An Action Research on Collaborative Curriculum Development of English Lessons in Elementary and Junior High Schools

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(1)AnActionResearch on Co11aborative Cu㎡cu1um Development ofEng1ish Lessons m Element町㎝d Jumor Hlgh Schoo1s. 教科・領域教育学専攻英語コース. M07150D 堂本佳樹. The puTPose of this research is to explore. high schoo−would be more or less problematic．. “renkei” on Eng1ish 1anguage education belween. Besides I had hopedthat ifthe co㎜㏄tion ofEnglish. elemen眈y school mdjunior hiψschools．. education b舳e㎝element岬schools md a j㎜ior. The new course of study has been. high school worked out weu，Students’English. implemented since 2000 md it has embled. leanliIIg in a junior high school could ef日。iently be. 61ementary schooIs to conduct Eng−ish activity such. developed．. as co−lversation in GenelIa1 St凹dies， as par6 of. Approximately two types of“r6mkei”in the. Intematioml Education，Sin㏄Eng1ish activity is mt. preceding studies have been practiced．0ne is. compulsory， however， its cuπiculum， teaching. “continuity of students’1earning” and the other is. materia1s，the number of lessons or ins血1ctors varies. “stud6nts’and／or tcach6rs’interaction”一In th6type of. according to schoo1s，a皿d va一．ious activities have been. continuity of students’1eaming Hida（2007）shows us. practiced． Therefbre， students’ Eng1ish learning. a good p1−actice．Being a junior high schoo1Eng1ish. experieme begins to show the varieties ㎜d it. teacher as well as a皿element町y schoo1Eng1ish. gradua11y a冊㏄ts E㎎lish language16ss㎝s in j㎜ior. teacher，she血nctiom11y mmges co㎜unication. high schools．Thus，it is important for elementary and. competence m lmgulstlcs，and reported that they were. j㎜ior hi出schools to make a com㏄ti㎝be舳e㎝. able to create a coherent c㎜Iriculum be−ween the帥0. them or do“rehkei”、. 1evels of schools．In the type of st皿dents’書㎜d ／or. ln Sanda c卯where I work as a j㎜ior high. teachers lntelIactlon，丁乞kahash1（2007）reported a case. school English teacher，six y6ars have passed since. where a group ofj㎜ior high school students visited. the Board of Education o冊。ia11y in血。duced English. e1ement町y school classes…㎜d㎞teracted with them. Activity to elementary schools，but its practices vary. ㎝d stated that this practice was success∼1because. accord㎞g to elementaワschoo1s．. the j㎜ior h妙school E㎎lish teachers positively. The author，aj㎜iorhigh schoo1E㎎lishtGacher，. imvolved in the exchange program，trying to make a. had a simpIe p口zzlement that if English educotion. co㎜ecti㎝of E㎎1ish1anguage education between. wies a㏄ordi㎎to elem㎝t岬schools in㎝e j㎜ior. the e1emen眈y schoo1…md thejunior high schools．. high school distIIict，English imt1．uction in the junior. These two cases above，however，do not. 一322一.

(2) describe the teachers’be1iefs，which could be a basis. Chapter3reports“the joint teacher meeting”. of曲eir practice．Likewise as a junior high school. a皿d the teachers’ be1iefs on 1≡…I1glish −anguage. Englishteacher，Icouldimag㎞ethatthesepractices. teaching−. would be a veリhard work for the teachers．I was. Chapter 4 introduces a case study by. assured that thGre must be strong teachers’beliefs. presenting the activity which was proposed㎞the. which drove them into practices in ord6r to make a. meeting mentioned in Chapter3，which was for the7血. Su㏄eSS阯C0㎜㏄tiOn．. gmders who experienced Eng1ish Activi収at the. 1would like to a1．9ue he1’e that i皿。l−der to. elemellt町schools to make a video clip of the. make asu㏄6ss何andcoher㎝tcomecti㎝ofE㎎lish. introduction of the club activities at Junior High. l㎝gmge education b6twcen element岬and junior. SchoolA．. high schools teachers who are involved need to sh町e. Chapter5concludes this study by advocat㎞g the. their belie危 about English education in additiom to. ホameworkわr developing a collaborative curriculum. these帥。 e1ements mentioned above．Gmves（2000）. of E㎎lish less㎝s in one jmior high school district. argues that de価口㎞g teac11ers’beliefs becomes the. based on the series of the collaborative Eng1ish. basis i皿 the language course d6sign．IIl this sense. lessons．The丘amework which will be advocated is. shaI1ng teache㎎’ be11e危 become lmportmt m. 曲e metaphor of“CoHaborative Gear”．ThF“renkei”. promoting the connection of English education．I. consists of b〃。 gea1’s；one for the junioI’high schools. believe that com㏄ting teachers’beliefs wm become. and the other胞r the elementary schools．Each gear. the foundation ofthe connection of English education. stallds fblI the process of developing a unit of English. be帥e㎝elementary㎝d j㎜ior high schools．So In. less011s with the制1owing危ur stages circulating. this paper，thg concept of“renkei’’㎝d its implication. aro㎜d the gear；“sharing beliefs and denni㎎the. to the e1em㎝t町mdj㎜ior high schoo1r61ati㎝ship. c㎝texts”，“fomu1ati㎎goa1s”，“pmctice’’，and. wm be discussed，md the process in which“renkei”. “ref■ection”． If the teachers at both schools are. becomes couaborative curriculum d6velopment. activeIy and collaborativeIy engaged in the. beね〃een p1’i1＝nary aI1d secondary leve1 of1ミmguage. c㎜㎡culum deve1opment，they begiI1to generate. teaching wiu be repol’ted．. dymmism，which is the power to drive forth. The preseIlt paper consists of 5 chapters．. “renkei”一 If both gears alIe adequate1y engaged，then. Chapter2introduces two pmctices in which my. “re11kei”for the English lessons to work e脆。tive1y. colleague，the Assis晩nH｛mguage teachers（ALTs）at. ㏄c山and E㎎lish language teaching will o㏄ur more. Jmior High School A㎜d I gave the E㎎1ish lessons. e価ective1yduetotheco㎜ongoalssh鵬d㎜dthe. md had interaction with the students．It a1so. lessons p1mned tow趾d reaching these goa1s．. intl・oduces the u1＝terances of b〃。 teachers；one is given. 主任指導教員吉田達弘. by an elementary schoo−teacher and the othe−I is by a. 指導教員吉田達弘. junior high school Eng1ish teacher一. 一323一.

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