2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research and Development of an Effective Way of Having Learners Express Their Ideas and Opinions in the English Classroom
Project/Area Number |
24531159
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Education on school subjects and activities
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Research Institution | Jin-ai University |
Principal Investigator |
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Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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Keywords | 指導法 / 意見・考え / タスク / アウトプット / スキル統合 / CAF / アクティブ・ラーニング |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The present study addressed the research and development of an effective way of having learners express their ideas and opinions in the English classroom. It is often said that learners are unable to express themselves in English easily for the following reasons: their English proficiency is not good enough to express their thoughts, they have difficulty in forming their opinions, and they feel affective pressure in expressing their ideas and opinions. We have developed an effective way which enables learners to overcome these obstacles and verified its effectiveness by examining various aspects such as quantity and quality of learners' output, instructors' evaluation of the output, and learners' responses to the method. The teaching method we propose, Narrow Learning with a Built-in Core Task, is a skill-integrated learning process focusing on a single topic which includes a task that requires learners to express their ideas and opinions.
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Free Research Field |
英語教育学
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