Collaborative construction of emergent grammar in Japanese university English language learning tasks: From graphic materials to spoken and written production

日本大学英语学习任务中生成语法的协同构建：从图形材料到口语和书面表达

• 批准号: 22K00692
• 负责人: David Aline
• 金额: $ 2.58万
• 依托单位: Kanagawa University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K00692/
• 关键词: Emergent grammar; Conversation analysis; Classroom materials; Task-based learning; 2nd language acquisition; Interactional grammar; emergent grammar; language learning tasks; conversation analysis

The first year of this three-year research project examining the collaborative construction of emergent grammar in language learner discussion tasks was productively initiated as the two researchers on this project were able to collect a significant amount of data, process the data, present some initial findings at two international conferences, consult with our Research Collaborator, and submit one paper with revisions to an international journal. In detail, the first year of the project was successful as we were able to accomplish the following: (a) purchased new equipment for data collection and studied the latest technology for these devices; (b) collected over 70 hours of data of Japanese university students' group work discussion in English, recorded over 350 minutes of the students' presentations on the results of their discussions, and compiled 279 pages of their written summaries about the discussions; (c) we submitted a paper to an international journal, received reviews on the submission, resubmitted the paper after responding to the reviews, and we are now waiting for the editors final decision on acceptance of the paper; (d) conducted a data session with our Research Collaborator and his colleagues, receiving useful feedback and suggestions on the direction of our research; (e) presented two papers at international conferences: one focused on the construction of emergent grammar from classroom learning materials, while the other presented our findings on student deployment of direct reported speech for supporting the positions taken in the group discussions.

这项为期三年的研究项目的第一年，研究了在语言学习者讨论任务中新兴语法的合作构建，因为该项目的两名研究人员能够收集大量数据，处理数据，在两个国际会议上介绍一些初步发现，并咨询我们的研究合作者，并向国际杂志提交一篇论文。详细说明，该项目的第一年成功了，因为我们能够完成以下操作：（a）购买了数据收集的新设备并研究了这些设备的最新技术； （b）收集了70个小时的日本大学学生小组工作讨论的数据，并记录了学生讨论结果的350分钟，并汇编了279页有关讨论的书面摘要； （c）我们向国际期刊提交了一篇论文，收到了有关提交的评论，在回应评论后将论文重新提交，现在我们正在等待编辑关于接受该论文的最终决定； （d）与我们的研究合作者及其同事进行了数据会议，并就我们的研究方向收到了有用的反馈和建议； （e）在国际会议上介绍了两篇论文：一篇重点是从课堂学习材料中构建新兴语法，而另一个则介绍了我们有关学生部署直接报告的语音的发现，以支持小组讨论中所做的职位。