How to Cope with Difficulties in English Language Learning at the Starting Point

作为项目的第二年，我进行了几项研究。首先，我们进行了“成就测试”，这是继去年进行的“起跑线测试”之后的后续测试。这是一个纸上测试，看看初中学生在第一年结束时取得了多少成绩（N=470）。我还调查了韩国版本的教师信念写作教学的帮助下，李教授在汉南大学，韩国（N=63）。此外，我还对金泽市的22名英语教师进行了关于小学和初中英语教学合作的调查，并邀请李教授到我的实验室，就英语教育的各种话题进行了讨论。此外，还公开发表了关于韩国英语教育和考试的演讲。关于实证研究，本实验室的一位初中教师为了确定小学生识字教学的效果，进行了一系列的实验。由于今年是项目的最后一年，所以我分析了过去两年中我们进行的几次研究的结果。根据这些研究结果，我们试图确定学生在英语学习的起点上遇到的困难。此外，利用这些发现，我们开发了一些教学材料。其中之一是《日本语干扰导致的初中生中介语错误一览表》。我还写了一本书《停止日本人的思维方式》（如何写得更好）。作为适用于小学和初中的教材，我们进行了“一首歌计划”，并制作了几份材料和教学计划。作为最后阶段，我编写了一份研究报告。

As the second year of the project, I conducted several studies. First of all, we conducted "Achievement Test", which was meant to be a follow-up test after "Start line Check Test" conducted last year. This was to see as a paper test how much the junior high school students achieved at the end of their first year (N=470). I also surveyed the Korean version of teacher belief on writing instruction with the aid of Professor Lee at Hannam University, Korea (N=63). In addition, I also took a survey of English teachers in Kanazawa City regarding their belief on English teaching collaboration between elementary school and junior high school (N=22).I invited Professor Lee to my laboratory and we discussed on various topics on English language education. He also gave a talk on Korean English education and testing, which was open to public.As for an empirical study, a junior high school teacher who belonged to my lab conducted a series of lessons to determine the effect of literacy teaching to elementary school children.Since this year was the final year of the project, I analyzed the results of several studies we conducted in the past two years. Based on the results of those studies, we tried to determine the difficulties the students come to have at the starting point of English language study. In addition, utilizing those findings, we developed some teaching materials. One of them is "A List of Interlanguage Errors of Junior High School Students Induced by Interference from Japanese." I also wrote a book Stop Japanese Way of Thinking (How to Write English Better). As teaching materials usable both for elementary school and junior high school, we conducted "A Song Project" and made several materials and teaching plans.As a final stage, I compiled a report of this research.