| Project/Area Number |
22590477
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Medical sociology
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| Research Institution | University of Miyazaki |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SUZUKI Chizuko 長崎純心大学, 人文学部, 教授 (10123837)
ARAKI Tamao 宮崎県立看護大学, 看護学部, 講師 (20324220)
SAWAGUCHI Akira 宮崎大学, 医学部, 教授 (30336292)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
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| Keywords | 医学英語教育 / 学習者コーパス / 英語論文 / エラー分析 / 教授法開発 |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to both ground theory and establish effective teaching methods of academic writing for Japanese EFL (English as a Foreign Language), particularly EMP (English for Medical Purposes) learners, by creating a learner corpus database written by Japanese medical PhD students, and comparing it with an English native speaker corpus. We collected a small amount of learner data and compiled a small corpus database entitled: Students’ Abstracts of Medical Mock Experiment (SAME) corpus. The students were required to produce an English abstract of at least 200 words on a given mock medical experiment. The abstract was required to be written according to the IMRD (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussions) structure, but had to be finalized as a single meaningful, cohesive paragraph, not as separate sections. The topic of the experiment was a Helicobacter pylori infection and the outline of the experiment was briefly explained in Japanese. Each manuscript was collected and compiled electronically as a text file. The data was analyzed using the corpus software AntConc. We have presented the research results at two international conferences. The results indicated that 1) learners who have the ability to write grammatically correct sentences do not necessarily use stylistically appropriate or genre conscious expressions, and 2)students awareness of genre was not correlated to level of accuracy. The learners can be categorized roughly into four groups according to their levels of accuracy and genre awareness. We concluded that it would be too late to start teaching academic writing from a graduate level, and that Japanese learners should be encouraged to acquire basic academic writing skills at an earlier stage, that is, as undergraduates.
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