2022 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Knowledge and acquisition of grammatical constructions in English as a Foreign Language
| Project/Area Number |
21K00661
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| Research Institution | Nippon Medical School |
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Principal Investigator |
KIRK STEVEN 日本医科大学, 医学部, 教授 (10794753)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
西川 純恵 日本医科大学, 医学部, 講師 (60373015)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | construction grammar / second language / repetition |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This study examines the acquisition of grammatical constructions in English as a second language, through repetition-based pedagogical activities, as measured with a grammatical priming task, administered before and after the pedagogical intervention. In the first year of the project, we investigated corpus data on verbs in the ditransitive construction and the caused motion construction to prepare the creation of the pre-task and post-task. We also use that research to develop the pedagogical treatment. In the second year of the project, we chose Inquisit 6 as a software tool to create the materials for the treatment and tests, and designed the pre-test, post-test, and treatment tasks to be used in the study. This was chosen in order to allow the tasks and treatment to be conducted online, so that problems with access to participants due to the COVID-19 pandemic could be overcome.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, recruiting participants for the study has proved difficult, so it was decided to implement an approach that could be conducted online using Inquisit 6.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In the first part of this coming year, we will conduct a pilot study of the materials developed for the grammatical priming pre-task and post-task, and the pedagogical intervention. In the second half of this year, we intend to recruit participants and conduct the main study.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to difficulties recruiting participants during the COVID-19 pandemic, the pilot study and main study, along with funds required for honorariums for participants will be carried forward.
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