2014 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Examining the Effectiveness of Phonetic Negotiation of Form in L2 Pronunciation Pedagogy for Practical Communicative Competence
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25381229
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| Research Institution | Tsuruoka National College of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
阿部 秀樹 鶴岡工業高等専門学校, その他部局等, その他 (20300527)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | L2 pronunciation / FFI / weak forms |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
L2 pronunciation studies in the 2000s shifted their interest to examining the assumption that the FonF approach vigorously investigated in morpho-syntactics might contribute to the betterment of L2 pronunciation (cf. Saito, 2012). However, the FonF type of instruction does not always and completely outperform Focus on FormS (FonFs), in which sequenced and fragmented items are presented to the learners stepwise, in the hope that the learners will acquire the system of the target language with the passage of time. Further investigation is thus required to answer the question, Is FFI appropriate to promote the acquisition of L2 pronunciation in the classroom? At present, this line of inquiry has just started.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Since I was involved in completing my PhD thesis, which examines effectiveness of instruction on second language (L2) development from the perspectives of Form-Focused Instruction (FFI), more precisely, Focus on Form (FonF) (Doughty, 2003; Long & Robinson, 1998; Norris & Ortega, 2000; to mention just a few). This is at the final stage, and will be finished soon.
The next semester will be devoted to classroom experiment to be conducted during a regularly scheduled classroom. The number of participants was 30 in the experimental group (EG) and 31 in the control group (CG), who are relatively similar in terms of their background, goals in learning English, level of English proficiency, and engagement in the subject.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The current study presents an attempt to remedy this situation by reporting the findings of an inquiry which examines the two research questions regarding examining the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
The classroom experiment will be conducted over a period of three months and consisted of a pre-test, treatment sessions, a post-test, and a delayed-post-test in the next semester. The pre-test takes place in week 1, prior to the perception and production treatment sessions, which consists of 4 class hours in week 2, in both groups. Then, in week 3, the participants take the post-test, and the delayed rest one month after.
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| Causes of Carryover |
英文校正を発注した際、見積もり以降に、想定外の割引が生じた。これは、英文校正者が想定された仕事量より手間がかからなかったと判断したときの割引のようで、これは見積もり段階では予見できず、差額が生じた。
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
物品購入その他で使用予定でいる。
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