The error analysis of Japanese learners' writing with a focus on metadiscourse markers

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370506
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Komazawa University
• Principal Investigator: Miki Nozomi 駒澤大学, 総合教育研究部, 准教授 (00632100)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: メタ談話標識 / L2 ライティング / 添削文 / 学習者コーパス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims to reveal why Japanese learners are not good at writing logically in English by finding out their systematic errors of metadiscourse markers and to make suggestions on teaching methods for writing. The result shows that English proof-readers corrected some metadiscourse markers overused by Japanese learners but didn't others, which indicates that corrective feedback on metadiscouse markers does not always work. This study stresses on corpus-based writing instructions for Japanese learners, leading to pedagogical suggestions.

Free Research Field

コーパス言語学