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2019 年度 実施状況報告書

Assessing Foreign Language Activity Assistants' perspectives on primary Foreign Language Activities

研究課題

研究課題/領域番号 16K02952
研究機関福島大学

研究代表者

Mahoney Sean  福島大学, 行政政策学類, 准教授 (50292454)

研究分担者 猪井 新一  茨城大学, 教育学部, 教授 (80254887)
研究期間 (年度) 2016-10-21 – 2021-03-31
キーワード小学校外国語活動 / 外国語活動協力者 / ノン・ネイティブ・スピーカー / 教科 / 英語の非母語話者 / EAA / 外国語活動支援者 / 英語教育
研究実績の概要

In June, July, August, and November, the investigators presented at international and domestic conferences in Bangkok, Sapporo, Hirosaki, and Nagoya. They summarised the progress and challenges that Japanese and non-Japanese assistant (non-native English speaking) teachers revealed via extensive interviews. Conference attendees included teacher-trainers, other researchers, policymakers and team teachers, to whom we provided suggestions on issues such as improving teaching materials, raising awareness of the world’s Englishes, and motivating homeroom teachers to take on more of a leading role in English classes.
In two articles published in Japan and Korea, we further refined our findings and expanded on their implications, while demonstrating successes and failures to be learned from.

現在までの達成度 (区分)
現在までの達成度 (区分)

3: やや遅れている

理由

We decided to use SurveyMonkey for the large-scale survey, and transferred funding from FY 2018 to FY 2019. We had originally intended to send invitations to the bilingual online surveys to 5000 schools, but reduced the sample size to 4000 due to budgetary considerations. The late-September timing of the survey allowed even participants whose contracts began in August and September the time to gain at least some experience.
Since our target group can be found only in an estimated 11% of primary English classrooms, a response rate of 5-12% (n = 200-480 respondents from 4000 schools) would be deemed a success. So far, we have 271, but would like to increase the number of non-Japanese respondents in particular. For this reason, we have extended the survey into FY2020.

今後の研究の推進方策

Although job security for non-Japanese, non-native English speaking assistants in particular has been negatively affected by the coronavirus pandemic, we plan to reach out through boards of education, assistant recruiting agencies, and SNS groups to increase the number of survey respondents.
We will need to alter the wording of some questions to reflect the 2020 curriculum (and recent, pandemic-appropriate teaching styles), but the revised surveys will be kept as close as possible to the originals to allow for as many comparisons as possible. While the pandemic has postponed or cancelled opportunities for us to share our research findings at conferences, we intend to write new papers based on the new quantitative database.

次年度使用額が生じた理由

Again, in order to better compare online questionnaire responses, we decided it would be best to increase the number of non-Japanese respondents in particular. We shall do so by extending the survey into FY2020.
I’ve renewed the subscription to the SurveyMonkey Advanced Plan (52,200 yen, after an Educational Institution 25% discount) in order to add to the database in the first half of FY2020, and to continue processing and analysing data from all surveys in the second half.

備考

I intend to update my research homepage at www.ipc.fukushima-u.ac.jp/~a085/ to publicise as many of our results as copyrights allow.

  • 研究成果

    (6件)

すべて 2020 2019

すべて 雑誌論文 (2件) (うち国際共著 1件、 査読あり 2件) 学会発表 (4件) (うち国際学会 2件)

  • [雑誌論文] A new era: Non-native English-speaking assistants2020

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Mahoney, S.
    • 雑誌名

      JES Journal 20

      巻: - ページ: 210-225

    • 査読あり
  • [雑誌論文] Primary School English Classes: Japan’s Non-native English-Speaking Assistants2019

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Mahoney, S.
    • 雑誌名

      Korea TESOL Journal 15

      巻: 1 ページ: 227-233

    • 査読あり / 国際共著
  • [学会発表] Help from experienced non-native English-speakers at primary schools in Japan2019

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Mahoney, S.
    • 学会等名
      Asia TEFL
    • 国際学会
  • [学会発表] Bilingual and multilingual ALTs: A new era2019

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Mahoney, S.
    • 学会等名
      JES (小学校英語教育学会)2019
  • [学会発表] 外国語指導協力員とのインタビューから見える小学校英語授業の実情―HRT のT1 化を目指して―2019

    • 著者名/発表者名
      猪井新一、Mahoney, S.
    • 学会等名
      全国英語教育学会
  • [学会発表] Non-native English-speaking assistants at Shogakko2019

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Mahoney, S.
    • 学会等名
      Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT)
    • 国際学会

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公開日: 2021-01-27  

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