| Project/Area Number |
21K00669
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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 02100:Foreign language education-related
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| Research Institution | Eikei University of Hiroshima (2022-2023)
Hiroshima Jogakuin University (2021) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
CLENTON JONATHAN 広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(総), 准教授 (80762434)
ブルックス ギャビン 京都産業大学, 外国語学部, 講師 (10610818)
Fraser Simon 広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 教授 (10403510)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | vocabulary / lexical diversity / multi word units / productive vocabulary / spoken fluency / multiword units / IELTS / lexical density / pedagogic word-lists / corpus |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
The aim of the project is to produce a large-scale corpus of student generated texts of academic English, in order to understand the written and spoken vocabulary requirements of different IELTS levels. Participants will number over 1400 L2 post-graduates studying at a large UK university.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project, in collaboration with Queen Mary University of London, created a database of over 200 L2 learners written and spoken vocabulary and analysed the data in two main ways. One part of the analysis focused on students written essays, using them to validate 6 measures of lexical diversity. As well as finding that all the measures (to varying degrees) related to IELTS proficiency scores, another finding was that it is important from a methodological perspective to be clear on how the words are counted: either as lemmas or flemmas. The other part of this project focused on students spoken data (seminar discussions) to see how students use of multi-word-units affected their fluency. The findings demonstrate that students who have higher IELTS spoken grades are also the students that are making effective use of multi-word-units. As well as looking at collocations (2 word units) this part of the project extended previous studies by exploring 3, 4 and 5 word units.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
大学の一部または全部を海外で学ぶ日本人学生の数を増やすことは、日本の労働力をグローバル市場でより有能なものにするという文部科学省の目標に役立つ。海外留学を希望する日本人学生が大学に入学するためには、IELTSなどの英語能力試験を受験する必要がある。このプロジェクトの研究により、IELTSの各レベル（レベル5.5～7.5）で必要とされる生産的語彙をより正確に理解することができ、また話し言葉と書き言葉を正確に測定する方法論を開発することができました。
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