Reproducibility of Foreign LanguageTeaching Research
An outreach website for a research project on the reproducibility of foreign language teaching research. The research project is being conducted mainly in Japan, and this page is a translated version of the original website.
There has been a striking increase in interest on the reproducibility of scientific research in various academic fields. Foreign language teaching research, which is the focus of this website, should not be an exception to this trend. However, starting with a simple question like "is foreign language teaching research reproducible?", gives rise to numerous difficult questions.
“From the outset, can we pursue the question of reproducibility in a field that is not part of the natural sciences? If so, what types of research methods are required?"
This website presents information on our research project, which examines the aforementioned questions. This work is supported by JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research number JP20H01284.
Updated：7/9/2021
PROJECT GOALS
This project originally began with the simple question "Is foreign language teaching research reproducible?" after encountering the reproducibility crisis in psychology.
Our team is now simultaneously conducting eight replications of studies in each of the following research areas in foreign language teaching:
Writing
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Vocabulary
Grammar
Motivation
Strategy
We shall integrate the results of all the replication studies above using Bayesian statistics and with open code and open data disciplines.
... and shall continue discussing everything related to the issue "reproducibility of foreign language teaching research".
OUTCOMES
- Presentations
Kusanagi, K., Ishii, Y., Nakamura, D., Unzai, H., Furukawa, M., Lee, J. H., Kumai, S., & Yamamori, K. (2021). How the statistical reform expanded to educational research. The Japanese Associatio of Educational Psychology 2022, Online. [Written in Japanese]
- Research Articles
Kusanagi, K., Kida, S., & Watari, Y. (2021). Reproducibility in foreign language teaching research: Rejecting the naïve perspective and supporting the pursuit. Hiroshima Studies in Language and Language Education, 24, 179-195. http://doi.org/10.15027/50455 [Written in Japanese]
Mizumoto, A. (2022, May 10). Calculating the relative importance of multiple regression predictor variables using dominance analysis and random forests. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/w8nb3
- Books
There is a plan to publish a book with a collection of the outcomes of the project in 2023.
PROJECT MEMBERS
KIDA, Shusaku, Ph.D (Doshisha University, Japan) : The project manager, Vocabulary studies
HIROMORI, Tomohito, Ph.D (Meiji University, Japan): Motivation studies
HOSHINO, Yuko, Ph.D (Chiba University, Japan): Reading studies
ISHII, Yutaka, Ph.D (Chiba University, Japan): Writing studies
ISODA, Takamichi, Ph.D (Ritsumeikan University, Japan): Speaking studies
KUSANAGI, Kunihiro, Ph.D (Prefectual Univerisity of Hiroshima, Japan): Analyses
MIZUMOTO, Atsushi, Ph.D (Kansai University, Japan): Strategy studies
TOKUOKA, Masaru, Ph.D (University of Human Enviroments, Japan): Analyses
YAMATO, Kazuhito, Ph.D (Kobe University, Japan): Speaking studies
YAMAUCHI, Yuka, Ph.D (Hiroshima University, Japan): Listening studies
WATARI, Yoichi, Ph.D (Chukyo University, Japan): Grammar studies