Building an effective design of foreign language activities that teachers don't have burden feelings

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25381240
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Joetsu University of Education
• Principal Investigator: Mizuochi Yoshiaki 上越教育大学, 学校教育研究科(研究院), 教授 (40510053)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HASEGAWA Haruo 富山大学, 大学院教職実践開発研究科, 准教授 (80635144) ; KIRYU Tooru 上越教育大学, 大学院学校教育研究科, 教授 (20713259)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 教科教育学 / 教育工学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, I did the educational practices and its evaluation that learners themselves translated Japanese lines into English ones and did the English drama by the tablet devices attached the software on reading translation by the speech recognizing function.
As a result, it was suggested that the possibility of learning design of foreign language activities in elementary schools like learners helped each other, such as learners could ensure English use the number of times and learner’s awareness of foreign language activities was increased.In addition, from something like interviews through the practice, it became clear that changing learning designs as less English pronunciation and translation reduced teachers’ burden feelings for the foreign language activities in elementary schools.

Free Research Field

教育工学