教員・研究者情報 - 真歩仁　しょうん | 福島大学

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マホニイ　ショウン Sean Mahoney
真歩仁　しょうん

所属福島大学行政政策学類地域社会と文化コース

職種教授

研究成果本文へのリンク
福島大学学術機関リポジトリ　FUKURO_フクロウ_

プロフィール
Sean Mahoney taught at high school and university levels in Canada before coming to Japan in 1995 with an MA in English from the University of Victoria. He is Professor of English at Fukushima University, where he has enjoyed teaching for over 25 years. Along with two university textbooks, he has published articles and book chapters in several countries on foreign language acquisition, including error gravity, mutual intelligibility, team-teaching issues, speech rate, and Japan's English language education policy. He has recently completed a chapter in Team Teachers in Japan: Beliefs, Identities, and Emotions, which was published by Routledge in summer 2023, and is currently working on two textbooks.

資格・免許
2009/12	日本語能力試験（一級）

教育・研究活動状況
I have recently published on a 5-year, MEXT-sponsored inquiry into the teaching of English at Japan's primary schools, particularly the contributions from so-called non-native English speaking assistant teachers. I had conducted a nationwide survey of 277 members of this increasingly important group of educators, both Japanese and non-Japanese, as the parameters on language use and ownership issues continue to expand. For my next research project, I'd like to reconsider a project from 2006-09, in which I focused on comparing the weight of different types of written errors in English (a research field called Error Gravity or 誤りの重み, 誤りの深刻度). This time, however, I would like to focus on the ranking of specific phoneme-related (or spoken) errors. Since mutual intelligibility is paramount in English Lingua Franca communication, it is necessary to determine which consonant and vowel distinctions have the greatest impact on comprehensibility and intelligibility. I have thus been studying the concept of Functional Load (機能負担量, 機能的負荷) and suprasegmental variance, and am training myself in how to use the PRAAT Spectrogram, which analyses acoustic sound waves. I would like to see whether the notion of Functional Load, if combined with key findings from Error Gravity studies, may contribute to improving English pronunciation teaching in Japan.

自己PR
1) Author of Chapter 14 in: Hiratsuka, T. (Ed.). (2023). Team teachers in Japan: Beliefs, identities, and emotions. Routledge. (https://www.routledge.com/Team-Teachers-in-Japan-Beliefs-Identities-and-Emotions/Hiratsuka/p/book/9781032265841); 2) Frequent reviewer of book proposals for Cambridge University Press; 3) Executive for the Japan Society of English Language Education and for the Japan Association of English Teaching in Elementary Schools (JES); 4) Author of ALT Training Online Module #21: Doing Research (open access material to help ALTs learn how to do research)

現在の専門分野
英語教育、第二言語習得キーワード(外国語・外国文化)

研究テーマ
	英語教育、外国語習得論、誤りの重み付け、Functional Load, 教育と文化の関わり

研究課題・受託研究・科研費
2016/10 ～ 2021/03	学術研究助成基金助成金科学研究費助成事業助基C)行-真歩仁-Assessing Foreign Language Activity Assistants' perspectives on primary Foreign Language Activities
2011/04 ～ 2013/03	文部科学省基盤研究（ｃ）科学研究費助成事業小・中学校の英語学習・指導の一致性に関する調査
1999/04 ～ 2000/03	科学研究費助成事業　基盤研究(C) 科学研究費助成事業中学校・高等学校の日本人英語教師と外国人教師の言語学習・指導に関する考え方の調査

著書・論文歴
著書	Hiratsuka, T. (Ed.). (2023). “Straight Talk about English from Primary School Homeroom Teachers” (Chapter 14) in Team teachers in Japan: Beliefs, identities, and emotions. Routledge. ISBN 9781032265841.,175-185頁 (共著) 2023/07/14
著書	平成23年度－25年度科学研究費助成事業（基盤研究C）課題番号23520743 小・中学校の英語学習・指導の一致性に関する調査 (単著) 2014/03
著書	文化資産として美術館利用ー地域の教育・文化的生活に資する方法研究と実践 (共著) 2012/10
著書	New Essential Listening for the TOEIC Test (共著) 2007/03
著書	Essential Listening for the TOEIC Test (共著) 2005/01
全件表示（26件）

学会発表
2025/07/05	ワークショップ(40分✖️2回）:「アルファベットの基本的な音の指導に生かせるアクティビティー：英語カルタを例に」 (第 25 回全国小学校英語教育学会（JES: The Japan Association of English Language Teaching in Elementary Schools）)
2023/08/19	Japanese and non-Anglosphere instructors in primary classrooms (第48回全国英語教育学会)
2020/11/22	Locating the Non-native English-speaking Assistant (JALT 46th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning (Online Conference))
2019/11/03	Non-native English-speaking assistants at Shogakko (JALT 45th Annual International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning & Educational Materials Exhibition)
2019/07/20	Bilingual and multilingual ALTs: A new era (第19回小学校英語教育学会(JES))
全件表示（22件）

講師・講演
2021/10/25	Helping your team teacher
2021/10/25	Complementing your team teacher

教育実績

●作成した教科書、教材

2025/05/08 ～ 2025/05/08	Online Publication　:研究したい英語指導者用の研修教材