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Extracting and Analyzing Criterial Pragmatic Features in a Spoken Corpus of Japanese Learners of English

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K02937
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionTokyo University of Agriculture

Principal Investigator

MIURA Aika  東京農業大学, 農学部, 准教授 (20642276)

Research Collaborator NOMURA Mariko  
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,250,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥750,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywordsコーパス言語学 / 学習者コーパス / 第二言語習得 / 要求の発話行為 / コーパス・アノテーション / 語用論 / 話し言葉コーパス / 英語教育 / 中間言語語用論 / 第二言語習得論 / 発話行為 / 言語学 / 外国語教育 / 第二言語習得理論
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The current study aimed to extract criterial features of pragmatic competence of Japanese learners of English at different proficiency levels (i.e., the CEFR A1, A2 and B1 levels), investigating the NICT JLE Corpus. The author constructed annotation schemes to extract and analyze linguistic features of requestive speech acts and the utterance functions in shopping role plays. The study confirmed the results derived from the past studies which adopted the predominant approaches to investigating requests using the elicitation tasks: the use of conventionally indirect features (e.g., ability modals "can") tended to increase and that of direct features (e.g., ellipses and desire verbs "want") decrease with increasing proficiency, but B1 group showed some pragmatically deviant performance. The use of the NICT JLE Corpus allowed the author not only to profile what learners can actually do pragmatically at each level, but also supplement the non-corpus-based past studies with corpus evidence.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、学習者の対象言語における語用論的能力を研究する分野である中間言語語用論において、学習者コーパスが貢献できることを示した点で大きな学術的意義があると言える。従来の主流なデータ手法である抽出タスクでは、対話者の役割や社会的な力関係や距離を調整することで、着目したい発話行為を直接的に抽出できるが、学習者の実際の発話と乖離していると批判されてきた。本研究は、自然発生的な話し言葉から成る学習者コーパスを用いることによって、日本人英語学習者がどのように語用論的能力を発達させていくかの変容を統計的に明らかにし、先行研究による結果や考察を統計的に補完したり、再検証したりすることの可能性を示唆した。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 Other

All Journal Article (7 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 5 results,  Open Access: 5 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 5 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Annotating the functions of learner utterances from a spoken corpus and assigning the degrees of their grammatical accuracy and discoursal acceptability2018

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Journal Title

      The Proceedings of Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2018)

      Volume: 1 Pages: 317-324

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH 英語教育研究最前線[20]Pragmalinguistic features of polite and impolite requests produced by Japanese English learners at the CEFR B1 level2018

    • Author(s)
      三浦愛香
    • Journal Title

      英語教育

      Volume: 67 Pages: 68-69

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Assessing Politeness of Requestive Speech Acts Produced by Japanese Learners of English in a Spoken Corpus2017

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Journal Title

      Language Value

      Volume: 9 Pages: 184-217

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Forum: 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference (LCR 2017)に参加して2017

    • Author(s)
      三浦愛香
    • Journal Title

      英語コーパス学会Newsletter

      Volume: 83 Pages: 16-18

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] 学習者コーパスによる中間言語語用論分析:UAM CorpusTool Version 3.2を用いた要求の発話行為のケーススタディ2017

    • Author(s)
      三浦愛香
    • Journal Title

      語用論研究

      Volume: 18 Pages: 48-59

    • NAID

      40021152996

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Identifying Senses of a Polysemous Word “Culture” in the “Agriculture Corpus Ver. 1”2016

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Journal Title

      Annual Report of JACET SIG on ESP

      Volume: 18 Pages: 29-33

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Compiling Domain-Specific Corpora with the Sketch Engine2016

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the 8th International Conference on ESP in Asia & the 3rd International Symposium on Innovative Teaching and Research in ESP in Japan

      Volume: 1 Pages: 44-51

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] Reliability and replicability of annotation schemes for learner corpora2018

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Organizer
      英語コーパス学会第44回大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Annotating the functions of learner utterances from a spoken corpus and assigning the degree of their grammatical accuracy and discoursal acceptability2018

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Organizer
      Fourth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC 2018)
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Comparing polite and impolite linguistic patterns of requestive speech acts produced by Japanese learners of English2018

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Organizer
      11th International Conference on Im/Politeness
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Extraction of unsuitable pragmalinguistic features of requests produced by Japanese learners of English with low proficiency2017

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Organizer
      4th Learner Corpus Research LCR2017
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 日本人英語学習者コーパスにおける要求の発話行為とポライトネス2016

    • Author(s)
      三浦愛香
    • Organizer
      外国語教育メディア学会(LET)関東支部第137回(2016年度秋季)研究大会
    • Place of Presentation
      筑波大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] An annotation scheme for identifying types of 'repair' in requestive speech acts produced by Japanese learners of English2016

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Organizer
      ESSE Galway 2016
    • Place of Presentation
      National University of Ireland, Galway
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Compiling Domain-specific Corpora with the Sketch Engine2016

    • Author(s)
      Aika Miura
    • Organizer
      Joint International Conference (8th International Conference on ESP in Asia and 3rd International Symposium on Innovative Teaching and Research in ESP)
    • Place of Presentation
      電気通信大学
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] researchmap

    • URL

      http://researchmap.jp/amiurayamamoto/

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 東京農業大学 教員・研究情報

    • URL

      http://dbs.nodai.ac.jp/html/100000953_ja.html

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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