Development of the Interactive Method for Foreign Language Learning Based on Linguistic Knowledge Extracted from the Web Corpus

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520668
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: Hajime Nozawa 京都外国語大学, 外国語学部, 講師 (30450696)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KAWAHARA Daisuke 京都大学, 情報学研究科, 准教授 (10450694) ; LEE Jae-ho 筑波大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (20450695)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 教育工学 / 言語学 / 情報工学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted a survey with a large scale English newspaper corpus to see what types of nouns are frequently used for various verbs as their subjects and objects, and defined the patterns of the co-occurring verbs and nouns extracted from the corpus as the grammatical knowledge which learners of English need to acquire to master the use of verbs. We created grammatical exercises for learners which are more natural and consistent with encyclopedic knowledge, by manually editing the examples of such usages taken from the corpus. We also developed a gamelike e-learning system on which learners can interactively do the exercises.

Free Research Field

認知言語学