著者
倉橋 洋子
出版者
一般社団法人大学英語教育学会
雑誌
JACET中部支部紀要 (ISSN:18815375)
巻号頁・発行日
no.5, pp.29-38, 2007

According to the concept of World Englishes, Japanese English has been admitted as one of the English varieties. However, it seems that Japanese people in general still do not have enough confidence in their English to determine by themselves whether the English is correct or not. Kachuru asks who is "the judge for determining intelligibility in various varieties of English -the users of the varieties themselves, or the idealized native speakers" (1992, p.65). It is important who judges Japanese English. The purpose of this paper is to find whether the intelligibility of Japanese English depends on who judges it or not, and what is the criterion of judging it. For this purpose, various English speakers judged the intelligibility of erroneous English written by Japanese university students. The result was that Japanese were stricter than other English speakers regarding grammatically incorrect Japanese English.
著者
柴崎 行雄
出版者
一般社団法人大学英語教育学会
雑誌
Annual Review of English Learning and Teaching (ISSN:13433105)
巻号頁・発行日
no.17, pp.39-47, 2012-11-30

The purpose of this study is to report some latest trends in teaching English to children in Korea in order to find their implications to the discussion about Japan's education system. Firstly, it reviews the Korean strategy of "segyehwa", which is a Korean word for "globalization" but with more government-initiated policy connotations. As part of this "segyehwa", in 1997, the government introduced its 7th National Common Basic Curriculum, which has been promoting foreign language education ever since. Secondly, the current study summarizes some social problems associated with education expenses, young children's studying abroad, currency outflow, among others. Finally, the study reports "Jeju Global Education City (JGEC)" as a Korean solution to these problems. The Korean government has invited big-name international schools that provide high quality education in Jeju Island, the southern-most island in Korea. Established first in 2011 was North London Collegiate School Jeju, where 437 students, including a Japanese female child from Japan, started to study.
著者
BURROWS Christian
出版者
一般社団法人大学英語教育学会
雑誌
大学英語教育学会中国・四国支部研究紀要 (ISSN:13490265)
巻号頁・発行日
no.10, pp.29-39, 2013-03-31

本研究は、日本のEFL学習者に対する、長期間にわたるコミュニケーション方略の教授が、英会話能力の向上に与える効果を明らかにするものである。これは、Nakataniによって行われた研究(2005年)を再現する過程、日本人学習者が言語の障壁を克服するために、言語学上、又は、問題解決能力を身につけることを目指している。その結論は、コミュニケーション方略使用の有効性を最大限にするために、際立った社会的文化的要因がもたらす影響を考慮する必要性を明確に示している。
著者
Thomson Haidee
出版者
一般社団法人大学英語教育学会
雑誌
Research bulletin of English teaching (ISSN:1880716X)
巻号頁・発行日
no.10, pp.27-45, 2013-02-22

This paper follows the creation of the vocabulary component of a communication English course in a university in Japan, showing how Nation's (2000) course design process model and four strands framework (Nation, 2001) can be utilised to structure and evaluate a language course for effective vocabulary learning. Following the model, a needs analysis is conducted, making use of vocabulary size and level tests (Laufer & Nation, 1999; Nation & Beglar, 2007) to identify learner vocabulary knowledge and goals. Based on the principle that the more time you spend on a skill the better you will become at that skill, the four strands framework helps identify the various learning conditions and balance them across the curriculum. The four strands or learning conditions are: meaning focused input (MFI), meaning focused output (MFO), language focused learning (LFL) and fluency development (F). The planning process described in this paper can be used as an example or a starting point for those who want to design structured, balanced and goal-focused communicative language courses.
著者
上村 俊彦 沼田 剛史
出版者
一般社団法人大学英語教育学会
雑誌
JACET全国大会要綱
巻号頁・発行日
vol.46, pp.164-165, 2007-09-01

学生の英語習熟度チェックや英語学習の数値目標として、多くの大学や短大でさまざまな英語能力試験が実施されている。県立長崎シーボルト大学では、2000年から国際英検ジーテルプ(以下、G-TELP)を年1回、2003年からTOEIC公開試験を年2回、TOEIC IP試験を年3回の割合で継続的に実施している。本発表では、国際英検ジーテルプ日本事務局によるG-TELP試験問題の英文テキスト・データの解析結果の報告、県立長崎シーボルト大学のG-TELP試験の活用事例報告、学外英語能力試験導入による大学英語カリキュラムの活性化に関する成果と課題についての検討をおこなう。
著者
竹内 理
出版者
一般社団法人大学英語教育学会
雑誌
JACET中部支部紀要 (ISSN:18815375)
巻号頁・発行日
no.12, pp.13-22, 2014-12-20

This invited article is a revised version of a paper read at the symposium of the 30th Annual Conference of the JACET Chubu Chapter. In this article, the author makes an attempt to realize the 'commensurability' among different scopes and approaches in SLA research. He argues that four principles based on Saijo (2007, 2008), i.e., public/open nature, falsifiability, interest-correlativity, and structure-orientedness, are vital in devising a framework for achieving higher commensurability in research. He then applies the principles to the actual process of conducting SLA research and demonstrates how they work in it.