Development of Program to Foster Team-Teaching Ability in EFL Teacher Training

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 22520552
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Gunma University
• Principal Investigator: HOOGENBOOM RAYMOND B. 群馬大学, 大学教育・学生支援機構, 准教授 (80436295)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): UEHARA Keiko 群馬大学, 教育学部, 教授 (40323323)
• Project Period (FY): 2010-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ティーム・ティーチング / ALT / JTE / コミュニケーション能力 / 英語教育 / 英語活動 / 外国語活動 / 教員養成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Team-teaching between a Japanese teacher of English (JTE) and an English-speaking Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) is one of the most typical teaching formats in the current English language classroom in Japan. Because the majority of current homeroom teachers instructing Foreign Language Activities within elementary schools are neither specialized in English teaching methodology nor proficient at using English, college EFL teacher-training programs are responsible for development of future English teachers who are able to deliver English lessons with ALTs efficiently not only in junior high school, but also in elementary school. For this reason, this research project has developed a program, which is consisted of 13 sub-programs, to foster team-teaching ability of English-education majors under collaboration between English-speaking and Japanese-speaking college instructors.

Free Research Field

英語科教育法