Construction of communication grammar and re-design of the foundation of Chinese language teaching

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370669
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kansai University
• Principal Investigator: YAMAZAKI Naoki 関西大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (30230402)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAKANISHI Chika 愛知県立大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (50548592) ; NISHI Kaori 北九州市立大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (70390367) ; UEMURA Makiko 神田外語大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (70512383) ; SUZUKI Keika 釧路公立大学, 経済学部, 教授 (80404797)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 「外国語学習のめやす」 / コミュニケーション能力指標 / コミュニケーションの3モード / コミュニカティブタスク準拠文型リスト / 語用論的知識 / 社会言語学的観点 / 方略的言語使用 / 中国語教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The goal of this project is to develop and share the resources of “Communication Grammar”, which can associate the knowledge about the structure and use of Chinese language with “Communication Goals” for Communicative language teaching. For this purpose, we have carried out the following tasks: 1) setting almost 300 communicative tasks based on“Indications for Communicative Competence” denoted by “Foreign Language Curriculum Guidelines: A Proposal from Chinese and Korean Language Teachers”(The Japan Forum, 2013), 2) selecting language expressions including strategic language use needed for these tasks, 3) analyzing these expressions into sentence patterns and classifying them into 3 modes of communication (interpretive / presentational / interpersonal mode), 4) adding knowledge about pragmatics and socio-linguistic views on Chinese language to this “Sentence Pattern List”, 5) publishing the list on our web site (http://www2.itc.kansai-u.ac.jp/~ymzknk/kome/).

Free Research Field

中国語教育学・外国語教育学