Development of resources for English learners with special reference to the cognitive linguistic concept of the network of vocabulary items and linguistic constructions

• Project/Area Number: 25870898
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Foreign language education; Cognitive science
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Hasebe Yoichiro 同志社大学, グローバル・コミュニケーション学部, 准教授 (90353135)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
• Keywords: 認知言語学 / 英語教育 / 語彙学習 / 構文学習 / 意味ネットワーク / Eラーニング / コーパス / 語彙リスト / 語彙リスト開発 / データベース開発

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aimed to develop a set of resources and methodologies that enable learners of English to improve their skills based on what they have already built up in their preceding learning activities. The research and development in accordance with the theories of cognitive linguistics and the usage based model of language successfully produced the following: 1) a list of linguistic constructions in English with example sentences that optimize the learners’ preexisting linguistic knowledge; 2) an web-based system called TED Corpus Search Engine (TCSE) that allows the learner to read and hear the words and phrases in the real context; 3) another web-based system utilizing a speech recognition engine which evaluates spoken English text input by the learner. These resources will promote a new way of learning English which focuses not only on vocabulary by itself but also on a complex network of linguistic constructions manifested in various forms in different contexts.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Design and Implementation of an Online Corpus of Presentation Transcripts of TED Talks (2015)
  • Author(s): Yoichiro Hasebe
  • Journal Title: Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences Volume: 198 Pages: 174-182
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.07.434
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Design and implementation of an online corpus of presentation transcripts of TED Talks (2015)
  • Author(s): Yoichiro Hasebe
  • Journal Title: Procedia Volume: 未定
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] オープンデータによる英語構文事例検索システムの可能性：TED Corpus Search Engineを例として (2016)
  • Author(s): 長谷部陽一郎
  • Organizer: 大学英語教育学会中部支部大会・シンポジウム「英語力向上のための多様なリソース活用の新展開」
  • Place of Presentation: 愛知県立大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-04
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 事態把握の参照点設定と構文の選択について： コーパス調査に基づく試論 (2016)
  • Author(s): 長谷部陽一郎
  • Organizer: 成蹊 CAPS プロジェクト第 4 回研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 成蹊大学
  • Year and Date: 2016-03-26
• [Presentation] Constructions and long-tailed distribution of their collexemes: A Look at the relationship between low-frequency words and constructional prototypes (2015)
  • Author(s): Yoichiro Hasebe
  • Organizer: The 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Northumbria University, England
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-20
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Design and Implementation of an Online Corpus of Presentation Transcripts of TED Talks (2015)
  • Author(s): Yoichiro Hasebe
  • Organizer: 7th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics
  • Place of Presentation: University of Valladolid, Spain
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-05 – 2015-03-07
• [Presentation] TED Corpus Search Engineを用いたコンテクスト重視の英語構文学習 (2015)
  • Author(s): 長谷部陽一郎
  • Organizer: コーパス×学習者ラウンドテーブル
  • Place of Presentation: 筑波大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-02-22
  • Invited
• [Presentation] コーパスから得られる頻度情報とプロトタイプ性について
  • Author(s): 長谷部陽一郎
  • Organizer: シンポジウム「コーパスと言語学」
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道大学
• [Presentation] コーパスとコロケーション―認知言語学的視点から―
  • Author(s): 長谷部陽一郎
  • Organizer: 同志社ことばの会
  • Place of Presentation: 同志社大学
• [Remarks] TED Corpus Search Engine (TCSE)
  • URL: http://yohasebe.com/tcse