Abstract
One of the critical points at issue for the improvement on the present state of English teaching for senior high schools in Japan is to help students enhance their motivation to learn English proactively. In this practical report, an English teaching model was developed to foster such attitudes through the subject of English Communication I. Some of the operating procedures the model employed were: a core performance task, three consecutive tasks, and genre-based writing instruction. A teacher of a commercial high school taught her students based on the model for 12 months and administered a questionnaire, which showed advantages of the model in enhancing her students' proactive attitude, learner motivation, and autonomy, as well as a significant increase in the students' test results. The learner' responses revealed the effectiveness of such teaching devices as preview activities, meaningful tasks, student-teacher conferences, and reflective activities.
