| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HARADA Yasunari Waseda University, School of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (80189711)
TANABE Yoji Waseda University, School of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (10063562)
KOIKE Ikuo Meikai University, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (70051266)
OHYA Masanori Waseda University, School of Education, Assistant Professor, 教育学部, 助手 (60318748)
SAITO Toshiharu Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering, Associate Professor, 助教授 (40259833)
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research is to develop digitized teaching materials for oral production among junior high school, high school and university students. In order to do this, we have collected not only oral production data, but also diary data, essay data, e-mail data, computer mediated communication data and digitized all the data with part-of-speech annotation. We have called these corpora, 'Waseda Learner Corpora of English.' We also analyzed the textbook the learners learned, in order to see the relationships between input and output. Some of our experimental works also focussed on 'chunks' which are supposed to be internalized in the interlanguage system each learner is assumed to possess.
On the basis of our corpora analysis, we have found that Japanese learners have a very limited range of sentence patterns and chunks, particularly in the area of speech functions such as thanking, apologizing, refusing, offering and requesting. For this reason, digitized teaching materials provide the remedial materials to instruct the weaknesses of our learners of English. The teaching materials are uploaded on http : // 163.47.27.25/. This is going to be supplemented with more extensive and richer materials this year. Most of the digitized materials adopt Common Gateway Interface (CGI) and cover grammar drills, usage explanations, intonation exercises and pragmatic drills.
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