The relationship between interaction, intelligibility, comprehensibility, and speaking confidence among Non-native English speakers
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19K13220
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02080:English linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | Niigata University |
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Principal Investigator |
ONeal George 新潟大学, 教育・学生支援機構, 准教授 (10554256)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | Phonetics / Phonology / ELF / Interaction Hypothesis / SLA / Intelligibility / Segmental Repair / Comprehensibility / Conversation Analysis / L2 Phonology / Speaking Confidence / Speaking-Confidence / Interaction |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Research finds that the English pronunciation of Japanese university graduates students continues to lag. To stay competitive in today’s global society, English pronunciation skills must improve. One method, Negotiated Interaction (NI), has been proven to be effective, but there is little research on exactly which aspects of an interaction best improve English pronunciation skills. This research will examine the results of an experiment on NI to uncover which aspects of an interaction best lead to improved speaking skills.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Because the covid-19 pandemic, the results of this research were actually quite limited. This research proposal required experiments that necessitated putting research subjects in close proximity with each other. Accordingly, for the safety of the research participants, the experiments that were part of this proposal were cancelled in the middle of the experiment. I was not able to gather the sample size that was specified in the original research proposal. I did write up the results of the experiment based on the data that I gathered, but because of the small sample size, the results are somewhat ambiguous and do not support all the hypotheses.
As far as publications, I was only able to publish one peer-reviewed article during the research period. Although other articles are in peer review right now, all in all, I cannot claim to have been able to fulfill the purpose of the original research proposal during the research period. Of course, this is because of the covid-19 pandemic.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The goal of this research was to ascertain the extent to which interaction makes pronunciation more intelligible among Japanese speakers of English and other non-native speakers. The tentative results suggest that some activities facilitate intelligibility more than other kinds of activities.
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Report
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Research Products
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