Building and analyzing an English/Japanese comparable corpus to seek pedagogical insights

在这次日美大学的合作研究中，我们建立并分析了一个可比语料库，该语料库包括四类子语料库：英语学习者(EL)、英语本族语者(ENS)、日语学习者(JL)和日语本族语者(JNS)。其目标是提高语篇一级的认识，重点是实体的一致性。语料库分析的结果，在中心理论(Grosz等人，1995)的框架内，为我们提供了一些教学见解，教师可以在EFL/JFL课堂上使用。这包括两种语言之间的异同，以及学习者特定的倾向，就被称为中心的焦点实体的转换类型而言，以及它们与中心形式选择的关系(例如，名词、代词)。

In this collaborative research between Japanese and U.S. universities, we built and analyzed a comparable corpus which consists of four types of sub-corpora: English learner (EL), English native speaker (ENS), Japanese learner (JL) and Japanese native speaker (JNS). The goal was to increase discourse-level awareness with a focus on entity coherence. The corpus analysis results, within the framework of Centering Theory (Grosz et al., 1995), provided us with some pedagogical insights that teachers can utilize back in the EFL/JFL classrooms. These include similarities and differences between the two languages and learner-specific tendencies, in terms of transition types of a focused entity called CENTER and their relation to CENTER form choices (e.g., nouns, pronouns).