Empirical Studies on Event Schema-based Pedagogical Semantic Tag Sets

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520682
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: NOTOHARA Yoshiyuki 同志社大学, 文学部, 准教授 (70300613)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: イベントスキーマ / 文型 / 典型性 / 教育的意味タグ / 教科書コーパス / 頻度効果

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigates into three issues on pedagogical semantic tags through corpus-based studies: (1) whether Radden & Driven (2007)’s eleven constructions related to canonical event schemata are actually canonical in the spoken corpus, (2) how canonical constructions are distributed in the junior high school textbook corpus, (3) whether verbs of constructions are highly representative in the ICE-GB2. Through these studies, it could be said that thirteen canonical constructions and their representative verbs ( e.g., States/SVC (be)) are empirically confirmed. Frequency distributions of thirteen canonical constructions in English textbook corpus are actually described; furthermore, frequency effects on Japanese EFL learners’ interlanguage development are estimated. Finally, pedagogical and academic significances of thirteen constructions as pedagogical semantic tags for further textbook and learner corpus studies in applied linguistics are summarised.

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英語教育学、コーパス言語学