「英語が読めるとはどういうことか」についての一考察

抄録

The purpose of the current study is to reconsider what English reading proficiency means. We recently had a symposium on this topic at the 11th National Meeting of JAILA (The Japan Association of International Liberal Arts), which was planned and held as a follow-up to the symposium at the 94th General Meeting of ELSJ (The English Literary Society of Japan) on the same topic. Inspired by all the discussions in both symposia on the definitions of English reading proficiency, this paper explores another way of defining it by looking at the issue from a different perspective. It focuses on the classroom activities at a Japanese university in which students read a part of a literary work and write a sequel to it, and then analyses their writing and the result of a questionnaire survey. The findings suggest that the students’ writing and their responses to the activity may show some aspects of English reading proficiency when they are engaged in creative writing based on their reading of the original literary texts.