| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In the first year (2015), more than 3000 English sentences were collected by a free-writing task from Japanese-speaking learners of English as a foreign language, and 881 sentences containing grammatical errors such as John like dogs were extracted. Dividing 687 errors into five types, it turned out that error rates increased from tense to subject-verb agreement, number agreement, preposition, and articles.
In the second year (2016), a self-paced reading experiment was conducted to observe reading time difference between grammatical and ungrammatical sentences in English for a native speaker of English and two Japanese-speaking learners. Only for the native English speaker, longer reading time was found in ungrammatical sentences, compared to grammatical sentences. A questionnaire experiment was carried out to investigate Japanese-speaking learners' acceptability of ungrammatical sentences in English, and it was found that they sometimes accepted ungrammatical sentences.
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