December 2, 2015: Sapphire, Chicken, Nobita, Rocky and Penelope, Preparing for the Thesis Presentations

Crazy Chicken Outline

Title: Effective English teaching instruction for elementary school students based on a focus on form perspective

Outline

1. Introduction
   1. Statement of purpose: What is the topic (Focus on form in ES). Why are you doing this research?(なんのために、どうして興味がある？どのように英語教育に貢献？)
   2. Literature Review　(Discuss what other people have discovered about your topic)
      1. Focus on Form
         1. Definition
         2. What kinds of FonF are there?
         3. Is it beneficial/ not beneficial?
      2. Elementary School English education
         1. Current state of Elementary school English education
            1. Achievements and issues
         2. Why FonF in elementary school? What are the expected results
      3. Research of Focus on Form Instruction in Japan/ teaching Japanese elementary school kids
      4. Research Questions: 
         1. What focus on form techniques can be seen in teacher talk?
         2. What is the relationship between FonF techniques and student interactions.
2. Method: (How do you answer the research questions)
   1. Participants: Profiles of the teachers and students
   2. Data collection
      1. What kind of data: recordings of teaching and student interaction, lesson plans, worksheets
      2. How did you collect it?
      3. When did you collect it?
   3. Data analysis
      1. Transcribe teacher talk and interaction
         1. How do you choose what to transcribe?
      2. Identify focus on form technique in teacher talk
      3. Compare phrases said by teacher to phrases used by students
      4. Describe how the activity was done
      5. Consider how the way the activity was done and Focus On Form technique influenced student talk
3. Results
   1. How to display the data (tables? transcripts?)
   2. Show your findings
4. Discussion
   1. Discuss the significance of your results
5. Conclusion
   1. Summarize the paper and talk about the implications of the results for teaching English to children in Japan
   2. Limitations: Discuss problems with the study
   3. Future directions: discuss how this topic should be researched further
6. References

 Nobita Outline

Title: What kind of skills are targeted in TOIEC and the Iwate teachers’ test.

Introduction

1. Statement of purpose: What is the topic (TOEIC vs. Iwate teacher’s test). Why are you doing this research?(なんのために、どうして興味がある？どのように英語教育に貢献？) Many companies use TOIEC as criteria for employing people. I am interested in comparing the English criteria which Iwate prefecture uses employing teachers with TOIEC. Many prefectures use TOIEC but Iwate does not. Why? How is the Iwate test different from TOIEC?
2. Literature Review　(Discuss what other people have discovered about your topic, give background about your topic.)
   1. Background on the TOEIC test
      1. When did it start?
      2. What is the purpose of it?
      3. What does it measure/ what kinds of questions does it have?
      4. How is the test used/ who uses it?
      5. What are some issues with the test.
   2. English teacher employment
      1. What kind of skills do English teachers need?
      2. What tests do teachers take to be employed?
      3. What kinds of qualification should teachers have?
      4. What are some issues with English teacher employment.
   3. Overview of English skills and how they are evaluated
      1. Micro/macro skills
      2. CEFR, CEFR-J
   4. Research questions
      1. What kind of skills are measured in each test?
3. Method
   1. Data Collection
      1. Tests, from what year?
      2. How many?
   2. Data Analysis
      1. Which parts of the test will you analyze, why?
      2. How will you analyze a section. Will you use a rubric?
4. Results
   1. Comparison of two tests
5. Discussion
   1. What implications do your results have for evaluating teachers for employment?
6. Conclusion
   1. Summarize the paper and talk about the implications of the results for English testing in Japan.
   2. Limitations: Discuss problems with the study
   3. Future directions: discuss how this topic should be researched further
7. References