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Developing an empirically-derived academic phrasebank for L2 undergraduate learners

Research Project

Project/Area Number 21K00704
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
Research InstitutionKanazawa University

Principal Investigator

Murray Lewis  金沢大学, 外国語教育系, 講師 (60771152)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) Brown Dale  金沢大学, 外国語教育系, 准教授 (50781168)
Project Period (FY) 2021-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Discontinued (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
KeywordsAcademic writing / phrasal language / phrasal lists / EAP / Phrasebank / Phrasal lists / Student corpus / Collocations / Lexical bundles / Phrase frames
Outline of Research at the Start

This project aims to produce, and make widely available, a phrasebank which will help develop L2 undergraduate students’ use of phrases in academic writing. The phrasebank will be comprised of approximately 250 empirically derived useful phrases presented with examples/explanations of use, and be targeted towards and organized in terms of a 5-paragraph essay.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

In FY2022, the process of further refining the phrasal items identified for inclusion through corpus interrogation in the initial stages continued, with instructor ratings applied to each of the items. Items remaining after analysis of the ratings comprised the content of the phrasebank.

As a means of presenting the remaining phrasal items in an accessible and useful manner, they were categorized and presented according to function. An example of each item, showing it in context and drawn from the EAP student corpus, was also provided. The phrasebank was then printed and distributed to all students during the EAP IV course in the latter half of the academic year.

Report

(2 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2022 2021

All Presentation (1 results) Funded Workshop (2 results)

  • [Presentation] Developing a Phrasebank: A Critical Examination of Phrasal Lists2021

    • Author(s)
      Lewis Murray & Dale Brown
    • Organizer
      JALT 2021
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Funded Workshop] “Developing a Phrasebank for a Specific L2 Context.” JALT Conference, Fukuoka2022

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Funded Workshop] “Examining EAP Instructor Ratings of Corpus-Derived Academic Written Phrases.” Hiroshima Language Research Forum (Online)2022

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2021-04-28   Modified: 2023-12-25  

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