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Statistical Analyses of Academic English in Medical, Pharmacological and Dental Fields to Help Japanese Researchers in Presenting Papers

Research Project

Project/Area Number 24590622
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Medical sociology
Research InstitutionFukui Prefectural University

Principal Investigator

OHTAKE Hiroshi  福井県立大学, 学術教養センター, 教授 (20149925)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) UGAWA Yoshihiro  宮城教育大学, 環境教育実践教育センター, 教授 (20232803)
MORREN Brian  宮城教育大学, 環境教育実践教育センター, 教授 (20244519)
KAWAMOTO Takeshi  広島大学, 医歯薬保健学研究院, 助教 (50224861)
KANEKO Shuji  京都大学, 薬学研究科(研究院), 教授 (60177516)
TAKEKOSHI Masataka  東海大学, 医学部, 講師 (80221373)
TAKEUCHI Hiroaki  静岡大学, 理学(系)研究科, 教授 (90216854)
Project Period (FY) 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥5,460,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,260,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Keywordsライフサイエンス英語 / コーパス / コンコーダンス / 口演英語 / 論文英語
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this research was to analyze English sentences produced by Japanese researchers with the goal of shedding light on common problems, and to help researchers improve their English for presentations. It is not uncommon for native Japanese speakers to produce unnatural English sentences, even if those sentences are correct in terms of grammar and vocabulary. To make the trouble spots clearer, three corpora were compiled; one consisted of academic written English by native English researchers, the second was spoken English by native English speakers and the third was academic written English by Japanese researchers. By analyzing each corpus and comparing the results, Japanese researchers were found to generally lack a sense of distinction between written English and spoken English, which leads to their inclination to overuse basic English verbs in academic writing when words originating from Greek or Latin are generally preferred.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • 2012 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (13 results)

All 2015 2014 2013 2012

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) Book (5 results)

  • [Journal Article] Written and Spoken Academic English in Japan --- Some Areas of Concern ---2015

    • Author(s)
      William T. MacDonald, Hiroshi Ohtake, Takeshi Kawamoto
    • Journal Title

      FPU Journal

      Volume: 44 Pages: 1-24

    • NAID

      120005556213

    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Finding Every Medical Term by Life Science Dictionary for MedNLP2013

    • Author(s)
      Shuji Kaneko, Nobuyuki Fujita, Hiroshi Ohtake
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Medical and Healthcare Fields

      Volume: 1 Pages: 23-26

    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] English Collocation Learning through Corpus Data -- On-line Concordance and Statistical Information --2012

    • Author(s)
      Hiroshi Ohtake, Nobuyuki Fujita, Takeshi Kawamoto, Yoshihiro Ugawa, Brian Morren, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Masataka Takekoshi, Shuji Kaneko
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2012

      Volume: 2012 Pages: 1544-1549

    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 生命科学論文英語における名詞と前置詞・冠詞の親和性の解析2014

    • Author(s)
      河本 健、藤田信之、 鵜川義弘、 竹内浩昭、 竹腰正隆、金子周司、大武博
    • Organizer
      日本医学英語教育学会第17回学術集会
    • Place of Presentation
      東京ガーデンパレス
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-19 – 2014-07-20
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Finding Specific Medical Terms Using the Life Science Dictionary for MedNLP2013

    • Author(s)
      Shuji Kaneko, Nobuyuki Fujita, Hiroshi Ohtake
    • Organizer
      MedNLP-WS
    • Place of Presentation
      名古屋国際会議場
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Life Science Dictionary: Collocational Analysis of Life Science English2013

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi Kawamoto, Hiroshi Ohtake, Nobuyuki Fujita, Yoshihiro Ugawa, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Masataka Takekoshi, Shuji Kaneko
    • Organizer
      第46 回広島大学歯学会総会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島大学
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Life Science Dictionary: collocational analyses of life science English2012

    • Author(s)
      Takeshi Kawamoto, Hiroshi Ohtake, Nobuyuki Fujita, Yoshihiro Ugawa, Hiro-aki Takeuchi, Masataka Takekoshi, Shuji Kaneko
    • Organizer
      第45回広島大学歯学会総会
    • Place of Presentation
      広島大学
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] English Collocation Learning through Corpus Data-- On-line Concordance and Statistical Information --2012

    • Author(s)
      Hiroshi Ohtake, Nobuyuki Fujita, Takeshi Kawamoto, Yoshihiro Ugawa, Brian Morren, Hiroaki Takeuchi, Masataka Takekoshi, Shuji Kaneko
    • Organizer
      IADIS International Conference e-Learning
    • Place of Presentation
      Denver, U.S.A.
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report
  • [Book] ライフサイエンス辞書英語共起表現検索の活用法2動詞編2014

    • Author(s)
      河本健
    • Total Pages
      154
    • Publisher
      Kindle
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] ライフサイエンス辞書英語共起表現検索の活用法2動詞編2014

    • Author(s)
      河本 健
    • Total Pages
      154
    • Publisher
      Amazon
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] プレゼン英語動詞使い分け辞典2013

    • Author(s)
      河本 健、 大武 博
    • Total Pages
      422
    • Publisher
      Amazon
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] ライフサイエンス辞書英語共起表現検索の活用法1概略編2013

    • Author(s)
      河本 健
    • Total Pages
      45
    • Publisher
      Amazon
    • Related Report
      2013 Research-status Report
  • [Book] サイエンス動詞使い分け辞典2012

    • Author(s)
      河本健,大武博
    • Total Pages
      733
    • Publisher
      羊土社
    • Related Report
      2012 Research-status Report

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Published: 2013-05-31   Modified: 2019-07-29  

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