リスニングにおけるニュース英語ビデオ利用の効果について(指導技術論)

抄録

Recently, common wisdom has decreed that the use of videos in the classroom will enhance and improve language comprehension among English language students. Indeed, recent studies find that using videos can enhance students' motivation to study. Nevertheless, empirical research on the effectiveness of using videos is not copious. To fill the void, the present study focuses on empirical data on the efficacy of videos in the classroom. This study's primary purpose is a comparison of learning curves in classrooms using English videos to those that do not. There are four subsidiary aims : (1) to establish an efficacious sequence in the use of video tapes/ audio tapes. Specifically, we were measuring whether students learned English faster if they watched a video before or after listening to its audio tape; (2) to measure the results, before or after subjects watch a video, attained when they listen to the sound while reading a tapescript at the tape speed. Specifically, we were measuring the difference between comprehension achieved by listening to utterances and comprehension achieved by listening to and looking at the same utterances concurrently; (3) to investigate to what degree the results of the above methods vary with the students' listening proficiency. These results were analyzed by two types of listening comprehension tests, basic questions and advanced questions.