Development of an online system to support English-medium instruction in science and engineering

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24300273
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: Kunioshi Nilson 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 教授 (30254577)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Noguchi Judy 神戸学院大学, グローバル・コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (30351787) ; Tojo Kazuko 大阪女学院大学, 国際・英語学部, 教授 (20258346) ; Hayashi Hiroko 大阪大学, 国際教育交流センター, 非常勤講師 (90437377)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 英語による教授法 / 理工系講義ディスコース

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to support teachers and students who are involved in English-medium instruction and are nonnative English speakers, we built the Online Corpus of Academic Lectures (OnCAL, http://www.oncal.sci.waseda.ac.jp/) from 430 lecture transcripts made available by MIT and Stanford University. We identified various pedagogical functions, which are related to different types of explanations in the classroom discourse, so that OnCAL users can see in detail how native English speakers use language in the classroom to realize each pedagogical purpose.

Free Research Field

科学教育における言語解析