Seminar 1: 9/17 Creating a schedule and setting goals
Seminar 2: 10/23 Show instruments (Amanda, Daizu, Momotaro)
- Momotaro presents an idea for his trial
- Amanda shows her questionnaire; work on ethics committee application
- Daizu presents an idea for her trial
10/28 – 11/8: Amanda conducts questionnaires
Seminar 3: 11/6 Show instruments (Tsubasa & Okachan)
- Tsubasa: Show the questionnaire on Google Forms. Afterward, email teachers.
11/7 – 11/26 Momotaro trials
Seminar 4: 11/11 4:50 PM Progress Reports
Seminar 5: 11/27 Day to show data (Meet early at 14:55)
- Tsubasa: Show data
- Momotaro: show data
- Amanda: show data
- Anzu: Show data
Seminar 6: 12/4 中間発表
Semina 7: 12/11: Work on Rough Drafts
Seminar 8: 12/18 (To Taro Village) Everyone: Show first drafts of your paper
Late December – Early January: Thesis support with Akasaka Sensei
1/20 (Hand in undergraduate thesis)
Research Questions & Methodology
Tsubasa
-Research questions
- RQ1. What percentage of junior high school English teachers use Japanese in each grade?
- RQ2. How do English teachers think about incorporating Translanguaging into their classes?
- RQ3. Is there a relationship between the percentage of teachers and students using Japanese in class and their willingness to incorporate Translanguaging?
Methodology
Questionnaire
Momotaro
Research Questions
Can reading ability (comprehension) be measured by a typogricemia task?
Method
Trial and then questionnaire about the trial
In the trial, the test-taker reads text with jumbled words. Afterward, they do a reading activity. After he gives the text one more time with jumbled words. He wants to check the change.
Amanda
Research Questions
- What kind of language activities from the textbook do elementary school students like?
- What are the characteristics of the activities that make students like English?
Method
Questionnaire to elementary school students (5th and 6th grade) and junior high school first-grade students.
Anzu
Research Questions
- Does student listening comprehension on TED talks improve by repeating the listening track multiple times?
Method
Subjects listen to a TED talk three times. The first time is at normal speed. The second time is at a slower speed. the third time is at a normal speed. After each time they answer multiple-choice comprehension questions about the listening.
OR
Subjects listen to two TED Talks in two different ways
Method 1: Normal speed, normal speed, normal speed
Method 2: Normal speed, slow speed
After the test, Anzu interviews students