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 (6:13). The first, second, and third time are at normal speed. After each time they answer multiple-choice comprehension questions about the listening.
Momotaro
Can Typoglecimia be used to evaluate students’ understanding of vocabulary?
Method
Students do a test and guess the meaning of typos.
Students have a word test with the real spelling of the words.
Participants
ETM students, recruit on
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 （Link)
英語の授業でトランスランゲージングを使用することについてどう思いますか* 良い・悪い？
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?