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This study examined the distribution of skills in the language activities in junior high school English textbooks to consider how integrated these textbooks are with elementary school English. It focused on the previous and current Grade 1 New Horizon and Sunshine textbooks. It concluded that while elementary school textbooks had task-like speaking activities, the JHS textbook had proportionally fewer of such activities. To better connect elementary school and junior high school English, Hiroyuki argued that teachers will need to supplement the textbook with task-like activities.

Order of Speakers 1. Abe Miho 6. Sato Yuria 10. Miura Haruka 2. Shirakawa Miyu 7. Shimotori Harua 11. Chiba Shuho 3. Saito Mana 8. Goto Taro 12. Taya Otoka 4. Aoki Taisei 9. Saito Anzu 13. Horie Tsubasa 5. Okamoto Yuta     Highlights Titles and summaries Note: The summaries were written by Hiroki Oda, Yura Kuroki, Kai Kato and Hiroyuki Nezawa and edited by James Hall Abe Miho“A Study of Japanese Work, Yodaka no Hoshi: A Comparative Analysis of the JapaneseOriginal and English Translation” Her goal was to compare the Japanese and English versions of Yodaka no Hoshi and find the differences. It turned out that a direct

A Study of the Effective Use of Loan Words in Elementary School English Education (Kano A) In Kano’s research, she researched the vocabulary in the elementary school textbook and compared the loan words and English. The English textbook in elementary school has a lot of words that children are familiar with. She suggests using loan words in English classes in elementary school will be helpful for English learning in elementary school. A Study of Onomatopoeia in Miyazawa Kenji’s Works (Tomoki A) He researched how Onomatopoeia words in Miyazawa Keniji’s works were translated. Almost all onomatopoeia words were translated based on their meaning. The onomatopoeia that is made by Kenji are