The Effect of Shadowing and Oral Reading on Acquisition of English as FL: A NIRS Study

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320124
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: KADOTA Shuhei 関西学院大学, 法学部, 教授 (20191984)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NORO Tadashi 愛知学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (40218376) ; HASE Naoya 関西学院大学, 国際学部, 教授 (50309407) ; NAKANO Yoko 関西学院大学, 人間福祉学部, 教授 (20380298) ; SHIKI Osato 関西学院大学, 理工学部, 教授 (20369680) ; NAKANISHI Hiroshi 東北学院大学, 文学部, 准教授 (10582918) ; KAZAI Koji 関西学院大学, 理工学研究科, 専門技術員 (80388719)
• Research Collaborator: KAWASAKI Mariko 高崎経済大学, 非常勤講師
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: シャドーイング / 脳内処理 / 内的音声化 / リーディング / 近赤外分光法 / リスニング / 音韻ループ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Shadowing is a task for improving listening and speaking abilities in L2, in which learners track the heard speech and repeat it as exactly as possible while listening attentively to incoming messages. As a result of 4 year research, it is concluded that the shadowing training may not only enhance the Japanese EFL learners’ cerebral activities but increase their while-reading subvocalization in silent reading comprehension, which may suggest to us that the subvocal rehearsal efficiency is significantly improved in the learners’ phonological working memory.

Free Research Field

応用言語学、心理言語学。第二言語としての英語が、知覚・処理、記憶・学習される仕組みについての研究。