2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Fundamental Study on Retention and Performance of English L2 Learners' Collocational Knowledge
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22720213
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima University (2011)
Nagoya University (2010) |
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Principal Investigator |
SAKAUE Tatsuya 広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 特任講師 (60512621)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | 第二言語習得 / コロケーション / 学習者コーパス / ライティング |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this research was to reveal how English L2 learners retain and use collocational knowledge. In 2010, for this purpose, a new real-time logging system was developed to record the writing process on the scale of milliseconds. From late 2010 through early 2011, using the logging system, the participants were then asked to write an essay about school education in one hour and the data were collected. The analysis was conducted from three aspects : the production process, production time, and produced expressions. The results confirm that L2 learners have and use collocational knowledge and indicate the collocations they used were processed as single whole units.
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