- 著者
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木村 啓子
- 出版者
- 関東甲信越英語教育学会
- 雑誌
- 関東甲信越英語教育学会誌 (ISSN:21858993)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.26, pp.53-65, 2012-03-01 (Released:2017-07-14)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the changes of the writing proficiencies that occur in participants of a three-week overseas program making use of a STEP test and an essay writing. In order to observe the differences in their essays written before and after the program, not only T-units and Error-free T-units (EFTs) but also "Global-error-free T-units (GEFTs)" (Kimura, 2011) were utilized. The scores of writing section in STEP test significantly increased. Regarding the writing proficiency, their fluency considerably improved, but no progress was shown in accuracy. Aiming to find the affective factors that influenced such changes, a Willingness to Communicate (WTC) scale questionnaire was implemented. Results showed that the participants' WTC scores did not necessarily correlate to their language performances and that those who showed lower WTC scores before the program tended to demonstrate higher improvements in their scores. Another finding was that the significantly different two groups in WTC scores before the program became homogeneous ones after the program, probably because those of the lower group went up through their experiences they had in the overseas country.