Waseda University (2012)
  • Author(s): 飯野公一 Iino, Masakazu
  • Journal Title: Waseda Working Papers in ELF (English as a Lingua Franca)
• [Presentation] グローバル化と多様性 - G5大学の事例ととおして (2012)
  • Author(s): 飯野公一
  • Organizer: G5年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 国際基督教大学 (招聘講演)
  • Year and Date: 2012-10-12
• [Presentation] Reporting on the U.S. (2012)
  • Author(s): Iino, Masakazu
  • Organizer: Japan Higher Education Panel II
  • Place of Presentation: CULCON. Washington, D.C. (Invited speaker)
  • Year and Date: 2012-09-11
• [Presentation] Towards the enhancement of academic collaboration between the U.S. and Japan (2012)
  • Author(s): Iino, Masakazu
  • Organizer: Moderator of the panel. U.S. - Japan Higher Education Panel II
  • Place of Presentation: USJI. Washington, D.C.
  • Year and Date: 2012-09-10
• [Presentation] 'We are jun-Japa'- Dynamics of ELF communication in an English medium academic context (2012)
  • Author(s): Iino, Masakazu
  • Organizer: Panel session: Sociolinguistic perspectives on the internationalization of higher education. Sociolinguistics Symposium 19
  • Place of Presentation: Freie Universitat Berlin
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-24
• [Presentation] Japan Next: New value creation by the world's youth (2012)
  • Author(s): Iino, Masakazu
  • Place of Presentation: Chulalongkorn University, (invited lecturer)
  • Year and Date: 2012-02-07
• [Presentation] マレーシアの英語重視政策 - その挑戦から学ぶこと, Language-in-education policy shift in Malaysia: Challenges of teaching mathematics and science in English (2011)
  • Author(s): 飯野公一
  • Organizer: 日本アジア英語学会 第29回全国大会, Keynote lecture at the 29th national conference of the Japanese association for Asian Englishes
  • Place of Presentation: (基調講演)
  • Year and Date: 2011-12-10
• [Presentation] 英語でつなぐ世界の高等教育 (2011)
  • Author(s): 飯野公一
  • Organizer: 第2回ELF研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 早稲田大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-07-22
• [Presentation] 教育のグローバル化に向けて (2010)
  • Author(s): 飯野公一
  • Organizer: 日本ESP協会月例研究会
  • Year and Date: 20100700
• [Presentation] 「英語で教える」言語政策 (2009)
  • Author(s): 飯野公一
  • Organizer: 日本時事英語学会第108回関西支部例会
  • Year and Date: 20090500
• [Book] Language Idealism and Realism in Globalization : Exploring Homogeneity Beliefs in Japan. In Globalization of Language and Culture in Asia (2011)
  • Author(s): Masakazu Iino
  • Total Pages: 61-81
  • Publisher: The Continuum International Publishing Group : London