海外英語研修についての一考察 : 学生のコミュニケーション能力を高めるために

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Since the Department of International Liberal Arts was established in 1990, the college has sent applicants who wanted to study English on study tours abroad-four times to New Zealand and twice to the United States. The writer was a chaperone on two times: one to the U.S. and one to New Zealand. This is a probe into what hinders students from effectively studying English abroad in a short term situation and, consequently, into what would be the most effective curriculum and/or program to best help these students improve their communicative ability in English. The study combines the personal experience of the writer with an analysis of replies to a questionnaire given to language school teachers in New Zealand. Based on this analysis and comparing the New Zealand program to that of a previous study tour to the U.S., one is led to the conclusion that both 'skill-learning' (Littlewood, 1992), which takes place in the ordinary classrooms situation, and 'natural learning' (Littlewood, op. cit.), which is more associated with ESL and immigrants, is the essential key to the study tour. This combination of formal and informal learning is what helps to make the study tour unique. In order to take advantage of this uniqueness, a program which incorporates both of these learning aspects is needed in order to provide an ideal basis for developing students' communication skill in English.
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