2016 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
| Project/Area Number |
26370638
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
Sheppard Chris 早稲田大学, 理工学術院, 准教授 (60350386)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
Manalo Emmanuel 京都大学, 教育学研究科, 教授 (30580386)
木下 直子 早稲田大学, 日本語教育研究センター, 准教授 (40364715)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | Critical Thinking / English Education / Task Difficulty / Linguistic Relativism |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The project has attained the following in the 2016 academic year. 1) Found that a) in all cases, language learners were more critically evaluative in their first language than they were in their second language, and 2) the limitations in critical evaluations could be partially explained by second language proficiency. 2) The complexity of a task influenced critical expression. The simple task included more critical expression, whereas the complex task included more descriptive expressions. 3) Stylistic shift was more likely in complex tasks in the second language, and 4) Stylistic shifts were more likely to take place at descriptive/evaluative boundaries in the text. Finally, a research symposium was held in cooperation with The JACET CT sig in March, 2017.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The data for this project has now been collected as planned. The data has been collected and analysed, and the preliminary results have been reported.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The plans for the 2017 academic year are to write up the research, and submit the paper to an international Journal. The plan is to submit the main result to Thinking Skills and Creativity.
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| Causes of Carryover |
研究発表は3月にやる予定でしたが、2017年度の学会は3月ではなく4月1日に行われたため、延長しました。
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
結果成果書及び結果発表の援助に使用する予定です。
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