短編映画制作によるプロジェクト型英語学習 ―四技能の教育法の可能性として―

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This paper presents the results of a study that examined whether or not short film creation can be set as the project for a project based foreign language learning class in a Japanese university to improve all four of the English skills of the participants. In this study, a textbook that teaches students academic English words as well as the basics of film-making was used to provide students with reading practice, in class meetings and acting in and editing films provided students with listening and speaking practice, and script-writing and meeting minute recording provided them with writing practice. Students' communicative and teamwork abilities were measured using the TEAM Q metric, and their impressions of improvement were evaluated with a post-class survey. The results indicate that students felt their communicative, teamwork, speaking and listening abilities, and knowledge of academic words greatly improved and that their reading and writing abilities only improved somewhat. Students might have felt less strongly about their reading ability improving because many had very high TOEFL scores (550+), and the textbook level might have been too low for them. Overall, the project was successful in improving students' English, though it could be improved by adding more writing assignments.

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