PATTISON Steven C.    Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  Center for Language Education    Position   Professor
Research Period	2022/04/01～2026/03/31
Research Topic	Developing a motivating CLIL based approach to teaching literature to promote communicative competence, content competence and a global mindset
Research Type	Joint Research
Research Division	KAKENHI Research
Research Program Type	Scientific Research (C) General
KAKENHI Grant No.	TBA
Keyword	Literature, Communicative Language Learning, Motivation, CLIL, Global Mindset
Research System	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Responsibility	Representative Researcher
Representative Person	Steven Pattison
Collaborative Researcher	Jeremy Redlich and Naoko Kojima
Details	A significant gap remains between the theory and practice of CLIL in establishing clear learning objectives and achieving them. To address this gap, our project will focus on a set of four learning objectives which the study of English language literature supports: communicative competence, content competence, global mindset, and motivation. Using this set of principled learning objectives that align with both the intellectual requirements of university literary studies as well as practical communicative language learning skills, the proposed project aims to trial and test the design and implementation of literature in CLIL based courses at two Japanese universities. The investigators will employ an evaluative framework that comprises the four learning objectives to set clear goals and then, using a mixed methods approach, systematically monitor the degree to which these goals are met.