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

Research Project

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
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000) Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords	メタ談話標識 / L2 ライティング / 添削文 / 学習者コーパス / リライティング / メタ談話標識のエラー
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.

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