2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Pedagogical Effects of Convergent Concordances : Semantic Restructuring of English Catenative Verb Constructions
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21720214
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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 | Hijiyama University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | イベントスキーマ / 学習者コーパス / コンコーダンス / 連鎖動詞構文 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study investigates the pedagogical effects of convergent concordances in promoting CEFR A2 level Japanese EFL learners semantic restructuring of English catenative verb constructions. A one-way ANOVA with repeated measures show that the Japanese EFL learners used a catenative verb construction, Perception & Cognition/SVO+ing after the instruction. Additionally, 4-gram analyses by Ant Conc 3.2.0.m.(2006) describe longitudinal phraseological units development in Japanese EFL learners 'interlanguage. The analyses also discover learners' interlanguage errors such as NP is look like Adj and there has NP.
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