小学校外国語活動における児童の「不安」に関する課題と支援のあり方

Issues on the Children's Anxiety toward Foreign Language Activities and the Ways to Support the Anxious Learners

Matsumiya Nagako

広島大学大学院教育学研究科紀要. 第一部, 学習開発関連領域

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Education, Hiroshima University. Part 1, Learning and curriculum development

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between the level of anxiety felt by elementary school pupils while they are in Foreign Language Activities classes and the way they cope with the anxiety provoking situations. The questionnaire research revealed that highly anxious pupils are more likely to act negatively when they come across the situations that they feel anxiety such as when they need to speak in front of other pupils. And the survey also showed that the highly anxious group tends to want more supports from teachers than the low-anxiety group. These results indicate the need of special support by teachers to reduce pupils' anxiety. To seek ways to support pupils' anxiety, interviews with 5 in-service elementary teachers were conducted and their implementations to support children's anxiety were presented as proposals.

Foreign Language Activities

Anxiety

Support

外国語活動

不安

支援

Education [ 370 ]

jpn

広島大学大学院教育学研究科

[ISSN] 1346-5546

[NCID] AA11618554