Research and evaluation of ESP textbooks for students in colleges of technology

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520784
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Sendai National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: OKAZAKI Kumiko 仙台高等専門学校, 総合科学系文科, 教授 (70290690)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 英語教科書 / 高等専門学校

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study describes our attempt to extract useful means to develop teaching textbooks for college-level Japanese learners of English. Results emphasize the importance of developing effective reading textbooks. First, we evaluated the quality of English textbooks developed by the author's group. Secondly, we discussed the practical use of our textbooks in English classes taught at colleges of technology. The English textbooks that the author's group developed and published are useful and used in many universities and high schools, which indicates that our attempts at English education in colleges of technology have indicated opportunities for wider application throughout Japan.

Free Research Field

英語教育