小学校教員対象の英語発音ワークショップの効果 : 質問紙および録画映像の分析

Although it has been decided that, from the year 2020 on, English will be taught as a subject at all the primary schools in Japan, many primary teachers lack necessary skills as well as confidence to teach the language. One thing that they are particularly worried about is their own pronunciation abilities. Therefore, it is of immediate and profound importance to improve current primary school teachers’ phonetic skills, but to what extent is it possible to change adults’ EFL pronunciation habits? To answer that question, two 90-minute workshops were given to two groups of primary school teachers, in which they were taught, using the guru-guru (round-and-round) one-on-one feedback method, how to articulate six consonants known to present the largest difficulties to Japanese EFL speakers. Each participant’s performance and reactions during the guru-guru activity were video-recorded. Their perceptions about their own skills were surveyed and their oral readings of eight target sentences were video-recorded at the beginning and at the end of the workshops. Analyses of the pre- and post-workshop data revealed that both their self-perceived and actual pronunciation skills had substantially improved through the 90-minute training sessions, indicating that improving the current primary school teachers’ phonetic skills will be possible if similar training sessions are given.

語学教育研究論叢

AN10065440

09118128

36

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2019-03-01

日本語

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