A basic study to enhance the effects of the foreign language instruction method based on the Consecutive Interpreting Approach and to establish its versatility

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520642
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Jichi Medical University
• Principal Investigator: IIZUKA Hideki 自治医科大学, 看護学部, 講師 (90617466)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: シャドーイング / リプロダクション / プロソディー / 逐次通訳

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Consecutive Interpreting Approach is a foreign language instruction method in which ‘shadowing’ to enhance students’ prosodic awareness and ‘reproduction’ to induce their voluntary output are integrated. The paper based on this approach won the ELEC prize in 2012. With the students’ permission, a part of the lesson was video-recorded and uploaded on the web at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdPhl5RUqbI
Some of the remarkable effects to be noted are that the participants improved their listening skills significantly and that 96 students in the class succeeded in reproducing, orally and in writing, 82.3% of the passage which is comprised of about 200 words.

Free Research Field

外国語教育