著者

西澤 一 吉岡 貴芳 伊藤 和晃

出版者

Japanese Society for Engineering Education

雑誌

工学教育 (ISSN:13412167)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.56, no.1, pp.1_72-1_76, 2008 (Released:2008-02-13)

参考文献数

8

被引用文献数

1

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Three years of extensive reading lessons have improved engineering students′ reading and listening skills in English. The average TOEIC score has increased to 441 points, and the relative numbers of students of lower scores than 350 points have decreased to 14% in the third year when the median reading amount of easy-to-read English texts is about a half million words. The critical success factors are the reading amount and the easiness of English texts read especially in the first term. When students read extremely easy English texts with the help of pictures, they can finally avoid the translation into Japanese and grasp the meaning of the texts directly in English

著者

西澤 一 吉岡 貴芳 伊藤 和晃

出版者

Japanese Society for Engineering Education

雑誌

工学教育 (ISSN:13412167)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.58, no.3, pp.3_12-3_17, 2010 (Released:2010-06-08)

参考文献数

18

被引用文献数

1 2

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This article introduces extensive reading (ER) as an approach to improve fundamental communication skills in English of reluctant EFL learners : average Japanese engineering students. It is distinct from concurrent translation approach from a perspective that the learners use English instead of Japanese to grasp the meaning of what they read and enjoy reading. In the ER program at Toyota National College of Technology, many students developed more positive attitude toward English, increased their reading speed, and achieved higher TOEIC scores, which was compared to those of the students before this ER program was introduced. Comparison between three groups of the students showed strong correlation between their TOEIC scores and the reading amount.

著者

西澤 一 吉岡 貴芳 伊藤 和晃 長岡 美晴 弘山 貞夫 浅井 晴美

出版者

Japanese Society for Engineering Education

雑誌

工学教育 (ISSN:13412167)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.59, no.4, pp.4_66-4_71, 2011 (Released:2011-08-01)

参考文献数

16

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Extensive reading (ER) is proved to be an effective approach for Japanese engineering students to improve fluency in English. But it is only effective in limited conditions, and the condition in English as a foreign language (EFL) settings is widely different from English as the second language (ESL) settings, where former ER programs are conducted. This article focuses on the critical factors that separate successful ER programs in EFL settings from failure, based on the authors’ experiences of conducting a 5-year-long ER program. In a long-term sustained silent reading (SSR) program that guides students to start reading from simple stories (SSS) , reluctant EFL learners have the maximum opportunity to improve their English fluency to the required level for novice engineers.