Okachan
Literature review
Writing, scaffolding
Research Question
What effect does scaffolding have on writing in students’ retelling activities?
Method
Participants
Two groups of 2nd year students：One group had hints (一組）and another had no hints （二組）
Data
- Student writing from three retelling activities = worksheets
- Video of the class
- Powerpoint materials for scaffolding
Analysis
- Measure how much students’ writing increased by word count
- Measure how many new expressions students used: identify the new expressions in the writing
Haruka
The Effectiveness of Using and Shooting Videos in the Classroom for students’ speaking skills
Class Topic: Recycling and relative pronouns
My-reportMomotaro
Can Typoglecimia be used to evaluate students’ understanding of vocabulary?
Method
Students read a text with typos and need to guess the meaning of those typos.
Students have a word test with the real spelling of the words.
Participants
ETM students, recruit on
November 8th, make test by 11/6
Mana (Make questionnaire by the 6th)
Method
Data
New Textbook: Let’s watch and think; Let’s play; Let’s listen; Let’s try; Activity; Listen and read; Let’s write; Around the World; Storytime
Old textbook: Let’s watch and think; Let’s play; Let’s listen; Let’s try; Activity; Listen and read; Let’s write; Let’s chant, Let’s sing, Project, チャレンジ
Participants
5th and 6th grade
Arnold
English Communicative Language Teaching in Japan
Case study of implementation at elementary school
RQ1: How is CLT implemented in elementary schools?
Method: Interview with the teacher about how she implements the course of study
RQ2: What are the students’ experiences of current English CLT?
Observation: Has prepared a form;
Questionnaire: Prepare a questionnaire sheet of about 5 questions
- 5 questions: 1 – 5 (Never to always) or (I strongly agree ⇨ I strongly disagree)
- How confident do you feel speaking English in class ⇨ I am confident speaking English in class (Strongly agree/agree/disagree/ strongly disagree)
- How comfortable are you talking to your classmates in English during activities?
- Do you enjoy participating in speaking activities?/ Do you enjoy English communication activities?
- Do you think it is important to learn to listen to and to speak English?