Tablet-based English Listening practice with longer listening materials
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When teachers introduce listening and speaking activities in school education, they are no choice but use relatively short materials due to short class-time length. But the ordinary length of lectures or talk shows is more than 20 to 30 minutes.It implies that in real world, people are required to have the ablitiy to listen to longer English materials. In this paper, we examine the speech items which Japanese students are hard to acquire, and countermeasures such as shadowing, repeating, rapid reading where the text of contents are shown word by word, slash-listening. We have conducted an experiment that four subjects did a suggested listening activity. We have confirmed the effect of this activity with the interview and the recording of the subjects. Keyword English listening,Tablet,shadowing, repeating, slash listening, rapid reading 1. はじめに 国境を超えて活躍できるグローバル人材の育成が 言われて久しい.日本人は英語そのものが苦手という 訳ではなく,文法能力はあり,短い文章を解析的に読 むことには慣れているし,情報を読み取るような読解 は得意である.一方で,実際に誰かとコミュニケーシ ョンをしたり,何かを説明したりするのは得意でなく, 英 語 ス ピ ー キ ン グ 能 力 が 低 い と 言 わ れ て 久 し い (Georgiou,2009).政府は英語学習者の「コミュニケ ーション能力」の開発に力を入れ様々な施策を実施し てきたが,目に見える成果はあまり多くは見られない. 筆者らは英語スピーキング能力を伸ばすような授 業について様々に検討し,授業実践を行っており(坪 田他 2011,坪田他 2012),スピーキング試験での点数 向上も確認している.コミュニケーションというのは 双方向のものであり,スピーキング能力が必要なのは 言うまでもないが,相手の言うことを聞き取るリスニ ング能力も重要である.本稿では特にリスニングにつ いて検討する.リスニングと一口に言っても,店や友 人との会話や,講義で録音音声を聴いたり,日本人教 師の英語を聴いたり,ペアワークでクラスメートの英 語を聴いたりするのもすべてリスニングである.ここ で は , 音 声 を 一 方 的 に 教 室 で 聴 く , ’transactional discourse’ (Rost, 1990)を対象とする. リスニングはリーディングと異なり,話し言葉を扱 うため,幾つかの特徴がある.Osada(2014)では,主な 音声言語の特徴を,(a)音声形式であること, (b)時系 列順に実時間で起こり,振り返る機会がない,(c)書き
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