A Basic Research for Introducing Program Evaluation and its Strategic Diffusion in English Education at the University Level

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This study attempts to examine the methodology of project-based English education, and demonstrates its effectiveness from the learners' perspective.The aim of this study is to analyze three components and seven traits as a framework for analyzing the efficacy of project methodology from the learners' viewpoint, and it suggests both a guiding principle for practicing project-based education and evaluation criteria.This study firstly analyzes the present state of English education in Japan, revealing that its problems correlate strongly with the lack of learner's self-confidence. To deal with this issue, this study proposes project-based English education, which was originally proposed and practiced by N.Yuji Suzuki, Shigenori Tanaka, and Minoru Shimozaki. After reviewing previous theoretical studies, it analyzes the theoretical features of project-based English education from the learners' viewpoint and then explores how the project-based methodology functions as well as its possible implications for English education. Then the study attempts to validate the methodology through the observation of participants and a case study at the Colleges of Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ritsumeikan University. Finally, presenting the assessment, it discusses contemporary evaluation-related issues and presents the notion of "assistant evaluation" by proposing experimental principles that support its feasibility.