A Japanese Lower Secondary School English Learner Corpus and its Applications

The aim of this PhD research is to investigate how Japanese EFL learners could output English in writing while learning it through Teacher Talk, English in English classes for three years from first year to third year of a lower secondary school. Every English class had as its aim a student-centered lesson in which there were such activities as pair work and group work for the sake of collaborative learning. In the course of this research, a learner corpus was built, based on a writing task lasting 20 minutes at the end of each year carried out without the use of dictionary. In addition, it was annotated according to POS tags using CLAWS 7 for analyzing in detail parts of speech. Moreover, this research used a new tag set developed specifically for this corpus in order to analyze the raw data in a much more detailed fashion than would have been possible only using CLAWS 7, especially when focusing on adjectives, adverbs, verbs and prepositions. The analysis of this learner corpus was carried out through multiple analyses, including quantitative analyses, qualitative analyses and content analyses. This longitudinal-research investigates Japanese EFL Learner's developmental language use over three years.

英語

32636乙第37号

博士(英語学)

2018-03-22

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