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Presentation 2010-05-28 13:45
Longitudinal Survey of Listening/Speaking Fluency of Students Entering a Japanese College
Yasunari Harada (Waseda Univ.), Masanori Suzuki (Pearson) TL2010-5
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(in English) As the Japanese society became more and more internationalized, need for spoken and written English proficiency is being recognized more acutely in the industry and in the school systems. National syllabus for junior and senior high schools set forth by the Japanese Ministry of Education has emphasized communicative approach since the 1990’s and a listening test has been incorporated into the College Entrance Examination Center test, which a half million examinees take every January. On the other hand, college English teachers express that traditional translation / reading approach is still dominant in Japanese junior and senior high schools because of the entrance examination wash-back and as decrease in young population resulted in easier entrance examination selection, academic achievement of entering students in general are dropping every year. The authors have been surveying the spoken English proficiency levels of university freshmen at a private university at the time of entrance. In this presentation, we report on potential change in spoken English proficiency, in April of each year (2006 to 2009) using a standardized spoken English test called Versant English Test.
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(in English) fixed time point survey / English proficiency / university freshmen / automated spoken English test / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 110, no. 63, TL2010-5, pp. 21-25, May 2010.
Paper # TL2010-5 
Date of Issue 2010-05-21 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Conference Date 2010-05-28 - 2010-05-28 
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Place (in English) Kikai-Shinko-Kaikan Bldg 
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Title (in English) Longitudinal Survey of Listening/Speaking Fluency of Students Entering a Japanese College 
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1st Author's Name Yasunari Harada  
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University (Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Masanori Suzuki  
2nd Author's Affiliation Pearson Knowledge Technologies (Pearson)
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Date Time 2010-05-28 13:45:00 
Presentation Time 25 minutes 
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Paper # TL2010-5 
Volume (vol) vol.110 
Number (no) no.63 
Page pp.21-25 
#Pages 5 
Date of Issue 2010-05-21 (TL) 

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