A Study on the Curriculum Development of Elementary School English ---Aim for More Active Roles of Homeroom Teachers

笔者从文献研究入手进行研究。我仔细研究了过去有关相关领域的研究和报告。这项研究的第一年恰逢我们系开设了一个新的专业--跨文化交际课。这门课程的开发和管理成了我学习的一部分。我报告了开办新课程的努力，该课程旨在培养未来的小学教师，他们将能够在各种会议上教授小学英语，每次都有新的数据。我对小学生的英语知识和国际理解进行了调查。事实证明，小学生已经具备了一定的英语知识，也就是说，他们不是在进入初中时才开始学习英语的。我也调查了小学和初中的老师，发现他们有相同的担忧，即…两位教师之间的更多合作是非常必要的。2004年9月，我访问了美国，了解了一些将英语作为第二语言进行教学的方法。2004年3月和2004年11月，我访问了韩国，考察了他们教小学生英语的方式。2004年，我根据前一年的研究结果，为日本小学教师组织了几次研讨会。至于学术报告，我在8月份的日本小学英语教学协会年会上发表了一篇关于韩国小学英语教学方法的论文。这项研究发表在《日本小学英语教学协会杂志》上。2004年12月，我与其他三位主持人组织了一次研讨会，他们与我合作，题目是“对未来小学英语课程发展的建议”。我还根据过去两年的研究成果向教育期刊和一家报纸投稿了其他文章。较少

I began the research with literature study. I examined the past studies and reports on the related areas carefully. The first year of this study coincided with the establishment of a new major called "Cross-Cultural Communication Course" in our department. The curriculum development and the management of this course became a part of my study. I reported the efforts in running the new course which aims for educating prospective elementary school teachers who will be able to teach English at elementary school at various conferences with new data at each time. I conducted a survey on elementary school children's knowledge on English and international understanding. It turned out that the elementary school children possess certain knowledge on the English language already, i.e. it is not at entering junior high school that they begin to study English for the first time. I also surveyed elementary school and junior high school teachers, and found that they shared the same concern, i.e. the … More collaboration of both teachers are acutely necessary. In September 2004, 1 visited the U.S. and learned about some methodologies in teaching English as a second language. I visited Korea and observed their way of teaching English to elementary school children in March 2004,and again November,2004.In 2004,based on the research findings that I obtained in the previous year, I organized several seminars for Japanese elementary school teachers. As for academic presentations, I presented a paper on Korean Way of Teaching English at Elementary School in August at the annual meeting of the Japan Association of English Teaching in Elementary Schools. This was published in the Journal of the Japan Association of English Teaching in Elementary Schools. In December, 2004,I organized a symposium with three other presenters who collaborated with me on the title of "Suggestions for Future Elementary School English Curriculum Development." I also contributed other articles based on the research findings of the past two years to educational journals and a newspaper. Less