2016 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Investigating a Learner Corpus of Computer-mediated Communication
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26580077
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| Research Institution | Gakushuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
MARCHAND Tim 学習院大学, 国際社会科学部, 准教授 (20645197)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
阿久津 純恵 東洋大学, ライフデザイン学部, 講師 (20460024)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | CMC / learner corpus / register / bigrams |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
(1) Completion of the learner corpus, with a total word count of 550,000 tokens. All the data has been treated and standardised. The learner data has also been POS-tagged.
(2) Completion of the corpus database, with profile data for each learner, and circumstantial data for each text in the corpus. The profile data includes standard learner variables in the field, and also some motivational measures. Initial analysis shows a strong correlation between the learners' orientation towards the news topic and length of written output.
(3) New register analysis of the learner and reference corpus employing principal components analysis with bigrams as a unit of analysis. This revealed stratification across the learner corpus, and a clear divergence from the reference corpus in terms of clausal phrasing.
(4) Ongoing results shared and discussed with scholars at conferences, and other experts in the field.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
Although the learner corpus is now finished, and a lot of analyses has been completed, the project is further behind than anticipated due to extra administrative duties imposed upon me by my faculty.
This means that the longitudinal analysis is yet to be undertaken.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
(1) Investigate the extent to which learner CMC develops over the course of an academic year with a longitudinal analysis of register variation.
(2) Present findings in a suitable forum.
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| Causes of Carryover |
As this project was delayed through faculty level administrative duties, not all aspects of the plan (including those incurring costs) were sufficiently completed this last year.
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| Expenditure Plan for Carryover Budget |
Although the completion of the analysis will not require much material support, I anticipate requiring supplies sufficient to cover the dissemination of the research results, as well as some new reference literature from the field:
1) Supplies: 50,000
2) Books: 35,000
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