| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this project was to investigate whether L2 intermediate writers viewed corpus referencing as a practical resource for solving writing-related language problems. Students completed a one-semester EFL writing course that included corpus search and analysis training and composed three essays, each of which was revised for lexical errors based on teacher feedback. Findings indicate that students believed the corpus to be an important tool to the writing process; namely, for referencing accurate collocations, for supplementing dictionary information, and for correcting certain error categories. However, many felt restricted in their ability to make the most of this technology due to difficulties related to computer literacy, time, and language proficiency. A continuation of this project is currently in progress to quantitatively assess the students’ rate of success with corpus-based error correction.
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