A Study of Elementary School English Education Activities : Curriculum Design and Teacher training

1)宫城县英语教育调查宫城县90%以上的小学每周教一次英语或每年至少教几次英语。调查还发现，宫城县7个学区中教授英语的学校数量在学校之间的差异比预期的要大得多。另一方面，学校实际教授英语的方式没有根本的区别。我们必须解决如何在英语教育仍然非常有限的学校促进英语教育的问题。2)韩国和马来西亚的英语教育我们还调查了韩国、马来西亚和美国的小学英语教育。在规划和组织小学在职教师英语强化教学培训课程，设计连贯的小学和初中英语教育课程时，应考虑这些调查结果。马来西亚的语言政策可以为小学、初中、高中和大学的英语教育课程提供一些启示。3)小学英语教育教师培训项目。几所大学一直在尝试建立专门针对小学英语教育的教师培训项目。其中包括宫城教育大学新设的英语传播系。它是小学新教育系的重要组成部分。4)理论基础研究作为一项基础理论研究，我们试图将Ellen Bialystok提出的语言能力理论框架与小学英语教育的一些基本问题联系起来。我们的结论是，日本的小学和初中英语教育应该基于“自然熟练”的概念，从会话到读写技能，再到元语言能力。我们还对人际交往中交际能力的组成部分进行了梳理，并得出结论：由于小学英语词汇和短语教学有限，非语言交际能力比语言交际能力更能得到培养。少

1)A Survey on English Education in Miyagi PrefectureMore than 90% of primary schools in Miyagi prefecture are teaching English once a week or al least several times a year. It was also found that there were significant differences between schools far larger than expected, in terms of the number of schools which were teaching English among the seven school districts of Miyagi prefecture. On the other hand, there were no basic differences in the way schools actually taught English. We have to address the question of how we can promote English education in schools in which English education is still very limited.2)English education in Korea and MalaysiaWe also surveyed the English education at the primary school-level in Korea, Malaysia, and the United States of America. These survey results should be taken into account in planning and organizing intensive English teaching training courses for in-service teachers in primary school, and designing coherent English education curriculums for … More both primary and junior high school. The language policy in Malaysia can provide some insights into the curriculums for English education at primary school, junior and senior high school and college.3)Teacher training program for English education at primary school.Several universities have been trying to establish teacher training programs exclusively for English education at primary school level. Among them is the new department, English communication, of Miyagi University of Education. It is a major part of the new education faculty of primary school.4)Theoretical basic studyAs a basic theoretical study, we have attempted to relate the theoretical framework of language proficiency proposed by Ellen Bialystok to some fundamental issues associated with English education in primary school. Our conclusion is that English education at primary and junior high school in Japan should be based on the notion of "natural proficiency" from conversational through reading- and writing-based skills to metalinguistic ability. We also clarified the components of communication competence in interpersonal communication and came to a conclusion that nonverbal communication competence can be developed better than verbal communication competence since English words and phrases taught at primary schools are limited. Less