Developing teacher education program for Japanese teacher of English based on their learning proceses

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370739
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: Kurihara Yuka 東海大学, 清水教養教育センター, 准教授 (50514981)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 海外研修 / 教師教育 / アプロプリエーション / 文化・社会的発達理論 / ヴィゴツキー / 現役英語教員

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines (1) what junior and senior high school English teachers,who participated in the overseas teacher education program for two weeks, learned in the program, and (2) how they appropriated what the program offered into their own teaching practices after they returned to Japan. The participants of the study were: two program instructors, two program coordinators, and three Japanese teachers of English. The qualitative data were collected mainly through interviews, classroom observations, and other teaching related materials.The main findings of the study suggest that the three participants appropriated some pedagogical knowledge the program offered by making use of various social settings, including school cultures, their past teacher training programs, and their own beliefs about English teaching and learning.

Free Research Field

言語学・外国語教育