* 次回：2010年4月17日（土）14:00-16:00
* 場所：出島交流会館4F
* 発表者：リチャード・ホドソン 「長崎県立大学」
* 演題： 「英語の授業でのジョークや漫画」
* 参加費：会員・学生—無料 非会員—Y1000.
「非会員が初めての人を連れてきた場合はそれぞれ500円でOK」
Can you tell a joke in English?How can learners be encouraged to experiment with humour, and what materials can teachers provide to help them do so? Telling, even understanding, a joke in a foreign language is a challenging activity demanding considerable linguistic skill, but one that provides learners with valuable opportunities for practice, access to cultural knowledge, and also to the cognitive and affective benefits of creative language play.
Recent research into the role of humour in the EFL classroom has begun to suggest guidelines for the selection and use of humorous input materials. This presentation will report on two investigations into the classroom application of these guidelines. In the first study, a series of jokes linked to everyday forms and functions found in typical communication classes and texts was introduced in a university oral communication class, encouraging learners not only to explore the principles and processes behind English jokes, but also to start experimenting with humour by rating, adapting and recreating them.
In the second investigation, students rated and wrote captions for a series of newspaper cartoons. Peer-rating of student output was compared with ratings given by native speakers of English. As well as reporting on the detailed findings of these two studies, the presentation will discuss both the broader linguistic, and specifically humour-related factors that they suggest may be significant in the selection of humorous input material for EFL classes.
Contacts for this meeting: allan@kwassui.ac.jp or leave a voice mail message at 080 6392 5688.
