Studies on Language Teacher Cognition to Develop Teacher Education in Elementary School English Education

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370699
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kanda University of International Studies
• Principal Investigator: Tanaka Makiko 神田外語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (40236633)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAWAI Hiromi 神田外語大学, 児童英語教育研究センター, 講師 (10716434) ; HONDA Masatoshi 筑波大学, 大学院人文社会科学研究科文芸・言語専攻, 院生 (20554827)
• Research Collaborator: SASAKI Seira
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 英語教育 / 児童英語教育 / 教師教育 / 教員研修 / 文字指導 / 教師認知

Outline of Final Research Achievements

English is going to be introduced officially into an elementary school curriculum as a subject, and both college students taking the teacher education courses and elementary school teachers feel a strong urge to teach children alphabet letters. The latter have desires to teach letters to children, but it has become clear that they do not have skills of how to teach letters, and how to incorporate it and create lesson plans. Teachers now are recognising English skills and English teaching skills to conduct effective lessons, but at the same time they are at a loss what to do with teaching of letters as there is no specific directions about it. The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, and Technology should clearly indicate its objectives and goals regarding reading and writing of letters (and words) as clearly and as soon as possible for a successful English Education of the years coming ahead of us.

Free Research Field

英語教育、児童英語教育、認知発達、教師教育