A Product Design Theme Based Approach to Teaching English for Engineers

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26770209
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kagawa National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: MORI KAZUNORI 香川高等専門学校, その他部局等, 准教授 (60353330)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 英語教育 / スピーキング指導 / 教材開発 / ものづくり / CLIL

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This is a case study of robotics themed English conversation lessons in order to establish the new teaching approach to use them in English language teaching in terms of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). LEGO Education WeDo and LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 are used as medium for English conversation, which simulates authentic tasks for students who will work as engineers in the future. The conversation among students was recorded and analyzed to see what kind of English expressions and strategies were used. The result of the analysis were applied to make teaching materials and the lessons were implemented in the several colleges and they were to some extent successful from the aspect of Active Learning.

Free Research Field

英語教育