2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study for Theory Construction on the Development of Second Language Processing Ability with an Emphasis on Transitional Probability
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24320105
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Partial Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 視線計測 / 学習者コーパス / 遷移確率 / 頻度効果 / 連語表現 / 眼球運動 / 多読 / 統計的学習 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, eye tracking experiments suggest that even English learners have a probabilistic knowledge of the order of sentence components in syntax. It is also confirmed that learners are sensitive to the naturalness and frequency of collocational expressions. Grammatical morpheme experiments confirm that learners are more strongly influenced by preceding forms than grammatical morphemes. Thus, to some extent, English learners are able to attain the processing abilities of syntax and collocations similar to those of native English speakers. In addition, an extensive reading experiment shows improvements in reading speed that seem to be due to the frequency effect of a large amount of input. As for the analysis of the learner corpus, it is confirmed that it is possible to observe the unique language uses of English learners by comparing the transition probabilities of collocational expressions.
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| Free Research Field |
第二言語習得論
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