2024 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Investigating the dynamic nature of listening comprehension in EMI lectures: A comparison of Japan, Hong Kong, and Sweden
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23K25340
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Institution | Miyazaki Municipal University |
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Principal Investigator |
Ducker Nathan 宮崎公立大学, 人文学部, 教授 (80774512)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
辻 利則 宮崎公立大学, 人文学部, 教授 (00254657)
Madarbakus Naheen 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (10909493)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2024-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Keywords | Funding / Grant application / Patent / Improved pedagogy / Paper submission / Paper presentation |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The development of the foot pedal mechanism has led to two further international collaboration projects using the foot pedal mechanism and procedures. A grant in Sweden 2024-2026 where the current PI is a Collaborator: Swedish Research Council. Real Time Monitoring of Listening Comprehension in English Medium Instruction (Siegel, Siegel, & Kuteeva). USD 406,700. Grant # 2023-03853_VR and a project under consider in Hong Kong: Research Grant Council GRF project Orchestrating listening in EMI university lectures: A multimodal perspective of students’ strategic lecture comprehension (PI: Zhou; Co-I: Ducker).
We are also currently preparing a second patent application for a software that I designed for the analysis of data. We have two papers under review, one with a major international journal and one as a chapter in an edit book. We hvae presented at various international conferences and will be presenting at a further international conference in the summer. According to the journal it is published in, our first paper had over 700 reads, although according to the web of science it has 3 citations to date.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
We have collected the data that we intended to collect. The knock on effect of the mechanism we developed (further funding applications) was not expected. We will also get more publications than expected: I expected to get 3 publications in total but we are on track to get 6. One is already published (January 2024), two are in review, and a further one is currently being written, even though we have not finished analysing data. We have made multiple presentations at various conferences overseas and in Japan, and the results are well received.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
This year we will continue to analyze the data and write up papers on: the use of the mechanism to combat the problem of non-ergodicity and static data in listening research; listening challenges in EMI; listening strategies across different contexts; a longitudinal study on coping in lectures. There are no changes in the original plan for this year.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to a slight delay, some money was not spent on transcriptions in January, 2024. The researcher would like to use the money to complete the transcriptions this year instead. This will help complete the analysis and writing work in time.
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