パラグラフ記述支援ツールを用いた英作文指導の学習効果

抄録

In order to write a logically organized composition, it is necessary to acquire the developmental patterns of logic peculiar to English. In conventional writing teaching, however, this point has not been adequately considered. This study attempts to propose a writing course, which focuses on acquisition of logical structures. The authors developed a course in which the structures and forms of representative English paragraphs can be easily recognized and acquired. To facilitate learning, the authors developed a paragraph writing assisting tool, SOUTO, which works on the computer, and made use of it in the class. With the aid of this tool, the learners were expected to visually grasp paragraph structures and to easily edit their compositions. Lastly, the authors attempted to evaluate the effectiveness of this tool in terms of both quantity and quality. That is, an analysis of free compositions before and after the course was performed. In addition, a questionnaire survey as to how the learners felt about the tool was conducted. The results empirically confirmed the effectiveness of this tool.