COLLABOYOU ENGLISH: An English Education Program for Senior High School Students to Be Able to Communicate in English
213M016 Y. S.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potentialities of Collaboyou English, an English education program targeting senior high school students. The goal of this program is to develop students' oral communication abilities such as accurately understanding and appropriately conveying information, ideas, etc. about their fields of interest. The program focuses on automatization of oral skills through communication practice, using the knowledge which students already have, and a set of chosen 1,000 words in Oxford English Corpus.
In this paper, the author examines to what extent six senior high school second-year students, who were provided with the Collaboyou English program, developed their oral communication abilities. Online listening tests, trial examinations at school, speaking tests, and questionnaires were used to provide data for the purpose of evaluating the results of this program.
The improvement of the students' listening and speaking abilities were clearly observed. For example, on the online listening tests, three out of six students improved their levels, based on the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" by the Council of Europe (2001). On the trial examinations, in the period between 2013 and 2014 the difference between the national students' average and Collaboyou English students' average increased by 16.5 percentage points in favor of Collaboyou English. Therefore, Collaboyou English could be considered as an effective English education program in terms of cultivating oral English.
In the first chapter of this paper, Collaboyou English is explained in detail. In the second chapter, the research methods and the final results of this program are analyzed and discussed.