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

日本学校的英语教育不能满足社会需求的原因之一似乎在于教师缺乏适当的语言教学方法的知识和经验，以及缺乏通过适当的交际式语言教学方法教授自己的学习经验。更具体地说，无论是教师对以任务和形式为中心的交际语言教学方法的理解，还是从意义为中心到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。本研究旨在探讨运用社会文化理论的英语教学任务和形式对英语教师英语水平和英语教学观的影响，从而设计和开发一套针对大学职前教师的英语教师教育计划。

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.