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2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Using Corpora for Promoting Student Self-Learning in English Education

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14510557
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionRitsumeikan University (2003-2004)
Tezukayama University (2002)

Principal Investigator

UMESAKI Atsuko  Ritsumeikan University, College of Policy Science, Professor, 政策科学部, 教授 (20269963)

Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2004
Keywordscorpus / English education / ESP / corpora / stress shift / Lancaster / IBM Spoken English Corpus / British National Corpus
Research Abstract

Computer corpora, large bodies of spoken and written texts, have been used intensively since 1990 for linguistic studies and great achievements have been made. However, there has been little practical application of corpora in the English-Language Teaching (ELT) classroom. The aim of the present study is to investigate effective ways of using corpora in English education.
Objectives and goals for implementing the use of corpora in the ELT classroom were considered. Corpora are good resources for providing self-access to examples of actually spoken and written English. As a long-term goal, it was proposed that students be encouraged to use both dictionaries and corpora in learning English, especially in writing English, without the help of teachers. The proposed major specific objectives were that students learn frequently-used expressions by searching examples in corpora, and that they be given opportunities to infer some rules in English from the examples.
The procedure for using the British National Corpus was developed in reading and listening classes. The corpus was searched to find examples of words and phrases which were not listed in the dictionary, and opportunity given for inferring the meaning of them from the examples. Linguistic phenomena, such as differences in spelling and lexis between British and American English, were taught by the use of the Brown, LOB, Frown and FLOB corpora. In teaching prosodic features, such as the relationship of falling tone and 'sentence' ending, and stress shift, students were instructed to infer rules from examples in the Lancaster-IBM Spoken English Corpus.
For teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP), expressions used in research papers were examined, and methods for teaching the writing of abstracts were also proposed, based on the findings.

  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All 2005 2003 2002

All Journal Article (10 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] 英語の授業におけるコーパスの利用2005

    • Author(s)
      梅咲 敦子
    • Journal Title

      立命館言語文化研究 16・4

      Pages: 115-145

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] コーパスにみるby the wayの使用と機能2005

    • Author(s)
      梅咲 敦子
    • Journal Title

      八木克正教授還暦記念論文集 (印刷中)(仮題)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Using Corpora in the ELT Classroom (in Japanese)2005

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Umesaki
    • Journal Title

      Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture 16(4)

      Pages: 115-145

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] A Corpus-Based Study of by the way: its use and functions (in Japanese)2005

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Umesaki
    • Journal Title

      A Collection of Research Papers in Commemoration of the 60th Birthday of Professor Katsumasa Yagi (in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] コーパスで遊んでみませんか?2003

    • Author(s)
      梅咲 敦子
    • Journal Title

      英語教育 52・5

      Pages: 22-23

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] コーパスを現代英語研究の共時的研究指導に生かす2003

    • Author(s)
      梅咲 敦子
    • Journal Title

      英語コーパス研究 10

      Pages: 265-287

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Let's Play with Corpora (in Japanese)2003

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Umesaki
    • Journal Title

      The English Teachers'Magazine 52(5)

      Pages: 22-23

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Education in English Linguistics Using Corpora (in Japanese)2003

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Furuta Umesaki
    • Journal Title

      English Corpus Studies 10

      Pages: 265-287

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Linguistic Approaches to ESP2002

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Furuta UMESAKI
    • Journal Title

      JACET Summer Seminar Proceedings : New Perspectives in ESP 2

      Pages: 9-17

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Linguistic Approaches to ESP2002

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Furuta Umesaki
    • Journal Title

      JACET Summer Seminar Proceedings 2: New Perspectives in ESP

      Pages: 9-17

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] 英語コーパス言語学-基礎と実践-(改訂新版)2005

    • Author(s)
      齊藤俊雄, 中村純作, 赤野一郎(編)(梅咲敦子他18名共著)
    • Total Pages
      325(21-48)
    • Publisher
      研究社出版
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Linguistic Approaches to ESP (A Booklet for the 30^<th> JACET Summer Seminar : New Perspectives on ESP)2002

    • Author(s)
      Atsuko Furuta UMESAKI
    • Total Pages
      76
    • Publisher
      Self-Binding
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より

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Published: 2006-07-11  

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