研究成果報告書
2021 年 7 月 30 日

１．所属・職・氏名等

語学教育センター
講師

デルグレゴ

ニコラス

２．研究課題（テーマ）名1. The Development and Implementation of Writing Centers and Peer Learning
Japanese Universities; 2. The Impact of Writing Centers on Administrators,Tutors,

inandWriters at Japanese universities. 3. Online Tutoring during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
３．研究期間
令和２年度
４．利用した研究費の種類及び金額
学術研究費交付金

250000 円

若手教員研究促進交付金

100000 円

５．研究の概要
My main area of research is the development and implementation of writing
centers in Japanese Universities. I have since expanded from solely studying
writing centers to include the impact of peer learning. I have conducted (andcontinue to conduct) interviews with administrators, tutors, and writers fromwriting centers at Japanese universities. A secondary research interest thatdeveloped due to the Covid-19 pandemic was the shift from face-to-face tutoring toonline tutoring and the positives/negatives from this change.
６．研究成果等
At the end of the 2019 Academic Year, I was gathering data from on-site visits towriting centers in the Kanto, Tokai, and Kansai regions. I had made several connections withadministrators at various centers throughout Japan. While I started to collect data eagerly inFebruary/March of 2020, the coronavirus pandemic brought on-site data collection to a halt.
Starting in April 2020, switching to a completely online-teaching environment was very
difficult for me and many colleagues. Simultaneously, research activities were nearly impossible
to conduct using pre-Covid methods. I attempted to change my practices and contacted thewriting centers I had planned to visit over the 2020 Academic Year. I asked the administrative
staff and tutors if I could reschedule interviews as Zoom meetings. These meetings were moved
to August/September of 2020 and February/March of 2021. While site visits have uniquely richdata, I made the most of my situation and interviewed four tutors and three writers. I used asemi-structured interview format to engage them about their tutoring practices. The data wasrecorded, translated, transcribed, and coded. I specifically used the money from these two grants

to give renumeration to research participants and to help code and transcribe the raw interview
data.
This research is ongoing from previous years. However, I simultaneously asked thetutors and writers about two other areas I had not investigated in the past. The additional areasof interest were the appropriate (time) length of sessions and the positive/negative experienceswith tutoring online. The interviews have been fascinating, and I look forward to presenting myfindings in the future. I also wish to focus more on the experiences of administrators/directors
of writing centers and their views on how writing centers or if writing centers impact writing
education in Japan in general.
As always, thank you for the opportunity to conduct research through these grants. I
look forward to continuing my research activities in the future.
７．研究の実績（論文・発表等）【著書】佐渡島紗織、オリベイラ・ディエゴ 、嶼田大海, デルグレゴ ・ニコラス(2020)

レポート・論文をさらによくする「引用」ガイド 大修館書店 (ISBN:9784469222715)【論文】 Delgrego, N. (2021). Self-Access Upgrade: ALC NetAcademy2 to ALC NetAcademy
NEXT. Tsuru University Foreign Language Journal 2021.
【論文】 Ohashi, L., Delgrego, N., Underwood, J., & Abe, M. (2021). Teachers as self-directed
learning guides. In P. Clements, R. Derrah, & R. Gentry (Eds.), Communities of teachers &learners. JALT.
【学会発表】Using Corpus Tools to Promote Writer Autonomy (10/2020)
書き手の自主性を尊重したコーパスツールの活用方法
Tokyo Tech Writing Center (TTWCR)
Workshop (Invited Speaker), Online【学会発表】Teachers as Self-Directed Learning Guides (11/2020)
JALT 46th Annual Conference, Online