A Study on the Curriculum Development of Elementary School English ---Aim for More Active Roles of Homeroom Teachers

我从文学研究入手。我仔细研究了过去有关这方面的研究和报告。这项研究的第一年恰逢我们部门设立了一个新的专业，称为“跨文化交际课程”。本课程的课程开发与管理成为本人研究的一部分。我报告了在运行的新课程，旨在培养未来的小学教师谁将能够在小学教英语在各种会议上的努力，在每一个新的数据。我对小学生的英语知识和国际理解进行了调查。结果表明，小学生已经具备了一定的英语语言知识，也就是说，他们并不是在进入初中时才开始学习英语的。我还调查了小学和初中教师，发现他们有着同样的担忧，即 关于我们 因此，双方教师的合作是非常必要的。2004年9月，我访问了美国，了解了一些英语作为第二语言教学的方法。2004年3月和11月，我访问了韩国，观察了韩国小学生的英语教学。2004年，我根据前一年的研究结果，为日本小学教师组织了几次研讨会。至于学术报告，我在8月举行的日本小学英语教学协会年会上发表了一篇关于韩国小学英语教学方式的论文。这篇文章发表在日本小学英语教学协会杂志上。2004年12月，我和其他三位合作者组织了一次研讨会，题目是“对未来小学英语课程发展的建议”。“我还根据过去两年的研究结果向教育期刊和一份报纸发表了其他文章。少

I began the research with literature study. I examined the past studies and reports on the related areas carefully. The first year of this study coincided with the establishment of a new major called "Cross-Cultural Communication Course" in our department. The curriculum development and the management of this course became a part of my study. I reported the efforts in running the new course which aims for educating prospective elementary school teachers who will be able to teach English at elementary school at various conferences with new data at each time. I conducted a survey on elementary school children's knowledge on English and international understanding. It turned out that the elementary school children possess certain knowledge on the English language already, i.e. it is not at entering junior high school that they begin to study English for the first time. I also surveyed elementary school and junior high school teachers, and found that they shared the same concern, i.e. the … More collaboration of both teachers are acutely necessary. In September 2004, 1 visited the U.S. and learned about some methodologies in teaching English as a second language. I visited Korea and observed their way of teaching English to elementary school children in March 2004,and again November,2004.In 2004,based on the research findings that I obtained in the previous year, I organized several seminars for Japanese elementary school teachers. As for academic presentations, I presented a paper on Korean Way of Teaching English at Elementary School in August at the annual meeting of the Japan Association of English Teaching in Elementary Schools. This was published in the Journal of the Japan Association of English Teaching in Elementary Schools. In December, 2004,I organized a symposium with three other presenters who collaborated with me on the title of "Suggestions for Future Elementary School English Curriculum Development." I also contributed other articles based on the research findings of the past two years to educational journals and a newspaper. Less