| Project/Area Number |
20K00584
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo (2023)
Waseda University (2020-2022) |
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Principal Investigator |
ローランド ダグラス 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (60749290)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
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: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | eye tracking / L2 comprehension / Eye tracking / Language comprehension / Language proficiency / 2nd language acquisition / English |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
We will investigate how patterns of eye-movements during reading differ between native and non-native speakers of a language. This will provide insight into the comprehension processes used by native and non-native speakers, including further insight into the development of automaticity during language acquisition and which structures remain difficult for non-native speakers even as proficiency approaches native level, and will have implications for how best to improve the proficiency of non-native speakers.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
We were able to start collecting eye-tracking data from Japanese speakers of English in 2023, and continued to collect/analyze online self-paced reading time data and sentence completion data from native speakers of English, which will serve as a partial control for the eye movement data from our ongoing/planned experiments involving Japanese speakers of English. The self-paced reading time data has provided strong evidence against a view suggesting that native speakers rely on structural heuristics (and not semantic plausibility) to make parsing decisions during language comprehension. Specifically, these experiments provide an alternate explanation for the results found in Staub, Foppolo, Donati, & Cecchetto (2018).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
The goal of this research is to collect eye movement/reading time data. While we were previously unable to collect eyetracking data to due to restrictions due to COVID19, we were able to resume data collection during 2023, and data collection is currently ongoing. We also collected online self-paced reading time data and sentence completion data from native speakers of English. This data which will serve as a partial control for the eye movement data from our ongoing/planned experiments involving Japanese speakers of English.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2024, we will continue to collect eye-tracking data from Japanese speakers of English, based on the originally planned experiments as well as ones designed in response to the results we obtained from our self-paced reading time experiments on native speakers of English.
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