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Examining Japanese university students' ability to write summaries in English and developing summarization instruction materials for university-level L2 writing education in Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K02983
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

Sawaki Yasuyo  早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (00276619)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 石井 雄隆  早稲田大学, 大学総合研究センター, 助手 (90756545)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywordsライティング評価 / ライティング指導 / パフォーマンス評価 / 大学英語教育 / 技能統合 / 学術的文章作成 / アカデミック・リテラシー / 要約 / 要約作成 / 一般化可能性分析 / ライティング・プロセス / 言語学 / 外国語教育 / 教育評価・測定 / 要約教材
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The primary purposes of the present study were to examine Japanese university students' ability to read a text in English and write a summary of it in English and to develop summarization instruction materials for university-level English writing education in Japan. Through combining a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methods, this study examined the validity of analytic rating scales for assessing summary writing performance as well as the consistency of scores assigned by raters to learner-produced summaries based on those rating scales. The study also identified characteristics of the process and product of Japanese university students’ summary writing performance. Summarization instruction materials developed as part of this study were compared against an existing second language academic writing course textbook in terms of the effects on learners' summary writing performance as well.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

要約ライティングは英語でのアカデミック・リテラシー育成のうえで重要なスキルであるが、これまで日本の大学生を扱った同テーマの先行研究は少なく、従って日本人学習者の要約ライティング力がどの程度で、またどのような強み・弱みがあるかなどのパフォーマンスの特徴に関する実証研究結果や、日本人学習者に合った効果的な要約ライティング指導法に関する情報は豊富だとは言えない。本研究はこれらのニーズに応えるべく、日本の大学英語教育において要約を効果的に指導していくための基盤づくりに寄与し、要約ライティングに関する研究・指導の在り方の一方向性を示すものである。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2019 2018 2017

All Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Presentation] Japanese university students’ paraphrasing strategies in L2 summary writing2019

    • Author(s)
      Yasuyo Sawaki, Yutaka Ishii & Hiroaki Yamada
    • Organizer
      Language Testing Research Colloquium 2019 (International Language Testing Association)
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 「大学英語ライティング授業における要約作成指導と評価」2019

    • Author(s)
      澤木泰代・石井雄隆・太原達朗
    • Organizer
      第48回日本言語テスト学会研究例会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Assessing content for enhancing construct representation in source-based writing performance assessment2018

    • Author(s)
      Yasuyo Sawaki
    • Organizer
      Language Testing Research Colloquium 2018 (International Language Testing Association)
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A mixed-methods investigation into Japanese EFL learners’ online revision activities during the reading-into-writing task completion process2018

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Ishii & Yasuyo Sawaki
    • Organizer
      Symposium on Second Language Writing
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Generalizability of content analytic rating scales for assessing university-level Japanese EFL learners’ summarization performance2017

    • Author(s)
      Yasuyo Sawaki
    • Organizer
      Fundamental Considerations in Language Testing: An International Conference in Honor of Lyle Bachman
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] An analysis of Japanese EFL learners’ reading-to-write task completion process:Triangulation of stimulated recall and keystroke logging data sources2017

    • Author(s)
      Yutaka Ishii, Yasuyo Sawaki, & Tatsuro Tahara
    • Organizer
      The 21st Annual Conference of the Japan Language Testing Association
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Chapter 2 (Univariate generalizability theory in language assessment), Quantitative data analysis for language assessment, Volume I, Fundamental techniques (1st edition)2019

    • Author(s)
      Yasuyo Sawaki & Xiaoming Xi
    • Total Pages
      24
    • Publisher
      New York: Routledge
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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