2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Developing an effective literacy program for young EFL learners: Coordinating elementary and junior-high schools
| Project/Area Number |
23320118
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Aoyama Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OOTA Hiroshi 東京家政大学, 人文学部, 教授 (30409825)
HONDA Katsuhisa 千葉大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (60362745)
TOYODA Hiroko 東京工科大学, 教養学環, 教授 (40276209)
TSUBAKI Mayumi 文京学院大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (70369437)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 小学校英語教育 / リタラシー教育 / 音韻認識能力 / 第二言語習得 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This is a five-year research project to develop an effective literacy program for young Japanese EFL learners. The research aims are to 1) create a program based on theories in this field, 2) implement the program, and 3) examine its effect.
Since it has been claimed that the ability to recognize the sound structure of spoken words and alphabet letters is a prerequisite for developing literacy, the program was designed to develop these skills systematically, in addition to promoting another major skill, oral language. The participants were fifth and sixth graders in a public elementary school and they had only about seven or eight hours of the training for a year. All the instruments developed to measure their alphabetical knowledge and phonological awareness showed that there were significant differences before and after the training and they verified the effectiveness of the program.They also showed their superior performance on reading at the beginning of their middle school.
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| Free Research Field |
小学校英語教育
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