2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Creating a Research Program of Textual Analysis of Academic English for Supporting Academic Writing

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23652108
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	English linguistics
Research Institution	Kyoto Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	SAKIMURA Koji 京都工芸繊維大学, 工芸科学研究科, 教授 (50162326)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	FUKADA Chie 京都工芸繊維大学, 工芸科学研究科, 准教授 (70340891)
Research Collaborator	KONO Wataru 京都大学, 大学院・人間環境学研究科修士課程, 院生
Project Period (FY)	2011
Keywords	学術英語 / 論文テクスト / 研究者支援
Research Abstract	Our survey of 320 junior researchers indicates(1) that they are keenly aware of the need of getting their research results published in English in international journals etc.;(2) that instead of trying to retrain themselves attending educational programs(of writing academic papers etc.), they tend to apply their efforts to improving the quality of their products by obtaining external help from, for example, agencies specializing in English for academic purposes ; and(3) that the lack of organized support(including finances) within their institutions may leave them overloaded with peripheral activities of coping with a foreign language. Based on these findings, some suggestions for improvement were considered