2023 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Extended discourse in Japanese learners of English: From the perspective of oral and written narratives
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18K00789
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| Research Institution | Meikai University |
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Principal Investigator |
中邑 啓子 明海大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20449044)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | oral narrative / written narrative / spoken discourse / written discourse / extended discourse / Japanese learners / English learners / elicited narratives |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The purpose of this project is to examine the acquisition of extended discourse skills in Japanese learners of English by studying oral and written narratives. In the first five years of the project (FY2018-FY2022), elicited narratives of two types (i.e., Frog Stories and Balloon Stories) were collected from Japanese university students at three universities and three different proficiency levels. Comparisons were made with data gathered in earlier studies from native speakers of Japanese and English as well as Japanese-English bilingual speakers (e.g., 1990, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014). The narratives were analyzed from the perspective of affect and evaluation, expression of motion events, and narrative organization (e.g., referential strategies).
In FY2023, data collection of oral narratives which were difficult to collect during the years of Covid-19, was completed. Stories were collected from Japanese learners of English in both the classroom and online. Transcription of both oral and written data has been completed. Data analysis has also completed, looking at differences in narratives (e.g., referential structure, motion expressions) created by Japanese L2 learners of English, also considering proficiency level. The extensive narrative data will be organized and made public in a narrative database.
In addition, in FY2023, results from this project have appeared in oral presentations and a publication (in combination with data collected in an ongoing KAKENHI Grant-in_Aid for Scientific Research project JP22K00688).
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| Remarks |
Keiko Nakamura (ResearchMap)
https://researchmap.jp/kei-nakamura83/
Publications will be uploaded to the Research Map page.
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