Towards Developing a Japanese and English Story Corpus and its Application to Language Education and Clinical Psychology

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Narrative has long been recognised as a primordial means of transmitting human experience of the world and it has its great importance in formal education where young children or students absorb socio-cultural knowledge (including empirical or tacit knowledge) to become a social being. This project developed a corpus of Japanese and English story texts (published for and written by young children and students aged from three to fifteen years old), in order to investigate both its enabling function in social and educational contexts and the status quo of the selection criteria of story texts (school textbooks, recommended books for target readers, etc.). It then proposed a text-based analytical framework of story texts to examine developmental problem-solution patterns in Japanese and English story texts and the differences found in input and output story texts. It also applied the framework to some case studies in language education and clinical psychology.