2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
On the Efficacy of Process Drama as a Method of Teaching Collocations to Japanese University Students
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22K00831
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| Research Institution | Meijo University |
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Principal Investigator |
川上 綾 名城大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (60805076)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
Rogers James 名城大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (50533527)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | process drama / drama in education / new language acquisition / language correction / TESOL / collocations |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The focus this year was to build upon the first phase of the research and to create lesson plans based on the model created. One challenge has been to create a process drama and traditional lesson plan of the same length of time in order to create a fair comparison. The finalized plan for the experiment has gone through ethics review and been approved. A pilot study has been implemented and the results of the pilot study have been analyzed with particular focus on the pre-experiment and post experiment tests which were analyzed by applying the Rasch model. Some slight modifications of the words and content are currently being finalized. Additionally, recruitment is to begin shortly. The experiment may need to be in two phases based on participant numbers and availability.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
The aim was to complete the experiments early on in the semester, however, due to challenges in recruiting students for the pilot study and some challenges in modification in order to create a more accurate comparison, recruitment for the experiment itself has been pushed back by a few months. In addition, it may be challenging to get all participants to be able to participate at once, and so there may need to be several sessions. Ideally, each session will be approximately 20 participants in order to simulate normal language classroom numbers.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
We are recruiting participants through distribution of information (flyers and emails to teachers) and organizing schedules. We are booking appropriate spaces in order to implement the experiment in alignment with participant schedules. We are printing out materials, making sure all the equipment is ready.
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| Causes of Carryover |
The experiment was delayed and therefore the spending of the budget allocated to gift cards for participants had to be moved to 2024 from 2023.
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