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-  417 四天王寺大学紀要 第 56 号(2013年 9 月) Mr. Kashihara This study is the third in a series of studies that reports on the effects of free voluntary reading on TOEIC gains with individual subjects, all older adults Mason, 2011, Mason, 2013) . I report here on the gains made by a 35-year-old Japanese man who read graded readers on his own and gained 220 points on the TOEIC in 6 months. Mr. Kashihara is a computer designer who creates websites and CG animations. He entered graduate school at the age of 22 and after finishing a masters program worked at a company until he was 30 years old. Then he went back to school and nished his doctorate when he was 33 years old. Currently he works as a computer designer and also teaches computer courses at a vocational school in Osaka. He reported that he had not studied English for 12 years prior to starting the reading program described here. To improve his ability to read information in English on the Internet, Mr. Kashihara took a 12-week beginning level English reading course offered by an adult education program at a university in Osaka during the summer in 2011. The orientation for the reading course included information about second language acquisition theory, focusing on the Comprehension Hypothesis Krashen, 1985, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011) , and methodology consistent with the theory. Students were told that the methodology was meaning-based, and that there would be no grammar instruction, vocabulary study, and no comprehension questions following listening The Case of Mr. Kashihara ―Another Case of Substantial Gains in Reading and Listening without Output or Grammar Study― Beniko MASON Mr. Kashiharais a 35 year old Japanese man who read 4125 pages of graded readers at home on his own for six months after he took a comprehension-based English class for beginners in an adult education program. At no time did he study English grammar, and at no time did he attempt to speak or write English. He gained 220 points on the TOEIC test in six months. This result is consistent with two previously reported case studies of adults Mason, 2011; Mason, 2013) .

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四天王寺大学紀要 第 56 号(2013年 9 月)

Mr. Kashihara

This study is the third in a series of studies that reports on the effects of free voluntary reading on TOEIC

gains with individual subjects, all older adults (Mason, 2011, Mason, 2013). I report here on the gains

made by a 35-year-old Japanese man who read graded readers on his own and gained 220 points on the

TOEIC in 6 months.

Mr. Kashihara is a computer designer who creates websites and CG animations. He entered graduate

school at the age of 22 and after finishing a master’s program worked at a company until he was 30 years old. Then he went back to school and finished his doctorate when he was 33 years old. Currently

he works as a computer designer and also teaches computer courses at a vocational school in Osaka. He

reported that he had not studied English for 12 years prior to starting the reading program described here.

To improve his ability to read information in English on the Internet, Mr. Kashihara took a 12-week

beginning level English reading course offered by an adult education program at a university in Osaka

during the summer in 2011.

The orientation for the reading course included information about second language acquisition theory,

focusing on the Comprehension Hypothesis (Krashen, 1985, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011), and methodology

consistent with the theory. Students were told that the methodology was meaning-based, and that there

would be no grammar instruction, vocabulary study, and no comprehension questions following listening

The Case of Mr. Kashihara―Another Case of Substantial Gains in Reading

and Listening without Output or Grammar Study―

Beniko MASON

“Mr. Kashihara” is a 35 year old Japanese man who read 4125 pages of graded readers at home on

his own for six months after he took a comprehension-based English class for beginners in an adult

education program. At no time did he study English grammar, and at no time did he attempt to speak or

write English. He gained 220 points on the TOEIC test in six months. This result is consistent with two

previously reported case studies of adults (Mason, 2011; Mason, 2013).

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and reading. Class-time was devoted to listening to stories told by the instructor, and homework was

reading graded readers, beginning with very easy books.

Mr. Kashihara read over 2000 pages during the summer. After finishing the class, he did not take the

course again, but continued to read on his own, following the principles he was exposed to in the

summer reading class. He checked books out from the university library including Macmillan graded

readers, books from the Oxford Bookworm series, Penguin graded readers, other books for young adults

and bestsellers (Appendix). Although he worked every day, Mr. Kashihara managed to find time to read:

He reported that he carries his books with him everywhere he goes and reads when he finds time.

He took the TOEIC examination just after completing the class, again eleven weeks later, and a third

time six months after finishing the class.

He reported that he did not do any special preparation for the TOEIC examination, but said that he

looked up unknown words on a computer dictionary and recorded the words on Excel. Mr. Kashihara

said that he probably spent about one third of his total time devoted to English doing this. He said that he

encountered many unknown words when he first started the reading course.

Results

Mr. Kashihara improved quite a bit over the first eleven weeks he spent reading, gaining 175 points,

reading 1592 pages, and he improved 45 points over the next sixteen weeks, reading 2533 pages. Note

that he improved on both reading and listening subtests. Overall, he averaged about 22 pages of reading

per day, and gained an average of .05 points for each page read. Table 1 presents three sets of TOEIC

scores. Table 2 compares Mr. Kashihara and readers studied in previous publications (Mr. Tanaka

Table 1. Mr. Kashihara’s TOEIC test resultsTOEIC

Listening scoreReading scoreTotal scorePages readTotal gain between testsWeeks between testsPages read/weekPages read/dayHours spent/dayGain per weekGain per monthPoints per page

16555220

225170395159217511 weeks144.720.61.615.958.30.11

24519544025334516 weeks158.322.61.92.812.80.02

80140220412522027 weeks Average 152.8

0.05

9/11/2011 11/27/2011 3/18/2012 Total gain

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(Mason, 2011) and Mr. Nakano (Mason, 2013).

The similarities among these cases are striking. All three made good progress largely from reading. As

noted earlier, Mr. Kashihara included extra vocabulary study (looking up words and listing them). Mr.

Tanaka’s “study time” was also dedicated to vocabulary (Mason, 2011), while Mr. Nakano spent about

8% of his English study time working through a TOEIC preparation textbook (Mason, 2013). Also, all

three made similar progress in terms of points gained on the TOEIC per page read. All three made far

better progress than junior college English majors relying on classroom instruction (Mason, 2013). The

English majors who spent about 500 hours over four semesters with classroom instruction gained only

135 points in total on the TOEIC (399.3-264.9). The gain scores on the reading section was 59.1 (153.6-94.5), and on the listening section it was 74.6 (246.8-172.2) (Pendergast, 2010).

Objections

Despite these consistent results, critics have raised objections. A frequent reaction to positive results

about the effect and efficiency of reading is that the method will not work for “regular” students; those

making progress from reading alone are “special,” exceptions to the normal route of language and

literacy development.

Previous studies that demonstrated similar results of the power of reading on standardized tests used very

different analytical approaches and subjects such as multiple regression and structural equation modeling

(analytical approaches) as well as international students preparing for study in the US, and students of

English as a foreign language in Taiwan (subjects) (Constantino, 1995; Gradman & Hanania, 1991; Constantino, Lee, Cho, & Krashen, 1997; Lee, 2007; Smith, 2006, 2011).

The subject in this study was a normal, un-extraordinary person, as were the subjects in previous studies

showing the power of reading. In one study they were reluctant learners of English (Mason & Krashen,

Table 2. Comparisons to the previous casesEstimated % of timeengaged in readingAge

Length of the study

Pages readTOEIC score gainPoints/monthPoints/page

Mr. Kashihara(67%)356 months (Sept., 2011~ March, 20124125440-220=220360.05

Mr. Nakano(92%)755 months(June, 2011 ~Nov., 2011)2624580-495=85170.03

Mr. Tanaka(78%)4212 months(Jan., 2009 ~ Jan., 2010)6456655-475=180150.03

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1997). In other studies, the subjects were Health Science majors (Mason, 2007) and vocational students

(Lee & Hsu, 2009). The adult participants in previous case histories in this series (Mason, 2011, 2013) worked during the day.

Critics also suggested that those making gains from comprehensible input alone must have gotten

supplementary input or instruction from other places. This could not be the case in Mason, Vanata,

Jander, Borsch, & Krashen, (2009), a study that demonstrated impressive gains in vocabulary from

listening to stories in German. These students had absolutely no contact with German outside of class.

The real problem: Access

The real problem is making sure those who want to improve in a second language have easy access to a

great deal of truly interesting reading. Critics say that students do not read enough to receive sufficient

amount of comprehensible input for desired language acquisition; therefore, they need direct teaching

(Cobb, 2008).

Students read when they have books. An obvious solution is to provide access to a lot of reading

material. It has been suggested that children should have access to vast amount of information on the

Internet, because children can teach themselves without supervision or formal teaching if they are

motivated and share interests with friends (Sugata Mitra: http://www.ted.com/speakers/sugata_mitra.

html). Although computers are becoming less expensive, and reading material is readily available on

the Internet, they can not escape from troubles with breakdown, running and repairing expenses. On the

other hand, books can be easily maintained and last longer; furthermore, they cost much less.

The solution to the TOEIC/English problem

TOEIC is now the worldly recognized test for companies in Asia. In Japan the number of TOEIC test

takers in 1979 was only 3000, but it increased to 268,000 in 1989, 870,000 in 1999, and 1,680,000 in

2009 (http://www.toeic.or.jp/toeic/data/data.html). Some companies now use TOEIC test scores when

making decisions concerning hiring, promoting, and firing their employees. “Soft Bank,” a cell phone

company in Japan, gives a 10,000 US dollar reward to employees who score over 900 points and 3,000 US dollars for a score of over 800 on the TOEIC.

The total number of Japanese who took the test in 2011 was 2,270,000 (at a cost of more than 124 million US dollars in test taking fees). The number of university students who took the test was 352,635. In 2011 1st year Japanese college students’ average score on the TOEIC was 421 (Listening = 234; Reading = 187), and 4th year average was 512 (Listening = 286, Reading = 226) (TOEIC TEST DATA

and ANALYSIS 2011: http://www.toeic.or.jp/toeic_en/pdf/data/TOEIC_DAA2011.pdf). Thus, Japanese

college students in current English programs at university gained an average of 91 points in four years.

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The subject in this current study, a 35-year old Japanese man, read 4125 pages (about one million

words) in six months and gained 220 points on the TOEIC, far more than college students do in four

years. This is another case of substantial gains in reading and listening without output or grammar study.

As of the time of this writing (January, 2013), Mr. Kashihara is still reading. He comes to the university

library regularly to check out books.

The results presented here are consistent with other studies showing that gains on the TOEIC or TOEFL

are related to the amount of reading done. As impressive as these cases are, however, it is imperative

that we examine readers and listeners who did no formal study of any kind, who focused only on

comprehension.

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