日本の英語学習者の認知方略使用に影響を与える要因について

抄録

In 2009, the author's research team investigated 3587 college students from 13 universities and stated that one of the major factors which differentiated the upper from the middle and lower percentile groups was the use of cognitive strategies and that the higher the English proficiency of the students became, the more the number of their intrinsic values became. This year, using the same data, the author investigated the cause and the effect between their use of cognitive strategy and their intrinsic values among Japanese college students. According to the major results, in the best students, four of the questionnaire items on intrinsic value were the causes of their cognitive strategic use, in the middle students group, two items on intrinsic value were the causes and in the poor performers, only one item of intrinsic value was the cause. After analyzing the data, some educational implications that English education in Japan should make a paradigm shift to English education based on action-oriented language learning view are discussed.