2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The development and evaluation of the facilitative way for expanding English vocabulary based on embodied cognition
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22700826
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Educational technology
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| Research Institution | Toyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
SUZUKI Akio 東洋大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (00406373)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 身体性認知科学 / 視認語 / 教育手法 / 外国語語彙習得 |
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| Research Abstract |
As for the comprehension of texts written in English as a foreign language, I conducted the following two examinations. In the first examination, I found that larger English vocabulary leads to the better construction of the propositional text-base rather than the situation model. In the second examination, I found that the learners who followed the methodology which was developed according to the knowledge of embodied cognition outperformed those who followed the other way. From these two examinations, it can be arguably said that English vocabulary learning has more effect on the level of propositional text-base comprehension than that of situation model comprehension, and the methodology based on the knowledge of embodied cognition is effective in order to expand English vocabulary for the learners of English as a foreign language.
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