「書く事」に慣れるための英作文の授業手順 : 書く作業を通して英語との接触を深める

抄録

This paper is a report on the effectiveness of the classroom teaching procedure of an English writing course with the aid of three worksheets produced by the writer. The procedure consists of five steps of activities, which accord with the principles of Second Language Acquisition; 1) Input Hypothesis (Comprehensible Input, the 1+1 Hypothesis), 2) Output Hypothesis (Comprehensible Output, the Pushed Output Hypothesis, Let the Students Write and Speak Out). Subjects are twenty-four freshmen of a junior college affiliated to Science and Technology Department of Nihon University. Adopting this teaching procedure the writer tries to urge the students to write a set of correct English sentences as many times as possible using about forty-five minutes in one class hour (90 minutes), thus letting their hands physically get used to the writing system of the English language. Activities that are related to other three skills of the language are also included in this procedure, but the focus is on the productive ones; writing and speaking. The effectiveness of the teaching procedure can be seen in the results of the pretest and of the post test, and in the answers of the questionnaire given to the students on the last day of the course.