English Teacher Education for English Language Teaching with Tasks and Focus on Form Drawing on Sociocultural Theory

日本学校英语教育不能满足社会需要的原因之一，似乎是教师缺乏适当的语言教学方法的知识和经验，以及缺乏适当的交际性语言教学方法所教授的自己的学习经验。更具体地说，我们假设教师对交际语言教学方法的理解和对形式的关注，以及从以意义为中心的语言使用到以形式为中心的语言学习的教学顺序的实施，实际上都是不够的。本研究旨在探讨职前大学教师的英语教学使用任务对其英语语言能力的影响，并以社会文化理论为基础，设计和开发一套针对职前大学教师的英语教师教育方案。

One of the reasons English language education at Japanese school has not met the needs from society seems to lie in lack of teachers' knowledge and experience of appropriate language teaching methodology, as well as lack of their own learning experience taught by an appropriate communicative language teaching method. More specifically,it was assumed that neither teachers' understanding about communicative language teaching methodology using task and focus on form nor implementation of teaching the sequence of which is developed from meaning-focused language use to form-focused language learning are in fact sufficient. This research was intended to design and develop an English language teacher education program for pre-service teachers at university by exploring the influence of English language teaching employing task and focus on form that draws on sociocultural theory on their English language proficiency and views about English language teaching.