現在の英語カリキュラムと新入生の学習者ビリーフに基づく発展的提案

In order to provide students with good teaching, the curriculum needs to be reviewed and revised periodically. Even minor changes can be of benefit. To prepare a better curriculum for students, teachers should know students’ needs and wants. In this report, the present English curriculum at Okayama Prefectural University is described. The present curriculum aims to improve students’ four skills: listening, reading, speaking, and writing in addition to increasing vocabulary and grammar knowledge. Then, the results of a survey on 2018 first-year students’ beliefs regarding learning English are reported. Students’ beliefs include attitude toward English learning, motivation, anxiety, and expectation. Last, based on the results of the survey, the strengths and weaknesses of the present curriculum are discussed.平成30年度に実施された英語カリキュラムを説明し、平成30年度入学生の入学直後の学習者ビリーフ（学習への期待、意欲、不安など）を調査した。調査の結果、3つの学部から構成される岡山県立大学は、学部ごとに、学習者ビリーフが大きく異なることが明らかになった。語学教育推進室は、全学を対象とした統一英語カリキュラムを実施しているが、学部ごとに、学生のニーズに合わせた英語カリキュラムを工夫していく必要がある

Project Report: Development of an Effective Support System for a Foreign Language Proficiency Training Program (in Languages Other than English) for Students Studying Abroad

This article reports the results of a three-year education project (from 2015 to 2017) conducted by the Faculty of Foreign Language Studies of the Institute of Liberal Arts and Science. This project aimed developed an effective education system inside and outside of classes for students preparing to study abroad or continuing learning after coming back from studying abroad. According to the analysis of the investigation into the students’ actual learning requirements, we consider the further possibilities of learning support provided by teachers

一九四〇年代文学に見る「中国近代」の隘路

本研究は清末より大きなパラダイム変換を迫られ、学問や教養といった社会を支える「知」のあり方のみならず、結婚・恋愛に至るまで西欧の衝撃を受けた中国において、一九四〇年代には既にその「近代」の歩みそのものが行き詰まっていたことを個々の文学作品によって検証したものである。その結果、中国現代文学において、新と旧の二つの概念は二項対立的構造を成しておらず、特に文化の新しいありようが、必ずしも現代中国の文人・知識人たちのプラスの精神史へ収斂していかなったことを分析・指摘した。China has changed in several fields since the last years of the Qing. Especially serious are the changes in culture which include, for example, scholarships, concepts of romance, and forms of marriage. This study explores these cultural changes through analyzing some literary works in the 1940s. The results, contrary to the expectation, indicate that China had already confronted the dead-end in the road to true modernization in the 1940s.研究課題/領域番号:19720077, 研究期間(年度):2007-200