2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Building and analyzing an English/Japanese comparable corpus to seek pedagogical insights
| Project/Area Number |
23520481
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima Shudo University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKEI Mitsuko 広島修道大学, 法学部, 教授 (80412287)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YOSHIDA Etsuko 三重大学, 人文学部, 教授 (00240276)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | コーパス / 談話分析 / 英語教育 / 日本語教育 |
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| Research Abstract |
In this collaborative research between Japanese and U.S. universities, we built and analyzed a comparable corpus which consists of four types of sub-corpora: English learner (EL), English native speaker (ENS), Japanese learner (JL) and Japanese native speaker (JNS). The goal was to increase discourse-level awareness with a focus on entity coherence. The corpus analysis results, within the framework of Centering Theory (Grosz et al., 1995), provided us with some pedagogical insights that teachers can utilize back in the EFL/JFL classrooms. These include similarities and differences between the two languages and learner-specific tendencies, in terms of transition types of a focused entity called CENTER and their relation to CENTER form choices (e.g., nouns, pronouns).
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