第１部：研究発表（14:00-15:20） 発表者：大坪 久子 会員 (Lego Serious Play Facilitator、昭和女子大学大学院 後期博士課程文学言語学専攻)」 発表題目：“LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Learning Strategies to Promote High School Students’ Speaking Ability”
要旨：The purpose of this research is to identify an effective way for English teachers in Japan to promote English as a lingua franca for current and future generations of Japanese learners of English at high school. Central to this research is an attempt to clarify key aspects of applying LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® learning strategies to promote high school students’ speaking ability. In recent decades, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has attempted to reform high school English education. Yet the average students’ communicative competence has not improved. The goals of improving the students’ communicative ability, which are admirable in theory, have in most cases not been realized in practice. This suggests that more than cosmetic reforms are required. What is needed is a complete rethinking of the way English is learned and taught.
プロフィール： 1974 Graduated Seinan Gakuin University with a Bachelor’s Degree in English literature. 1974 Scientific technical translation in Fukuoka municipal water research institution 1975 Volunteer interpreter at the World Youth Association (Sekai Seishounen Kouryuu Kyoukai) in Tokyo for almost 10 years, working in England, China, Malaysia and European countries. 1985 Began 25-year career as a high school English teacher in Saga Prefecture. 1998 Selected for a Monbusho overseas study scholarship at Minnesota University. 2016- Awarded a Master’s Degree in Education by Saga University. – Licensed as a Lego Serious Play Facilitator, attending workshops in Singapore and Denmark. – Commenced Doctoral course in Literature Linguistics at Showa Women’s University. – Received the incentive prize by English Phonetics Society in Japan(EPSJ) held at Waseda University. – Attended facilitators’ workshops of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Community Meeting in Singapore, Denmark. 2017 Attended facilitators’ workshops of LEGO SERIOUS PLAY Community Meeting in Tokyo, Japan.
