著者

山西 博之 田中 博晃

出版者

外国語教育メディア学会

雑誌

Language Education & Technology (ISSN:04587332)

巻号頁・発行日

no.40, pp.161-173, 2003-07

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The main purpose of this paper is to make suggestions concerning combination of quantitative and qualitative research in order to utilize the advantages of both types of research. Although there are many kinds of studies that combine quantitative and qualitative methodologies, it seems that few of them can be called "publicized" because of the absence of discussion concerning the method of qualitative research in particular. Showing our possible combined research design like a "catalogue", we would like to give rise to implications for future research. Our suggestion as a catalogue can be called a "hypothesis-succeeding" study (Saijo, 2002) using the KJ method (Kawakita, 1967):

著者

田中 博晃 山西 博之

出版者

外国語教育メディア学会

雑誌

Language Education & Technology (ISSN:04587332)

巻号頁・発行日

no.41, pp.77-88, 2004-06

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The main purpose of this paper was to consider the problem concerning the dfficulties that most researchers of the qualitative studies are confronted with. From an overview of recently conducted studies in the academic field of English language education in Japan, it appeared that most researches using qualitative verbal data were categorized into hypothesis examination or hypothesis generation studies. Nevertheless, few of the hypothesis generation studies were able to help the researchers overcome the difficulties of objectivity and generalizability in treating the data. This suggested that most of the researchers did not give a sufficient amount of consideration to the transfer of their knowledge to future studies. To overcome the difficulties, we proposed to add a new approach, the hypothesis succeeding approach, to the traditionally used hypothesis generation approach. The hypothesis succeeding approach is conducted by a combination of hypothesis generation and hypothesis testing. The former is for interpreting verbal data qualitatively and the latter is for complementing the generated hypothesis. We have shown the extent of the effectiveness of this approach in overcoming the difficulties.

著者

田中 博晃 山西 博之

出版者

日本教科教育学会

雑誌

日本教科教育学会誌 (ISSN:02880334)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, no.4, pp.39-48, 2004-03-30

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英語学習動機に関する研究は膨大だが,いまだ英語学習動機がどのようなものか十分に捉えきれていない。特に英語学習動機の全体像は見えても,(1)それが織りなす複雑なダイナミズムが今ひとつ明確ではなく,また(2)研究の成果が現実の教育現場と乖離してしまっている。そこで本論では,ある中学校1年生の少女の「語り」から,ある授業活動における学習者の動機づけだけではなく,家庭環境や学校外での学習なども内包したありのままの姿の動機づけを,生々しい形でリアルに描きだす試みを行なうことを目的とする。その結果,(1)教師に誉めてもらいたいのに,それを妨げる学級の雰囲気から生じる,満たされない欲求,(2)授業レベルは簡単すぎて面白くないが,その一方で良い成績を収めることよって得られる教師からのフィードバックを失いたくないという葛藤,(3)英語学習の社会的必要性を認識している一方,個人的な学習理由が見出せない矛盾,という英語学習動機の実態を浮き彫りにした。

著者

田中 博晃

出版者

大学英語教育学会

雑誌

大学英語教育学会紀要 (ISSN:02858673)

巻号頁・発行日

no.50, pp.63-80, 2010

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The current study aims to enhance students' intrinsic motivation in different achievement levels (TOEIC 420 level, 550 level, and 690 level). In more detail, the purposes of this study are as follows: (1) to enhance intrinsic motivation to listening activity of three groups; (2) to enhance intrinsic motivation to speaking activity of three groups; (3) to enhance intrinsic classroom motivation of three groups. This study further explores facilitating factors of intrinsic motivation. Thus, this article also aims (4) to examine which psychological need (the need for autonomy, competence or relatedness) plays the most significant role in students' motivational development. 138 university students who were enrolled in a first-year English language course participated in this study. The intervention was given to them for fifteen weeks. The questionnaires were administered three times (at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the intervention). The data were collected in both qualitative and quantitative way and the results were discussed with educational implications.

著者

田中 博晃 前田 啓朗

出版者

日本言語テスト学会

雑誌

日本言語テスト学会研究紀要

巻号頁・発行日

no.6, pp.128-139, 2004-08-30

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The purpose of this study was to examine the construct of amotivation. When amotivation is measured, negative items in a questionnaire cause attenuation of correlation, and as a result, it would give bias to the construct of amotivation. A questionnaire was made on the basis on Noels, Pelletier, Clement, and Vallerand (2000), and it included both positive items (P-type) and negative items of amotivation (N-type). By analyzing the data from the questionnaire using Confirmatory Factor Analysis to correct attenuation, we examined a systematic error caused by negative items. The result showed that (1) an artificial factor was identified when positive and negative items of amotivation were analyzed by Exploratory Factor Analysis; (2) the construct of amotivation was supported when 7-factor model of motivation was examined by conducting Confirmatory Factor Analysis to P-type questionnaire; and (3) P-type questionnaire was more appropriate than N-type questionnaire as a measure of amotivation, because bipolarity between amotivation and self-determined forms of motivation was clearly identified in P-type questionnaire.