2015 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
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26370668
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| Research Institution | The University of Shimane |
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Principal Investigator |
E・A Kane 島根県立大学, 総合政策学部, 准教授 (40273916)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | CLIL / telecollaboration / intercultural |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During this academic year, in my research project 'Video collaboration in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)', I arranged a total of 17 content-based video links for my students with overseas universities. With my research partner at East Carolina University, we had a total of 5 links (drama/ folktales/ Japanese performing arts). I also linked with Krosno State College in Poland 4 times (Polish society/ LGBT issues/ the decline of religion in both countries/ graduation thesis topics). I linked with Fujien Catholic University in Taiwan 3 times (culture, folktales), and ESAN Univeristy, Peru 4 times (food culture, religion, successful lifestyles), and Pakistan once (traditional Pakistani art, food, and women's clothing.)
I conducted outreach work with local children twice, once using a live video link with East Carolina University, and once face-to-face when East Carolina students came to visit Shimane.
I organised a CLIL symposium on May 22nd, attended by 17 teachers and 5 students on teacher education courses. The symposium featured a two-hour workshop by a professor from Sophia University, Japan; poster presentations on CLIL courses in Japan by four researchers, and two presentations about video linking and CLIL.
I published one paper on CLIL, and wrote another which will be published in May 2016. I made five presentations in China and Japan about the project. I wrote a CLIL textbook about Language (127 pages).
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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
More teachers in this region are interested in CLIL. This year I am teaching my first large-scale compulsory class using CLIL; previously I had piloted materials with small groups of 10 to 20 students who have high English proficiency. I have made contact with many researchers overseas who want to collaborate by video link on content-based materials. In particular, my seminar group now has a sister seminar group in Poland, whom we contact regularly to discuss progress on graduation theses. Students are learning the 21st-century soft skills on CLIL video linking courses.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
April to July: piloting first CLIL class for a large required course ( 48 students). Students will be surveyed about traditional CLT and CLIL courses.
Linked with ECU to discuss Japanese performing arts. May: present findings at Global Partners in Education in Russia with my research partner from East Carolina University; discuss future video collaboration for content with other overseas researchers. June: link with Krosno State College, Poland. July: workshop in Japan for English teachers about using content in the classroom. I will present my research project at JACET on July 3rd.
September: CLIL'ize my video linking course which is open to all students at the university. October to February: continue with material writing for compulsory CLIL course; try to encourage other teachers to use CLIL in larger classes. Write up (i) a cross-curricular CLIL project I am working on, and (ii) scaffolding content-based video links through CLIL methodology.
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| Causes of Carryover |
My research partner was unable to visit in May for various reasons, but was able to come in October and stayed only for three days.
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
Trip to Russia May 2016 to attend and present at Global Partners in Education 8; trip to Tokyo in July 2016 to present on CLIL. Workshop with my research partner in July.
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| Remarks |
My blog is regularly updated with photographs of video links and presentations.
eleanorannekane.wordpress.com
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