| 研究課題/領域番号 |
18K00767
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| 研究機関 | 近畿大学 |
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研究代表者 |
アトキンズ アンドリュー 近畿大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (70513331)
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| 研究分担者 |
Prichard Caleb 岡山大学, 全学教育・学生支援機構, 准教授 (10440306)
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| 研究期間 (年度) |
2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| キーワード | Reading competance / Reading strategies / Eye tracking / Reading Skills / Reading task performance |
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| 研究実績の概要 |
The first year of this project has been rather frustrating in terms of data collection. We purchased a Gazepoint GP3HD eyetracker with the hope that it would be a great improvement over the eyetrackers we already possessed with the view to purchasing a further unit if the tracker was accurate and reliable, however the tracker did not provide the performance we had hoped for. We are still losing a lot of data and this is unacceptable to journals, as well as the accuracy issues mentioned above. We submitted our first research paper to the journal "Reading in a Foreign Language" and it was rejected for a numberof reasons, most of which we have now rectified and the paper has been resubmitted. The problem still remains that for serious research the eyetracker needs to be more reliable.
Prichard and Atkins presented in Thessaloniki, Greece in May 2018 at a teaching conference about our initial research plans and pilot data. The title was "Exploring Selective Attention of L2 Readers through Eye Tracking". The presentation was well attended and received and we obtained some good critical advice about our project from those present. Prichard presented at the International Congress of Linguistics in July 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. The title was "Global Reading Strategies and Selective Attention". Atkins presented initial findings at a conference Innovation in Language Learning Conference in Florence in November.. The presentation was well received and valuable feedback was obtained.
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| 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
Although we are making some progress we have not proceeded as we had hoped. This year we obtained another Kaken grant and with that we will buy a high end machine that can be utilised in both of the projects. This should put us back on schedule. Our current eye trackers do not provide reliable and accurate tracking in poorly lit conditions orif participants have any kind of correction on their eyes. The machine
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| 今後の研究の推進方策 |
With access to a higher performance eye tracker we are planning to broaden our research project and collect data for a wider range of second language reading tasks. We plan to write at least two research papers using data from both of the convenience samples at our two universities. It is predicted that the research will be finished on schedule and be of a high enough standard to be published in prestigious journals such as Language Learning or TESOL Quarterly.
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| 次年度使用額が生じた理由 |
Due to the eye tracker we purchased being of a lowwer accuracy than we had hoped, we purchsed only one unit instead of the planned 2 units. We plan to use this leftover money together with this year's budget to purchase eye tracking software and part of an eye tracker.
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