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本実践研究は、実践的コミュニケーション能力の基礎を養う手だてについて、実際の授業の分析を通して検証するものである。実践事例としては、実践的に英語使っての国際交流会の実践について言及する。　　国際交流会では、これまで学習してきた英語を使って交流することで、英語を自然な状況で使う機会を仕組むことの値打ちを確認できた。

<p>There have been recent calls from the government (e.g., Education Commission 2000) for the development of lifelong learning skills in university students. At the same time, however, there have been strong calls from sectors of the business community, along with the government, for students to demonstrate that they have reached 'acceptable' levels of English on leaving university. Many university language courses in Hong Kong, while paying lip service to the need to promote learner responsibility, give learners little chance to control their own learning, and use the limited course time available to prescribe set communication tasks in an attempt to improve performance levels. This chapter reports on a course for first-year engineering students at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) that took a different approach.</p>