2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An Empirical Study on the Internal and External Factors in the University students' Engish Language Competence for accomplishing an International Collaborative Project
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24520685
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Nagasaki Junshin Catholic University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ISHIDA Kenichi 長崎純心大学, 人文学部, 教授 (50284138)
YOSHIHARA Shota 長崎純心大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (30321318)
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| Research Collaborator |
SCHULTHEIS Klaudia
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 国際研究者交流 / ｸﾞﾛｰﾊﾞﾙｺﾝﾋﾟﾃﾝｽ国際比較 / ﾌﾟﾛｼﾞｪｸﾄ方式学習 / 国際協働作業力 / ｸﾞﾛｰﾊﾞﾙ人材育成 / SNS活用 / グループ討論データ分析 / 知識構築過程分析 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research based on an international project involving university students from six countries including Japan, yielded these results:
(1) As to the effects of Project/Competence-Based Education practice, group averages for English communication ability failed to improve statistically after 4 months but the participants showed growth in confidence, enthusiasm and cross-cultural understanding. (2) Significantly influencing positively English development was seen if working alone as a Japanese within a group or if among the Japanese members in a group, one member had a stable and diplomatic personality plus leadership skills. (3) As for international collaborative competence, despite expressing their opinions remarkably less than other countries’ members in a group, the Japanese students could act to fulfill their role but instruction in logical, critical and analytic thinking in the scheme of cooperative know-how, openly expressing themselves and comprehending others is necessary.
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| Free Research Field |
英語教育学
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