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Factors in the path from native language to the acquisition of second language proficiency

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K00609
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
Research InstitutionFuture University-Hakodate

Principal Investigator

MIYAMOTO EDSON・T  公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 教授 (60335479)

Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2025-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywordssentence comprehension / second language / reading proficiency / English / reading / exposure / reading speed / sentence / Thai / Japanese / working memory / Chinese / relative clauses / number agreement / second-languge / parsing / frequency / adaptation
Outline of Research at the Start

This project collects reading-time data from native speakers of Chinese, Japanese and Thai to investigate the interplay between different types of native languages with English as a second language. Adaptation along the experiments will be investigated by measuring reading-time speedups to grammatical and ungrammatical sentences.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

Results of a study in collaboration with Adam Smith from the Future University Hakodate, were presented at JSLS2023 (Japanese Society for Language Sciences) in July 2023. A replication was conducted between December 2023 and March 2024, and the data collected are currently being analyzed for a possible presentation during 2024.
Two studies were conducted in 2019 at the National Taiwan University with the collaboration of local researchers. Because of the pandemic, data collection could not be carried out in 2020. Therefore, data were collected online in February 2024 to complement the data from 2019. Preliminary analyses indicate trends that will be reported in a manuscript under preparation to be submitted to an international journal.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.

Reason

Data collection has been delayed because of difficulty in traveling to Taiwan and in running experiments in person. One set has been collected online from native Chinese speakers in Taipei in February 2024. Another set will be collected, also online, from native English speakers during 2024.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

Data will be collected online from native English speakers during 2024. This should complete all the data needed for this project and manuscripts are being prepared for submission to international journals.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2023 Research-status Report
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All 2023 2019 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (2 results) Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] Chiang Mai University(タイ)

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] Chiang Mai University(タイ)

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] BCCWJ-EyeTrack: Reading Time Annotation on the ‘Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese’2019

    • Author(s)
      浅原正幸, 小野 創, 宮本エジソン正.
    • Journal Title

      GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan)

      Volume: 156 Issue: 0 Pages: 67-96

    • DOI

      10.11435/gengo.156.0_67

    • NAID

      130007831108

    • ISSN
      0024-3914, 2185-6710
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Working memory, closure and relative clauses in Japanese2019

    • Author(s)
      Miyamoto, Edson T.
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Language Sciences : Journal of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences

      Volume: 18 Pages: 1-12

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Reading fluency and voluntary participation in a fully online speed reading program2023

    • Author(s)
      Edson T. Miyamoto, Adam Smith
    • Organizer
      24th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences (JSLS2023)
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Weighing in on relative clauses in Chinese2023

    • Author(s)
      Edson T. Miyamoto
    • Organizer
      National Taiwan University-Universiyt of Tokyo Linguistic Festa
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Reading fluency and voluntary participation in a fully online speed reading program2023

    • Author(s)
      Edson T. Miyamoto, Adam Smith
    • Organizer
      24th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Thai learners of English are sensitive to number-agreement violations2019

    • Author(s)
      Siriwittayakorn, Teeranoot, & Miyamoto, Edson T.
    • Organizer
      PACLIC 33 - The 33rd Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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