2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Pragmatic index of EIL and its application to English Teaching: Developing English conversation competence of Japanese learners
| Project/Area Number |
22520595
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Tokai Gakuen University |
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Principal Investigator |
TSUDA Sanae 東海学園大学, 人文学部, 教授 (80082361)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MURATA Yasumi 名城大学, 人間学部, 教授 (70206340)
IWATA Yuko 東海大学, 外国語教育センター, 教授 (50147154)
OTSUKA Yoko 岐阜聖徳学園大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (10257545)
SHIGEMITSU Yuka 東京工芸大学, 工学部, 教授 (80178780)
OTANI Mami 京都女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (60435930)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 英語教育 / 異文化コミュニケーション / 語用指標 |
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| Research Abstract |
Japanese speakers with high English proficiency test scores do not always prove to be effective communicators in English. The purpose of this research is to verify a claim that the Japanese native speakers’ pragmatic transfer can negatively affect intercultural conversations in English. We first analyzed conversational data collected in Britain, the U.S.A and Australia to see if there is a common conversational style in the Inner Circle English speakers and concluded there is not much difference among them. By comparing the results with the Japanese conversational data collected in Japan, we found the differences between the speakers of the two languages in back channels, self-disclosure, question-answer sequences and topic development styles.
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