| Project/Area Number |
19720141
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Tokiwa University |
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Principal Investigator |
KOIZUMI Rie Tokiwa University, 国際学部, 専任講師 (70433571)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2009)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
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| Keywords | 英語 / 英語教育学 / 言語テスティング / 第二言語習得 |
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| Research Abstract |
For analyzing spoken transcribed discourses in English as a second language, discourse analytic measures have often been employed to specifically assess fluency, accuracy, syntactic complexity, and lexical complexity. Despite their frequent use in second language acquisition research, the characteristics of these measures and also which measures should be used in a certain context have not been examined. The current study aims to explore the characteristics of the discourse analytic measures from multiple perspectives. The results indicated three main findings. First, a measure that can consistently detect a change or a difference in a learner's proficiency is "the number of tokens per minute." Second, each measure is related to every other measure to some degree in a predictable manner, and each measure assesses a part of the speaking performance. Third, the same measure can be interpreted in a similar manner across tasks when the tasks involve self-introduction and picture description.
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