Development of a course design for an EFL blended learning

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320123
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: AKANO Ichiro 京都外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (50104633)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ISHIKAWA Yasushige 京都外国語短期大学, キャリア英語科, 教授 (90257775)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ブレンデッドラーニング / MALL / 授業デザイン / EFL

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We developed an English-language reading practice application for an Android tablet computer with students who are not native speakers of English, and its EFL course design with the use of the application. The application materials for vocabulary learning in reading-passage contexts were created to include words from a database of low-frequency and technical noun-verb collocations which occurred frequently in certain documents related to the study of international affairs.

Free Research Field

英語学、辞書学、コーパス言語学