ナカニシ　ダイスケ   NAKANISHI Daisuke   中西　大輔    所属   広島修道大学  健康科学部    職種   教授
発表年月日	2023/03/14
発表テーマ	Rethinking Tertiary-Level EFL Learners’ Needs and Self- Evaluation of Their Proficiency for a COVID-19 Endemic World
会議名	57th RELC International Conference
学会区分	国際学会
発表形式	口頭（一般）
単独共同区分	共同
開催地名	Singapore
発表者・共同発表者	Tanaka, H., Urano, K., Ozawa, S., & Nakanishi, D.
概要	Investigating learning needs is an essential stage in any language program development and evaluation process. This study aims to examine Japanese tertiary-level EFL learners' needs and self-evaluation of their English proficiency in order to inform researchers and practitioners as well as teachers at their schools of the current learners' reality in a COVID-19 endemic world. In the preliminary study, 241 participants (119 first- year and 122 second-year English and its Culture major students) completed an online questionnaire survey, which asked about their current self-evaluated proficiency, their learning needs at the time of graduation, and their life-long learning needs according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference) descriptors in five skills; listening, speaking, interacting, reading, and writing. Their English proficiency measured by an English proficiency test, TOEIC, varied from 180 to 885 with an average of 475.25 (SD = 128.05). The participants also answered an open-ended question regarding their skill needs at the time of graduation. Their self-evaluation levels were compared with their scores of the English proficiency test. Tentative results showed that the participants tended to judge their current proficiency level higher than reality and to expect to achieve more than they could probably do at the time of graduation. The results of an open- ended question implied that there were certain needs for real-time communication with other English speakers, which possibly reflected the participants' lowest evaluation in their current interacting skills among the five skills. This paper will report on the results of the main study with additional participants from a different major (i.e., Business Administration) from the same university as well as participants from a different university to examine the extent to which the results of the preliminary study can be generalized.