The Social Situational Awareness of Japanese Learners of English as a Foreign Language

日本英语作为外语学习者的社会情境意识

基本信息

批准号：
21K13053
负责人：
ライランダージョン
金额：
$ 1.41万
依托单位：
Kyoto University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2021-04-01 至 2024-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

During the research stage for the academic year 2021-2022, the initial pilot-testing phase revealed issues with the use of the screen-based eye-tracking software. The issue related to the use of a paper-based component of the assessment, which resulted in participants waffling between the monitor, where their eye patterns were tracked, and the response sheet. This resulted in calibration issues. To resolve this, in the academic year 2022-2023, I redesigned all of the item prompts so that the original paper-based portions of the video-based pragmatic assessment were manipulated digitally and added to the screen-based version. This allowed for all aspects of the assessment to be part of the stimuli captured by eye-tracking software. I have accomplished these fixes and further pilot testing has revealed that participants no longer waffle their eye movements during the data collection procedures. Now, rather than writing item responses on a separate piece of paper, participants vocalize their choices aloud and are audio-recorded. This data, along with researcher notes, are added to the data captured by the eye-tracker. Research so far suggests that learners attend to speakers’ facial expressions and gestures presented on screen in a fashion similar to how individuals attend to real-world communication behaviors. This preliminary finding supports calls researchers have made for increased use of authentic resources in both second language instruction and assessment.

在2021-2022学年的研究阶段，初步的试点测试阶段揭示了使用基于屏幕的眼线轨道软件的问题。该问题与评估的基于纸张的组件有关，这导致参与者在监视器之间，跟踪其眼睛模式和响应表。这导致了校准问题。为了解决这一问题，在2022-2023学年，我重新设计了所有项目提示，以便对基于视频的务实评估的原始纸张部分进行了数字操纵，并添加到了基于屏幕的版本中。这允许评估的各个方面成为通过眼睛追踪软件捕获的刺激的一部分。我已经完成了这些修复程序，进一步的试点测试表明，参与者在数据收集过程中不再吹牛。现在，参与者没有在单独的纸上编写项目答复，而是大声发声并进行音频记录。这些数据以及研究人员注释都添加到眼球捕获的数据中。迄今为止的研究表明，学习者以类似于个人如何参与现实世界的沟通行为的方式来参加屏幕上发言人的面部表情和手势。这一初步发现支持研究人员在第二语言指令和评估中增加使用真实资源的电话。