Building longitudial contact situation conversation corpus and it application for discourse study for Japanese language education

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26770180
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Kyoto University of Education
• Principal Investigator: Nakamata Naoki 京都教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (00598518)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 会話コーパス / 接触場面 / 話題別特徴語 / インテイク / 副詞 / TTR / LLR / 機能語

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, “Japan-China Skype Conversation Corpus” is built and published online. This corpus comprises a contact-situation conversation corpus of Japanese, containing 38 records of remote conversation activity on Skype between Jissen Women’s University in Tokyo and Hunan University in Zhangsha.
As as result of analysis, no difference is observed in size of vocabulary between native speaker and non-native speaker. However, in terms of part of speech, a large difference is observed in usage of adverbs. This shows that they are hard to acquire for learners.
An unique characteristic of this corpus is that the topic of conversation is assigned. Therefore, specific words for each topic are extracted. As a result, function words, which are not considered to depend on topic, are affected by topic actually: for example, time expression such as 'ta' or 'teiru' appear frequently in conversation of 'pop culture', not of 'eating.'

Free Research Field

日本語教育