2016 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Investigating Fluency and Dysfluency in Gendered Discourse
Project/Area Number |
15K02788
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Research Institution | Kyushu Institute of Technology |
Principal Investigator |
Long Robert 九州工業大学, 教養教育院, 准教授 (00284589)
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Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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Keywords | Hesitation / shyness / gender discussions / gender attitudes / Minimal responses / grammatical accuracy / fluency / dysfluency |
Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
For FY2017 two issues were studied, student attitude change towards gendered interactions, and the patterns of minimal responses in gendered interactions over three weeks. A paper “Exploring Japanese Student Attitude Change to Gendered Interactions” was presented in Kyoto at the (ICLMC, 2017), during March 25-27. A second presentation was entitled Talking Across the Gender Gap: Exploring Minimal Responses in Gendered L2 Interactions Over Three Weeks to be presented on May 4th, at the 2017 IAMC International Academic Multidisciplinary Conference. A journal article entitled “Delving into Dyfluency,” can be found in the May/June issue of “The Language Teacher.” I have updated genderfluency.com about how to teach fluency, as well as having videos and corpora which can be accessed.
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Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
There are two major corpora, Japanese University Student Corpus (JUSC), which has 108,137 words and has 61 transcripts, and the Longitudinal Japanese University Corpus (LJUSC), which is 71,431 words or 65 transcripts. A third corpus, Japanese student Corpus Advanced, has 16,230 words / 6 transcripts. I have presented at two conferences, and have one paper published, another one to be submitted. My website has videos as how fluency should be taught in the classroom. I have also finished data collection concerning same-sex and gendered interactions (for the paper to be submitted―JALT Journal), which shows some important differences.
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Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Two more conferences are planned for this year: The IISES conference in Florence, and the JALT International Conference in Japan concerning grammatical accuracy in spoken conversations. By next year, a factor analysis along with interviews concerning attitudes of Japanese about interacting with the opposite sex will be done. The aim of the interviews is to better understand the issues and problems that males and females have in talking with one another, and to better understand what issues that they do discuss whenever they are interacting with one another. The aim is to make specific recommendations as to how teachers and parents can structure and provide meaningful and varied gendered actions for their students and children.
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Remarks |
This website contains the videos of gendered discussions, corpora, papers, and videos of how to teach fluency in the classroom. Other resources can be found there as well.
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Research Products
(4 results)