A NEW FRAMEWORK OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION AT AN EARLY STAGE

早期英语教学的新框架

• 批准号: 11680266
• 负责人: MATSUURA Nobukazu
• 金额: $ 2.37万
• 依托单位: Hiroshima University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1999 至 2000
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-11680266/
• 关键词: English Language Methodology; Instruction at an early stage; Classroom Analysis; 新教授法; 教育実験; 入門期英語教育; 英語授業論

The purpose of this paper is threefold. It aimed, first, to comprehensively examine the current instruction of English at an early stage of English Language Education, secondly, to present a new framework, and finally to demonstrate the usefulness of the framework. One of the reasons for the ineffectiveness of English Language Education is the learning environment. Students are forced to learn in a limited amount of time, having little time to repeat what they have learned. The framework is to provide a new instruction method to help students with this regard.First, a questionnaire study was conducted to reveal problems in English Language Education. 289 English teachers from various parts of Japan responded and the results were analyzed. It was found that their curricula were almost identical and they teach about 40 students four times a week. It was also revealed that they spent six to seven periods for one lesson of the textbook and the common procedure is Review-Introduction-Expansion-Practice. Comparison of the results with foreign language teaching in the US and the UK demonstrate a considerable difference in the amount and the speed of instruction.Based on the above findings, the new framework was constructed and teaching was conducted with the principle of "three times faster and repeat twice" for two terms. In an early stage, less difference in achievement than usual was observed. However, as learning progressed, the experimental group ceased to show differences from the control group, due to the delay of writing instruction. It was inferred that this was caused by the test method. The improvement in academic achievement observed in this experiment deserves much attention.Lastly, there are some remaining issues. A similar experiment should be done in a standard public school, for the current one was conducted in an affiliated school to a university. Also, measures to lessen resistance to the new instruction method should be explored.

本文件有三个目的。它的目的是，首先，全面审查目前的英语教学在英语语言教育的早期阶段，其次，提出一个新的框架，最后，以证明该框架的有用性。英语教育效果不佳的原因之一是学习环境。学生被迫在有限的时间内学习，几乎没有时间重复他们学到的东西。首先，通过问卷调查，揭示了英语教学中存在的问题。来自日本各地的289名英语教师回答了问题，并对结果进行了分析。结果发现，它们的课程几乎完全相同，每周四次为大约40名学生授课。研究还发现，学生们一节课要花6 ~ 7节课的时间，其程序通常是复习-介绍-扩展-练习。在此基础上，构建了新的教学框架，并以“三倍快，两次重复”为原则进行了两个学期的教学。在早期阶段，观察到的成就差异小于平时。然而，随着学习的进行，由于写作教学的延迟，实验组不再表现出与控制组的差异。据推断，这是由试验方法引起的。实验中观察到的学习成绩的提高值得关注。最后，还有一些问题有待解决。类似的实验应该在标准的公立学校进行，因为目前的实验是在一所大学的附属学校进行的。此外，还应探讨减少对新教学方法的阻力的措施。