Preliminary investigation on the development of noda-form conversational materials for Japanese students

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K23331
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: :Education and related fields
• Research Institution: Fukui National College of Technology
• Principal Investigator: ICHIMURA Yoko 福井工業高等専門学校, 一般科目(人文系), 准教授 (00789373)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-08-30 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: ノダ形式 / 話し言葉 / 語用論的機能 / 日本語教育 / コーパス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study is conducted to systematically describe noda-forms that are difficult for Japanese language learners to learn, which eventually may lay necessary research foundation for future development of conversational teaching materials. Three main tasks were undertaken. First is a systematic description of noda-forms used by Japanese native speakers. Then, after identifying the most frequently used noda-forms e.g. 'nda-yone which can be 'a confirmation', 'asking for agreement', 'way to inform', etc., and summarizing their usage, the intonation of each usage in conversation was clarified through a survey of native speakers. Lastly, an investigation of the usage of the noda-form Japanese learners classified based on their Japanese levels was implemented using a public learner corpus.

Free Research Field

日本語教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、話し言葉で使用されるノダの複合形式（ノダ形式）の語用論的機能の解明と、日本語学習者のための会話教材の作成のための基礎的研究である。本研究の新規性として、①ノダに関する先行研究の知見を踏まえ、会話で頻用されるノダ形式を分析した点、②実際の会話コーパスを基にノダ形式の語用論的機能を分析、考察した点が挙げられる。当該形式は学習者の言語に翻訳することが困難である一方、日本語の会話で頻用される。本研究が使用頻度の高いノダ形式の語用論的機能を記述したことにより、今後日本語学習教材を作成するうえで知見を提供できたと考える。