2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Factors in the path from native language to the acquisition of second language proficiency
| Project/Area Number |
19K00609
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| Research Institution | Future University-Hakodate |
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Principal Investigator |
MIYAMOTO EDSON・T 公立はこだて未来大学, システム情報科学部, 教授 (60335479)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | sentence / second language / reading / Thai / English / Japanese / working memory |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Because of the ongoing pandemic, experiments on number agreement in English as a second language have been postponed. Trips to collect data abroad had to be cancelled. Data collection in Japan has also been halted.
Until more data can be collected from native Chinese speakers in Taiwan, the project will shift to work on native Thai speakers in collaboration with Teeranoot Siriwittayakorn, a lecturer at Chiang Mai University. The goal is to create instruments to measure basic individual variations in reading and working memory in native Thai speakers. These will be used to gauge native Thai speakers' reading patterns in their native languages and take them into consideration when measuring their reading trends in English as a second language.
Some analyses have been conducted using past data. Preliminary results suggest that diacritics (e.g., those representing tone markers) that are added to a character need to be taken into consideration to better predict reading-time latencies in the Thai language.
Moreover, new experiments have received approval from the Institutional Review Board at Chiang Mai University, and we have started collecting preliminary data online. Based on these results, the items for the main experiments will be adjusted and data collection should start soon after.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
Because of the ongoing pandemic, the original experiments have been postponed. Trips to collect data abroad and in Japan had to be cancelled. Alternative plans are underway in Thailand.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The project has been shifted to concentrate on native Thai speakers in collaboration with Teeranoot Siriwittayakorn, a lecturer at Chiang Mai University. The goal is to create instruments to measure basic individual variations in reading and working memory in native Thai speakers. New experiments have received approval from the Institutional Review Board at Chiang Mai University, and we have started collecting preliminary data online. Based on the results, trips to collect data on-site at Chiang Mai University will be scheduled as soon as possible.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Because of the pandemic, trips abroad and in Japan had to be cancelled. The situation allowing, trips will be re-scheduled for the 2022 fiscal year
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