Developing Teaching Materials for Enhancing the Acquisition ofUnaccusative Verbs by Japanese Learners of English

• Project/Area Number: 22520585
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Tokyo College of Music
• Principal Investigator: OWADA Kazuharu 東京音楽大学, 音楽学部, 准教授 (00288036)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MUEHLEISEN Victoria 早稲田大学, 国際教養学部, 准教授 (70277804) ; TSUSTUI Eiichiro 広島国際大学, 薬学部, 講師 (20386733)
• Project Period (FY): 2010 – 2012
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 教育工学 / 教材・教育メディア一般 / 自動詞 / アニメーション / 教材開発 / 学習者コーパス / 非対格動詞 / 教科書コーパス

Research Abstract

Three major results were obtained. First, a large-scale corpusanalysis revealed that even advanced Japanese English learners (JELs) do producepassivized unaccusatives. Second, an animation-based multiple choice test indicted thatproviding one context for

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Contextual Factors Affecting JapaneseEnglish Learners' Use of UnaccusativeVerbs (2012)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada and Eiichiro Tsutsui
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 17thConference of Pan-Pacific Associationof Applied Linguistics Volume: 17 Pages: 61-62
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Contextual Factors Affecting Japanese English Learners' Use of Unaccusative Verbs (2012)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada, Eiichiro Tsutsui
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 17th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics Volume: 17 Pages: 61-62
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Integrating Educational Methods and Technology : Its Effects and Evaluation (2012)
  • Author(s): Michiko Nakano, Yusuke Kondo, Kazuharu Owada, Norifumi Ueda
  • Journal Title: 大学英語教育学会第51回記念国際大会論文集 Volume: 51 Pages: 79-86
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] English Language Education as a Lingua Franca in Asia (2012)
  • Author(s): Michiko Nakano, Yusuke Kondo, Kazuharu Owada, Norifumi Ueda, Satoshi Yoshida
  • Journal Title: Asian Conference on Education 2012 Official Conference Proceedings Volume: 4 Pages: 1368-1389
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Grammatical andungrammatical uses of intransitiveverbs in essays written by Japaneselearners of English: A large-scalecorpus analysis (2011)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada, Hajime Tsubaki,Eiichiro Tsutsui and Victoria Muehleisen
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the16th Conference of Pan-PacificAssociation of Applied Linguistics Volume: 16 Pages: 329-330
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Grammatical and ungrammatical uses of intransitive verbs in essays written by Japanese learners of English : A large-scale corpus analysis (2011)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada, Hajime Tsubaki, Eiichiro Tsutsui, Victoria Muehleisen
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, pp.329-330 Volume: 15 Pages: 329-330
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Asynchronous Written Online Interaction among Non-Native Speakers of English (2011)
  • Author(s): Hikyoung Lee, Kazuharu Owada
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics Volume: 15 Pages: 89-90
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] JACET-ICT Survey and Research Committee Special Symposium : A Study of On-line and Face-to-Face Interactions and CEFR-Based Certificates (2011)
  • Author(s): Michiko Nakano, Kazuharu Owada, Norifumi Ueda, Masanori Oya, Eiichiro Tsutsui, Yusuke Kondo
  • Journal Title: 大学英語教育学会第50回記念国際大会論文集 Volume: 25 Pages: 118-125
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Verb patterns ofintransitive verbs used in junior andsenior high school English textbooksin Japan: A corpus analysis (2010)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada, Hajime Tsubaki andMichiko Nakano
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 15th Conference ofPan-Pacific Association of AppliedLinguistics Volume: 15 Pages: 491-494
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The relationshipbetween the correctly-usedunaccusative verbs produced byJapanese English learners and theirEnglish proficiency: A corpus analysis (2010)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada, Hajime Tsubaki, andVictoria Muehleisen
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 15th Conference ofPan-Pacific Association of AppliedLinguistics Volume: 15 Pages: 495-499
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Verb patterns of intransitive verbs used in junior and senior high school English textbooks in Japan : A corpus analysis (2010)
  • Author(s): 大和田和治
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics Volume: 15 Pages: 491-494
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The relationship between the correctly-used unaccusative verbs produced by Japanese English learners and their English proficiency : A corpus analysis (2010)
  • Author(s): 大和田和治
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 15th Conference of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics Volume: 15 Pages: 495-499
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Japanese English learners'preferences for inchoative andcausative uses of English verbs incontext using animation (2013)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada and Eiichiro Tsutsui
  • Organizer: InternationalConference on Foreign LanguageLearning and Teaching
  • Place of Presentation: The Ambassador Hotel Bangkok
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-16
• [Presentation] Japanese English Learners' Preferences for Inchoative and Causative Uses of English Verbs in Context Using Animation (2013)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada, Eiichiro Tsutsui
  • Organizer: International Conference on Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
  • Place of Presentation: The Ambassador Hotel Bangkok、タイ
  • Year and Date: 2013-03-16
• [Presentation] 日本人大学生のアジアの大学生に対する異文化理解-英語を媒介とした異文化交流クラスにおける学習効果測定を目指して (2012)
  • Author(s): 大和田和治、上田倫史、吉田諭史
  • Organizer: 日本「アジア英語」学会
  • Place of Presentation: 文京学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2012-12-15
• [Presentation] English Language Education as a Lingua Franca in Asia (2012)
  • Author(s): Michiko Nakano, Yusuke Kondo, Kazuharu Owada, Norifumi Ueda, Satoshi Yoshida
  • Organizer: Asian Conference on Education 2012
  • Place of Presentation: 大阪ラマダホテル
  • Year and Date: 2012-10-27
• [Presentation] Integrating Educational Methods and Technology : Its Effects and Evaluation (2012)
  • Author(s): Michiko Nakano, Yusuke Kondo, Kazuharu Owada, Norifumi Ueda
  • Organizer: 大学英語教育学会
  • Place of Presentation: 愛知県立大学
  • Year and Date: 2012-09-01
• [Presentation] Contextual Factors Affecting Japanese English Learners' Use of Unaccusative Verbs (2012)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada, Eiichiro Tsutsui
  • Organizer: Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: Wenjin Hotel、中国
  • Year and Date: 2012-08-22
• [Presentation] JACET-ICT Survey and Research Committee Special Symposium : A Study of On-line and Face-to-Face Interactions and CEFR-Based Certificates (2011)
  • Author(s): Michiko Nakano, Yusuke Kondo, Kazuharu Owada, Norifumi Ueda
  • Organizer: 大学英語教育学会
  • Place of Presentation: 西南学院大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-09-02
• [Presentation] Verb patterns ofintransitive verbs used in a corpus ofessays produced by Japanese learnersof English (2011)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada
  • Organizer: World Congress of AppliedLinguistics
  • Place of Presentation: 北京外国語大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-25
• [Presentation] Verb patterns of intransitive verbs used in a corpus of essays produced by Japanese learners of English (2011)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada, Hajime Tsubaki
  • Organizer: World Congress of Applied Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: 北京外国語大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-25
• [Presentation] Asynchronous Written Online Interaction among Non-Native Speakers of English (2011)
  • Author(s): Hikyoung Lee, Kazuharu Owada
  • Organizer: Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: 香港中文大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-11
• [Presentation] Grammatical and ungrammatical uses of intransitive verbs in essays written by Japanese learners of English : A large-scale corpus analysis (2011)
  • Author(s): Kazuharu Owada, Hajime Tsubaki, Eiichiro Tsutsui, Victoria Muehleisen
  • Organizer: Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: 香港中文大学
  • Year and Date: 2011-08-10
• [Presentation] Verb patterns of intransitive verbs used in junior and senior high school English textbooks in Japan : A corpus analysis (2010)
  • Author(s): 大和田和治
  • Organizer: Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: 韓国・ハンヤン女子大学
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-19
• [Presentation] The relationship between the correctly-used unaccusative verbs produced by Japanese English learners and their English proficiency : A corpus analysis (2010)
  • Author(s): 大和田和治
  • Organizer: Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: 韓国・ハンヤン女子大学
  • Year and Date: 2010-08-19
• [Remarks]
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