Extensive reading for adult students: Development of an extensive reading educational model as a university outreach program

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370631
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: The University of Kitakyushu
• Principal Investigator: Okamoto Kiyomi 北九州市立大学, 基盤教育センター, 准教授 (20533631)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 金子 恵美子 会津大学, コンピュータ理工学部, 教授 (30533624) ; ロブ トーマス 京都産業大学, その他(名誉教授), 名誉教授 (30148366) ; 辻井 洋行 北九州市立大学, 基盤教育センター, 准教授 (20364143)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 英語多読 / 大学アウトリーチ / 企業内英語教育 / 成人教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

As more Japanese companies go global, their need for English language education program has also been growing. To find out if extensive reading (ER), now popular in universities in Japan, is valid in the company education context as well, we undertook the development of an educational model using ER as a university outreach program for local business communities and experimented it over the course of four years in two Japanese cities. We concluded that it is more practical and beneficial for both the program provider (university) and the participating companies to have an intermediary body, such as local business associations which have strong ties with the local business community, hosting an ER course.

Free Research Field

外国語教育