Development of a system for the selection of optimal listening materials for maximizing the effectiveness of autonomous English study

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520617
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Takefuta Junko 大阪大学, サイバーメディアセンター, 准教授 (00352740)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): DOI Mitsuru 千葉大学, 言語教育センター, 准教授 (00323428) ; TAKAHASHI Hideo 千葉大学, 言語教育センター, 教授 (30226873) ; YONAHA Nobue 文京学院大学, 外国語学部, 助教 (30522198)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 教育効果・測定 / コンピュータ適応型テスト

Outline of Final Research Achievements

When studying English, if the difficulty level of the educational materials is not suitable, or if the student does not have interest in or feel the need for such materials, the effectiveness and efficiency of learning will decrease. However, the current situation is that while educators will rely on their own experiences when assigning educational materials to students, the students themselves will often make selections based solely on their own interests and needs.
For this study - as a means of providing one possible solution to this problem - by developing a system that can enable the selection of the most optimal English listening educational materials for each student, through an accurate diagnosis of the student's proficiency levels and needs, we have succeeded in maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of English study using these corresponding educational materials.

Free Research Field

人文学