Research and development for the teaching methods for authentic reading materials and courseware

这项为期三年的边听边读的研究计划取得了以下结果：(1)竹田由纪夫提出的三轮阅读法为基础的边听边读的方法，即使是国立理工学院的一年级学生，也可以用来学习阅读平装书等真实的阅读材料。(2)为期半年的边听边读对新生的影响的实验研究表明，如果采用三轮阅读和边听边读的暂停光盘法，学习成绩较差的学生在阅读理解方面的进步显著高于成绩较高的学生。此外，无论是成绩较差的学生，还是成绩较好的学生，他们的听力理解水平都得到了显著的提高。(3)问卷调查显示，采用停顿CD和非停顿CD的混合边听边读的学生对哪种方法对提高阅读理解能力的效果最好。另一方面，以下问题有待进一步研究解决。尽管《与莫里的星期二》一书的作者米奇·阿尔博姆承认，在学生购买这本书的实验中使用了这本书，但版权方面的某种限制也阻碍了相关教材和课件的进一步发展。最后，三轮阅读法的边听边读方法对阅读理解的影响值得进一步研究。

The three-year research program to investigate reading-while-listening has yielded the following results :(1) It was found that reading-while-listening with a paused CD based on the system of the Three-Round-Reading-Approach proposed by Yukio Takefuta could be used by even the first-year students at a national college of technology to learn to read authentic reading materials such as paperbacks.(2) The experimental research of the effects of reading-while-listening for half a year on the freshman students showed that if the Three-Round-Reading-Approach and reading-while-listening using a paused CD is adopted, the lower achievers' improvement in reading comprehension was statistically larger than that of higher achievers. Furthermore, not only among the lower achievers but also the higher ones gained significant improvement in listening comprehension.(3) According to the questionnaire survey, the students with a mixed reading-while-listening method using both the paused CDs and no-pause CDs responded most favorably to the question of which method should be effective for their improvement of reading comprehension.On the other hand, the following remains to be solved in the future research. Although Mitch Albom, the author of Tuesdays with Morrie acknowledged the use of the book for the experimentations with students purchasing the book, some kind of limit pertaining to copyrights prevented further development of the related teaching materials and courseware as well.Finally, the effect of the reading-while-listening method using both paused CDs and no-paused CDs on reading comprehension on Three-Round-Reading-Approach should be sought for future research.