Communication Activities of English Textbooks in Junior High School in Terms of Task-likeness

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  • タスク性から見た中学校英語教科書の コミュニケーション活動について
  • －教科書間の比較とタスク性に差が出る要因－
  • A Comparison among the Publishers and the Factors of the Differences of Task-likeness

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The purpose of this study is to investigate how and why communication activities of English textbooks in junior high school differ according to the publishers and grades in terms of task-likeness. Nine researchers have analyzed the English textbooks of three grades published by six major publishers, and used the criterion of task-likeness based on Usuda et al.(2014). The results showed that Publisher A was rated the most task-likely of all the publishers. Publishers A, B, and F were, moreover, rated much more task-likely than Publishers C, D, and E. That is, the bipolarization of task-likeness was observed among publishers. With regard to the grades, we found that the textbooks in Publisher A became more task-likely, as the grade goes up, and this tendency was not observed in the other publishers. We also indicated the factors of the differences of task-likeness among these communication activities with some examples.

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  • HELES JOURNAL

    HELES JOURNAL 16 (0), 19-34, 2017

    The Hokkaido English Language Education Society

Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390282681200605824
  • NII Article ID
    130006733721
  • DOI
    10.24675/helesje.16.0_19
  • ISSN
    24340243
    13476343
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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    Disallowed

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