著者

Zion Mark N.

出版者

多摩大学グローバルスタディーズ学部

雑誌

紀要 = Bulletin (ISSN:18838480)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.4, pp.163-173, 2012-03-01

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The study of motivation in the field of second language acquisition, now in its sixth decade, has focused on distinctions between two types of motivation: xtrinsic and intrinsic. This has become a fixed star in the English education osmos, as accepted as any other ongstanding theory. Without minimizing the labor of so many who shaped the direction of this research, I believe it is important to step away from this body of literature and consider its relevance, since research on motivation seems to have been accepted incritically. Since it is largely "unquantifiable," teachers are left with either belief or disbelief, and this, I feel, is counterproductive and may in fact add stresses to both teachers and English education programs. Here, I will briefly consider the conclusions from some studies on motivation.

著者

杉浦 悦子

出版者

多摩大学グローバルスタディーズ学部

雑誌

紀要 = Bulletin (ISSN:18838480)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.1, pp.139-152, 2009-03-01

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In Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, books play an important role. The patient's copy of Herodotus's Histories, which is twice as its original thickness with cuttings from other books glued into the text and his own writings in its margins, suggests a contrapuntal reading, to use Edward Said's terminology. Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim is read by the two protagonists in the novel, and another character, Kirpal Singh, a young Sikh with the Royal Engineers, was created as a counterpart to Kim. The narrative of Kim echoes in that of Kip and invites readers to focus on the issue of identity and to reread Kim in a new perspective. The peaceful life of the four expatriates in a near ruin in Florence, which Ondaatje calls an Eden, is destroyed by the news of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For Kip it symbolizes an undeniable striation which divides the world between East and West. It triggered him to question his identity as a sapper of Royal Army. By creating a counterpart to Kipling's Kim, Ondaatje succeeded in enhancing the issue of identity in the striated world, against which the patient fights all through his life.

著者

Ishizaki Sharon

出版者

多摩大学グローバルスタディーズ学部グローバルスタディーズ学科

雑誌

紀要 (ISSN:18838480)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.7, pp.43-49, 2015-03

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The developing topic of NeuroELT (Neuroscience and English Language Teaching) is an area of research that has the possibility to inform ELT practitioners with an exciting pedagogy, which could further enhance their teaching repertoire. Most instructors may attempt to provide learning environments that include aspects of the teaching and learning construct they felt were lacking when they were students, and NeuroELT may be able to provide those missing elements. In this discussion, I have attempted to explain how the choices teachers and students are presented with can affect learning environments and outcomes; I have endeavoured to demonstrate that when tasks or classroom material have meaning and make sense to the learners, then long-term storage of information has a higher probability of taking place, and how emotions can adversely affect the storage of data.NeuroELT(神経科学と英語教授法)という開発中のトピックは、英語教育の実践家たちに心躍る教授法を知らせることができる可能性のあるリサーチ分野であり、教授法のレパートリーを更に広めるかもしれない。多くの講師たちは、自分たちが学生だった時に欠けていると感じた部分を指導と学習の構造に組み入れた学習環境を提供しようと努めるであろう。NeuroELT は、それらの欠けている要素を提供することができるかもしれない。本稿では、教師や学生が提示される選択がどのように学習環境や目標の達成状況を示す結果に影響するかということを説明しようと試みた。つまり、タスクもしくは学級教材がその学習者にとって意味があり、理解できれば、情報の長期保存がより高い可能性で起こるということ、また、どのように感情がデータの貯蓄に悪影響を及ぼすかということを論証することを試みた。

著者

小松加代子

出版者

多摩大学グローバルスタディーズ学部グローバルスタディーズ学科

雑誌

紀要 (ISSN:18838480)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, pp.61-74, 2014-03

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宗教とソーシャル・キャピタル論の研究は、地域社会での人々のつながりが脆弱になってきた現代社会において、人々の絆を再建するための宗教の役割を考察するものとなっている。しかしながら、ソーシャル・キャピタル論には、社会的関係の中にも権力関係が存在し、弱者が強者と同じ利益を得るわけではないという点が見逃されているとジェンダー研究者から指摘をされている。本論文は、ソーシャル・キャピタル論と宗教の議論について、その方法論にある問題を指摘し、ジェンダーの視点から宗教的活動とは何かを見直す機会としたい。A recent theme being discussed in Japan is religion's place in society and its role in fostering social capital. The role of religion and its contribution in building up a strong social network is being examined. However, these debates do not discuss the power structure and minority groups within society. This paper aims to point out the problems the debates on social capital involve and suggest what religious activities mean from the perspective of gender.