2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Examining the Methods Employed to Analyze the Spoken Discourse of Japanese Learners of English: Characteristics of Discourse Analytic Measures
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19720141
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Tokiwa University |
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Principal Investigator |
KOIZUMI Rie Tokiwa University, 国際学部, 専任講師 (70433571)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | 英語 / 英語教育学 / 言語テスティング / 第二言語習得 |
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| Research Abstract |
For analyzing spoken transcribed discourses in English as a second language, discourse analytic measures have often been employed to specifically assess fluency, accuracy, syntactic complexity, and lexical complexity. Despite their frequent use in second language acquisition research, the characteristics of these measures and also which measures should be used in a certain context have not been examined. The current study aims to explore the characteristics of the discourse analytic measures from multiple perspectives. The results indicated three main findings. First, a measure that can consistently detect a change or a difference in a learner's proficiency is "the number of tokens per minute." Second, each measure is related to every other measure to some degree in a predictable manner, and each measure assesses a part of the speaking performance. Third, the same measure can be interpreted in a similar manner across tasks when the tasks involve self-introduction and picture description.
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[Book] 言語テスト:目標の到達と未到達2009
Author(s)
大友賢二, 中村洋一, 小泉利恵(編著), 柳田恵美子, 渡邊真由美, 飯村英樹(著)
Total Pages
69-81,120-129,134
Publisher
NPO法人英語運用能力評価協会(ELPA)
