2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study of Application of Universal Grammar UG to English Education
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10680263
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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 |
教科教育
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| Research Institution | Nara University of Education (2000-2001)
Shizuoka University (1998-1999) |
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Principal Investigator |
FUNAKI Michio Nara University of Education, Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (00022210)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Keywords | universal grammar / semantic role / word order / semantic unit / task based learning / language commonality / case grammar / cognitive approach |
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| Research Abstract |
Universal grammar claims that Japanese and English basic structures are similar to each other. I claim that Japanese learners of English do not have to learn all of English from the viewpoints of UG and that they have to learn different aspects between Japanese and English.
I referred to semantic units or semantic roles, word orders, grammatical categories as universal aspects in this report. Application of UG to English education is to get the learners to know language commonality through conscious raising since they do not recognize that there is similarity among English and Japanese as they have acquired mother tongue unconsciously. Universal grammar will help to facilitate English learning. Our teaching should lead the learners to the conscious raising of language commonality and get them to learn the English differences from Japanese on a basis of UG.
I proposed the method of generating English sentences in terms of semantic roles. I referred to identification of semantic roles and recognition of word orders, and then proposed how to find out the trigger of applying grammatical rides to the inputs the learners have generated. What is more, I proposed and illustrated the application of UG method to task based learning.
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