Corpus-Construction of Spoken English and its Analysis-- For the Improvement of English Language Education for Communicative Purposes

我很自豪地报告，我已经建立了一个口语语料库，包括约11，000，000字，但不幸的是，这个语料库将不会提供给公众使用，因为版权问题。我广泛使用了这个语料库，并在期刊和会议上公布了各种关于英语口语的研究成果。在研究过程中，我发现，教科书和词典在对自然口语或自然情景下自然说出的英语的描述和分析方面还有待改进。对英语的分析，特别是在这个国家，长期以来都是以书面材料为基础的（“英语会话”和“英语交际”课的教科书提供口语材料，但它们没有被用作语言分析材料的重要来源），因此，材料本身以及对这些材料进行语言分析的结果以语法的形式呈现给学生，教科书和词典主要由书面材料组成。鉴于我国英语语言教育的现状，口语语料库是研究英语语言教育的必要工具，也是教材向口语化转变的必要手段。“持续而广泛的研究使我得出了两个主要发现，（1）英语口语受不同的规则支配，这些规则在书面英语中找不到-接近性和线性等。(2)许多教科书和英日词典中的规则与英语口语语料库中的语料不相吻合。此外，一些常用的口语表达还没有被收入教科书和词典，因此，本研究者相信，这一语料库将为语篇和会话分析以及话语标记语提供非常重要的材料。

I am proud to report that I have constructed a spoken English corpus consisting of approximately 11,000,000 words, unfortunately, though, this corpus will not be offered for public use because of copyright problems. I have made extensive use of this corpus and made public various research results on spoken English in journals and at conferences. In the process of this research, I have made clear that textbooks and dictionaries are waiting for improvement in terms of the description and analysis of natural spoken" English, or English uttered spontaneously in natural situations. The analysis of English, especially in this country, has long been based on written materials (textbooks for "English conversation" and "English communication" classes present spoken materials, but they have not been used as important sources of materials for linguistic analysis), and, as a result, the materials themselves as well as the results of linguistic analysis of those materials presented to students in the form of grammars, textbooks and dictionaries consist mainly of written materials. Regarding the present situation surrounding English language education here in this country, spoken English corpus is indispensable for research purposes and for the purpose of making textbooks veered to spoken English. "The continuous and extensive research led me to two main findings', (1) spoken English is governed by different set of rules that are not to be found in written English - proximity and linearity, among others. (2) Quite a few of rules stated in textbooks and presented in English-Japanese dictionaries ＆ not go well together with the materials obtained from the spoken English corpus. It must be added that some frequently used spoken expressions have not found their way into the textbooks and dictionaries.The present researcher is sure that this corpus will present very important materials for the discourse and conversational analysis, as well as discourse markers.