2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Developing intercultural competence of primary school children

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23720290
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Foreign language education
Research Institution	Maebashi Kyoai Gakuen College
Principal Investigator	TAKEUCHI Ai 共愛学園前橋国際大学, 国際社会学部, 講師 (80581884)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	異文化理解能力 / 測定テスト / 教育測定 / 英語教育
Research Abstract	As the outcome of this three-year study, we were able to develop a valid scale to measure ICC of primary school children. Our initial plan was to create a self-report questionnaire by children themselves. However, after through literature reviews on children's cognitive ability, focus-group interviews with and surveys to primary school teachers, and pilot testings, we faced the following issues; 1. age-appropriate designs for children from 6-12 years old can be highly challenging (there need to be multiple forms of the questionnaire for each age group), 2. self-report by lower grade students may lack reliability and validity. To solve these issues, we shifted from self-report questionnaire to teachers-observational scale.