@article{oai:swu.repo.nii.ac.jp:00007189, author = {金子, 朝子}, issue = {966}, journal = {学苑 昭和女子大学紀要}, month = {Jul}, note = {This paper investigates the quantity of English vocabulary in the corpus compiled from teachers’ manuals for elementary school English prepared by the MEXT. The corpus includes English both used by teachers to teach the lessons and presented in the student textbooks as well as the recorded scripts not printed in the textbooks for the newly started elementary school English curriculum in Japan. In general, the quantity of types and tokens of vocabulary and word levels measured by WordSmith and Word Level Checker respectively increase as students go up to the next grade. However, from a grammatical point of view, the manuals include higher level grammar, for example, various uses of “verb + 〜ing” form, which have been introduced in junior high schools in the former curriculum up until March in 2021. The results show a new direction of the English curriculum that aims to foster a positive attitude toward communication among the learners by exchanging messages actively with each other in English without strictly relying on the grammar but on what they actually want to say from the beginning level.}, pages = {1--11}, title = {〔論 文〕小学校「外国語活動」及び「外国語」での 使用語彙と中学校「外国語」の連携 ―動詞の〜ing形の視点から―}, year = {2021}, yomi = {カネコ, トモコ} }