大学生の英語学習に関する意識調査
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This paper reports the results of a questionnaire survey on attitudes to English language and the evaluation of the new general English education curriculum among lst/2nd year students in Hiroshima University. Hiroshima University reformed the general English education curriculum this year. The main points of the reform are the introduction of skillcentered classes, small-sized classes, classes according to student proficiency, and students' free choice of classes. More than half a year has passed since the introduction. We have therefore to evaluate the reformed curriculum in order to improve it further. The aim of this survey is to clarify what kind of effect can be observed by comparing 1st year students (under the reformed curriculum) and 2nd year students (under the pre-reformed curriculum). The subjects of the study were 471 1st year students and 478 2nd year students, including students of all faculties. They were asked to complete a questionnaire using a Likert-scale on global attitudes to English, evaluating their classes and their needs for general English education. The collected data was analyzed with STAT VIEW ver. 4.5 and MS EXCEL 97. The results of this survey are as follows. Almost all the students are aware of the importance of English as an international language and have a positive attitude toward English language. Most of them have a strong intention of acquiring communicative skills so that they will be able to handle English for their career. Their motivation toward English language learning is also very high. About 60% of the students have a wish to study English even outside school. On the contrary, they have rather low evaluation of their classes because they do not satisfy their needs. In addition, more than 70% desire a free choice of teacher. This implies a lack of satisfaction with their teachers. As for content, they would like a class aiming at developing communicative abilities or inter-cultural understanding. With regard to timetabling, they want a 60-minute class twice a week until 2nd year. But about a quater want to continue studying English until 4th year. The overall evaluation of the curriculum is as follows. Generally speaking, it matches the needs of the students so it can be said to be successful. The introduction of skill-centered classes is evaluated highly. About half of the 2nd year students prefer them to the integrated classes they took last year. Small-sized classes are also successful. Only 30% want a class which contains more than 40. Small-sized classes have been introduced only in writing and speaking. They should also be introduced in the other skills. But unfortunately we cannot as yet make an evaluation of other points from this research. Since it is our duty to offer effective classes to the students, the curriculum should be subject to further and constant evaluation.
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- 1998-03-31