2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Pragmatic Ability of Japanese Learners of English : Conversation Analysis of Roleplays
| Project/Area Number |
16520363
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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 |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
KITE Yuriko Kansai University, Institute of Foreign Language Education and Research, Professor, 外国語教育研究機構, 教授 (00309204)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ROSS Stephen J. Kwansei Gakuin University, School of Policy Studies, Professor, 総合政策学部, 教授 (20278782)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | SLA Method / conversation analysis / meta-pragmatics / roleplay / assessment / authenticity |
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| Research Abstract |
What is the ability of Japanese adult users/learners of English? This project attempts to investigate the communicative competence of Japanese adults, as he or she will engage in a ‘speaking test role play' with a native speaker of English. The focus is to investigate the Japanese users'/learners' pragmatic competence (ability to use a language as in how to communicate), and not their grammatical competence (ability of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation).
The project has two objectives. One is to investigate the pragmatic ability of Japanese adults learners/users of English based on a conversational analysis framework. How they are able to carry on a roleplay task will be described. We found, for example, that lower level proficiency learners manage a task showing pragmatic ability, which was not reported before. Only a detailed transcription of a turn-to-turn analysis reveals this finding. The second focus is to explore roleplays as data collection procedure and measurement in interlanguage pragmatics. Roleplays are compared with other methods and its validity as an assessment in area of interlanguage pragmatics was examined.
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