Developing CLIL Curriculum and CLIL teacher education program for Foreign language activities

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370723
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Utsunomiya University
• Principal Investigator: Yamano Yuki 宇都宮大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (10725279)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 池田 真 上智大学, 文学部, 教授 (10317498) ; 笹島 茂 東洋英和女学院大学, 国際社会学部, 教授 (80301464) ; 金森 強 文教大学, 教育学部, 教授 (90204544) ; 坂本 ひとみ 東洋学園大学, 東洋学園大学グローバル・コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (10205776)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: CLIL / 外国語活動 / 小学校英語教育 / 教科横断型カリキュラム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to develop CLIL curriculum and teacher training program in order to improve English language education at primary school in Japan. CLIL includes four important aspects, known as the 4Cs: Content (subject matter), Communication (language learned and used in the CLIL lesson), Cognition (cognitive skills), and Community/Culture (awareness toward learning community and pluricultural understanding). Based on the 4Cs perspectives, this study creates 12 CLIL lesson plans considering the course of study and Japanese educational contexts. Furthermore, this also shows the positive potentiality of CLIL application by utilising these lesson plans for teacher training program.

Free Research Field

英語教育学、児童英語教育、第２言語習得理論研究