June 13: Looking at Sae’s data

Organization

Literature review

1) Phoneme and phonological awareness and its role in learning to read, write, speak, and listen to English.

2) The goals of English education in Japan and issues in teaching reading and writing

3) Research questions:

1. To what extent can word writing instruction assist students in developing their phoneme awareness?
2. To what extent can students develop their phonological awareness in elementary school English classes?

Methodology

• Participants
• Data collection (Procedures followed, types of data collected)
  • Lesson plans
  • Pre- test
    • Attitude
    • Phoneme awareness
  • Post test
    • Phoneme awareness
  • Student reflection
  • Student work
  • Teacher observation
  • Video of student talk
• Analysis (How the data was analyzed)
  • How will you analyze the data?
    • One idea: To see how each student change and then generalize about the main tendencies you saw in the way students changed or did not change.
      • Student A: pre-test → reflection comments → post test = change?
      • Student B: pre-test → reflection comments → post test = change ?
      • Student C: pre-test → reflection comments → post test = change?
• Findings
• Discussion
• Conclusion

(Notes on procedures taken, class content, test results)

June: Goal = to understand sounds (phoneme awareness)

October: Goal = write words while understanding the sounds

Period 1

• Say the months

Period 2

• Say the months and one’s birthday.

Period 3

• Ask, “When is your birthday” in a circle.

Period 4

• Take a memo of friends’ birthdays.

Post test:

• 24: 2 questions
• 8: first question
• 4: o questions

One student