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“成绩测试”，这是继去年进行的“起跑线检查测试”之后的后续测试。这是一个纸面测试，看看初中生在第一学年结束时取得了多少成绩（N=470）。另外，在韩国汉南大学的李教授（63名）的帮助下，调查了韩国版的写作教师信念。此外，我还调查了金泽市英语教师对小学和初中英语教学协作的看法（N=22）。我邀请李教授到我的实验室，我们讨论了英语语言教育的各种话题。他还进行了“韩国英语教育和考试”的公开演讲。在实证研究方面，我实验室的一位初中教师进行了一系列的课程来确定识字教学对小学生的影响。由于今年是项目的最后一年，我分析了过去两年我们进行的几项研究的结果。根据这些研究的结果，我们试图确定学生在英语语言学习的起点上遇到的困难。此外，利用这些发现，我们开发了一些教材。其中一篇是《初中生受日语干扰诱发的中介语错误清单》。我还写了一本书《停止日本人的思维方式（如何更好地写英语）》。作为既适用于小学又适用于初中的教材，我们开展了“A Song Project”，制作了多套教材和教学计划。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.