中学生へのパラグラフ・ライティング指導の効果の検証

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This is a practical report on teaching paragraph writing to Japanese junior high school students. Teaching paragraph writing to junior high school students is not yet so widespread. This practical research was an attempt to teach paragraph writing to third-year students in a local junior high school. There were 32 participants and the treatment sessions consisted of 12 class meetings in which the structure of a paragraph, the use of transition words, how to generate ideas and how to write an outline were taught step by step. A pretest and a posttest were carried out and analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The quantitative analysis revealed that the participants increased the number of words, sentences and transition words; the qualitative analysis that included writing sample analysis and students' reflections revealed that the participants improved their ability to express their ideas more logically in the posttest and that they were more motivated to express their ideas in writing than before. Teaching paragraph writing to junior high school students, although not practiced very much yet, is appropriate and necessary considering Japan's recent educational slogan of promoting "thinking, judgment, and expressive abilities" which is emphasized in the new Course of Study.
関東甲信越英語教育学会の論文
2012-03-01