外国語学習における『音読』 : 国際比較研究

抄録

The present study is aimed at examining how reading aloud is instructed in foreign language learning in some selected countries of the world, and investigating what factors have an influence on teaching/learning reading aloud , especially chorus reading. In this study we focused on class size and the form of each class, that is, whether instruction was individualized or directed toward the entire, and set up two assumption: 1) Full-class instruction is generally common to the countries where chorus reading is used in foreign language classes. 2) There is a general tendency to practice chorus reading in the countries where most schools have a rather large class size. The questionnaire and interview according to class size, form of class and reading aloud were administered to 48 informants from 40 countries. As for the first assumption, we found that half the countries which used full-class instruction marked the category "chorus reading is popular." Concerning the second assumption, it could be concluded that individual reading was popular in small classes, while, chorus reading was performed in large ones.