A study of Economics graduates' use of English at work: To raise awareness of English learning objectives

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370643
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: KIRIMURA RYO 立命館大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (40584090)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 英語教育 / ESP / 大学教育 / 学習目的 / 卒業生調査 / 動機づけ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To raise students' awareness of English learning objectives in the context of social science colleges, conducted were two rounds of a questionnaire survey of third-year alumni from College of Economics at a major private university. With 125 and 192 responses respectively, the results revealed that about 45 percent currently used English at work in the past year, making a remarkable contrast with a large sample survey claiming that only about 12 percent of adult Japanese use English at work. Also shown was that studying abroad and studying English were the top two of what the respondents thought students should work hard on when in college.

Free Research Field

英語教育