Nara University of Education ELT Study Group -August 2025- (the Chubu English Language Education Society Nara Chapter) 奈良教育大学英語教育研究会2025年8月の会 （中部地区英語教育学会奈良支部研究会）

We would like to hold a study meeting on English education at Nara University of Education! Please join us if you are involved with English education or have an interest in it.

Date and time: 14:00～, August 3rd, 2025
Location: Nara University of Education 306 Classroom

Program:
14:00 Opening, greetings, and purpose explanation

14:05～15:05 Presentation 1
Fostering English Proficiency Through Authorized Textbooks: A Practice Report Based on the TANABU Model
Tadashi IZUMITANI (Kindai University Senior & Junior High School)

This presentation reports lessons based on the TANABU Model (Kanatani & Tsutsumi 2017), which was developed to foster students’ communication skills through the authorized textbooks. What is unique in this model is to change lesson plans depending on chapters on the textbooks. I would like to share two courses from the model, Kotteri and Cho-kotteri, and to suggest that prepared accuracy-based approaches which integrated communication activities as a final goal will be effective for (general) Japanese EFL secondary school students.

15:10〜16:10 Presentation 2
How Learners Manage Interaction in EFL Classrooms: Conversation Analytic Insights from Pair Work and Student Debates
Akie FUKUSHIMA (Kio University)

This study explores how learners manage interaction in L2 and sustain mutual understanding during peer interaction in EFL classrooms, contributing to their development of interactional competence. Drawing on conversation analytic perspectives, it focuses on two kinds of classroom tasks: pair work involving a camera as a recording device and impromptu student debates.
The first part examines learners’ strategic use of camera orientation during peer tasks. Findings show that by momentarily addressing the camera, learners reorganize the participation framework—alleviating trouble in turn construction, facilitating sequence closure, and mitigating the face-threatening nature of repair. The second part investigates how learners orient to their institutional roles (affirmative/negative) as resources for defining key terms and reconstructing meaning in situ during debate-based question-and-answer sessions.
Across both contexts, learners orient to their ongoing interaction by drawing on locally available material or institutional resources. These interactional resources help learners respond to contingencies by enabling them to manage participation and negotiate meaning in context. Crucially, such resources become accessible and mobilizable through task design and teacher mediation. The findings thus underscore the need for task designs that create opportunities for learners to identify, access, and mobilize interactional resources as part of their participation.

16:10〜16:25 Discussion (followed by continued discussion for those who wish to participate)

*Each presentation has Q&A or discussion time.
*This event will be held in a face-to-face format (the event can also be viewed via Zoom).

Application: please apply from the following URL by July 26th, 2025 https://forms.gle/wgVTtxDz4dzwVNXf9

Contact:
nueeltsg@gmail.com (Tadashi IZUMITANI, Kindai University Senior & Junior High School)
sato.rintaro@cc.nara-edu.ac.jp (Rintaro SATO, Nara University of Education）

この度、奈良教育大学英語教育研究会を開催致します。英語教育に関わっている方、学生・院生、また、英語を学んでいる方で、関心のある方がおられましたら、お気軽に参加くださればと思います。

日時：2025年８月３日（日）14時00分～
場所：奈良教育大学306教室

内容：
14:00 開会・挨拶・主旨説明

14:05〜15:05 発表１
Fostering English Proficiency Through Authorized Textbooks: A Practice Report Based on the TANABU Model
発表者：泉谷忠至（近畿大学附属高等学校・中学校）

15:10～16:10 発表２
How Learners Manage Interaction in EFL Classrooms: Conversation Analytic Insights from Pair Work and Student Debates
発表者：福島玲枝（畿央大学）

16:10～16:25 意見交換（以後、希望者による意見交換継続）

※各発表時間は質疑応答・内容討議を含みます。
※今回は対面開催（Zoomによる視聴可）となります。

申し込み：右のURLより2025年7月26日（土）までにお願いします。https://forms.gle/wgVTtxDz4dzwVNXf9

問い合わせ：
nueeltsg@gmail.com（近畿大学附属高等学校・中学校 泉谷忠至）
sato.rintaro@cc.nara-edu.ac.jp（奈良教育大学 佐藤臨太郎）