JALT2025 - Tokyo

The impact of skills integration on communicative competence

Nov 2, 2025, 9:05 AM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes) Teaching Younger Learners Room 406

Speaker

Yuria Tajima (Nanzan Girls' Junior & Senior High School)

Description

This study will report on how skills integration and communication strategies (CSs) develop Japanese senior high school students’ communicative competence (CC). Results from surveys, speaking test results, written output, recorded and transcribed conversations, and student comments in interviews indicate students improve their CC. Appropriate materials and teacher collaboration are the keys to implementing skills integration.

Summary

This study will report on how skills integration and communication strategies (CSs) develop Japanese senior high school students’ communicative competence (CC). Results from surveys, speaking test results, written output, recorded and transcribed conversations, and student comments in interviews indicate students improve their CC. Appropriate materials and teacher collaboration are the keys to implementing skills integration.