Action-Oriented Approach to L2 Grammar Instruction: Canonical Constructions Instruction Lists Refinement

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K00720
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: Notohara Yoshiyuki 同志社大学, 文学部, 教授 (70300613)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 典型的な構文 / 時制・相・モダリティ / 語用論標識 / 間接発話行為 / 話し言葉コーパス / 教育文法

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study confirms association strengths between canonical schema　constructions　(CSCs), tense-aspect-modality (TAM) markers as illocutionary force indicating devices (IFIDs) and indirect speech acts (ISAs) within and out of CSCs through the SpokenBNC 2014 corpus. The results showed that ten canonical constructional meanings of CSCs with not only modality markers, but also tense, aspect, and semi-modality markers were metonymically related to frequently conventionalised ISAs emerged from CSCs in given contexts (e.g., the other two are bit thick (PRESENT STATES FOR EXPRESSING DISSATISFACTION)). Finally, based on the co-occurred relationships between three linguistic features （CSCs, TAM markers, and ISAs) in the interfaces between syntax-
semantics-pragmatics of CSCs, action-oriented approach to L2 grammar contents and instruction are newly explored in terms of both CSCs and ISAs.

Free Research Field

英語教育学・コーパス言語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の意義は、(1)最新の汎用英語母語話者話し言葉コーパスの調査結果をふまえ、①典型的な構文、②構文内に見られる発話内力表示表現として時制・相・モダリティ表現、③構文外に現れる間接発話行為　の３種の言語特徴の関連性を統計的に確認した点にある。また、(2)特に調査対象となる構文内に見られる発話内力表示表現の種類を増やし、用例観察の幅を広げ多角的に用例を観察、３つの言語特徴の関連性の強さと方向性までを精緻に確認した研究手法にある。さらに、(3)行動志向の英語教育における文法指導内容と文法指導法を、典型的な構文と間接発話行為双方の視点から模索した点にある。