特別講演会
九州大学外国人教師
ジェニファー・ラーソン−ホール博士
（第二言語習得、とくに統計的研究）
演題：We need more time to learn
languages well. Should we start teaching them at an earlier age?
日時：２０１3年７月１９日（金） １６：３０−１８：００
会場：早稲田大学早稲田キャンパス １６号館３０５号室
使用言語：英語
参加費：無料
URL: http://www.f.waseda.jp/tharada/larsonhall/talk.htm
交通アクセス： http://www.waseda.jp/jp/campus/waseda.html
問い合せ先： 早稲田大学教育・総合科学学術院
原田哲男
Special Lecture
Dr. Jenifer Larson-Hall
(Second
Language Acquisition & Statistics in SLA)
Kyushu University
Title: We
need more time to learn languages well. Should we start teaching them at an
earlier age?
Time/Date: 16:30-18:00, Friday,
July 19, 2013
Venue: Room
305, Building 16, Waseda University (Waseda Campus)
Language: The talk will be given in English.
Admission: Free
URL: http://www.f.waseda.jp/tharada/larsonhall/talk.htm
Access & Campus Map: http://www.waseda.jp/eng/campus/map.html
Contact Info: Tetsuo
Harada
Faculty of Education and
Integrated Arts and Sciences
Waseda University
Abstract
For a native speaker of
Japanese, it takes about 2250 hours of input to learn to speak English to an
intermediate level. The average college undergraduate may have spent 1700 hours
learning English in the Japanese educational system (including hours of
homework). There's a gap between how much time is needed to become reasonably
fluent in a language and how much time Japanese learners of English have spent
learning English. One common misperception is that younger learners are always
faster and better at learning languages, which may be one reason behind the
government's proposal to lower the age at which English is taught in Japanese
elementary schools to third grade, and make English a mandatory subject. I will
discuss research from a number of areas: research which shows that younger is
better for learning a language but only in the context of massive amounts of input;
studies which have been done on language learning in school contexts which have
generally not found any advantage to any early start; and language learning
programs in countries such as Korea, which do have earlier Elementary English
programs that seem to be fairly successful.
Recent Publications
Larson-Hall, J. (2008). Weighing the benefits of studying a foreign
language at a younger starting age in a minimal input situation. Second
Language Research, 24(1), 35-63.
Larson-Hall, J. (2009). A guide to doing
statistics in second language research using SPSS. New York: Routledge.
Larson-Hall, J. (2012).
How to run statistical analyses. In A. Mackey,
& S. M. Gass (Eds.), Research
Methods in Second Language Acquisition: A Practical Guide (pp. 245-274).
Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Brown, S., & Larson-Hall, J. (2012). Second language
acquisition myths: Applying second language research to classroom teaching.
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.