Multi-layered Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis Basedon the Newly Compiled Corpus of Asian Learners of English

：本研究项目的目的是建立一个足够大的语料库，收集亚洲不同英语学习者所写的对照文章，并找出学习者在中介语使用中的特点。在数据分析的过程中，我们的目的是利用不同相关领域的研究成果，包括英语教学、英语和日语语言学、心理语言学和统计学。作为这个为期三年的项目的结果，我们最终在亚洲的十个国家和地区以及几个以英语为母语的国家收集了大约130万字的文章。ICNALE现在是亚洲最大的英语学习者语料库。收集的数据以下载版本和在线版本(称为ICNALE Online)公开提供。到目前为止，这些数据已经在世界上20多个国家和地区用于不同的研究目的。基于语料库，我们分析了学习者使用高频词、情态动词、副词、连词和话语标记语的特点。我们出版了10本书(其中一本是独著的)，13篇论文(其中7篇是同行评议的)，并做了41次特邀演讲和学术报告。

：The aim of the current research project was to compile a sufficiently large corpus of controlled essays written by varied learners of English in Asiaand to identify characteristic features in interlanguage uses by learners. In the process of data analysis, we aimed to utilize findings in varied related fields including TESOL, English and Japanese linguistics, psycholinguistics, and statistics. As a result of the three-years-project, we have finally collected approximately 1.3 million words of essays in ten countries and areas in Asia as well as in several countries where English is used as a native language. The ICNALE is now the largest corpus of Asian learners of English. The collected data is made publicly available both in a download version and in an online version, which is called The ICNALE Online. The data has been used to date for varied research purposes in more than twenty countries and areas in the world. Also, based on the corpus data, we have analyzed the features of learners’ use of high-frequent words, modal verbs, -ly adverbs, conjunctions, and discourse markers. We have published ten books (one of which is single-authored), thirteen papers (seven of which are peer-reviewed), and made forty-one invited speeches and academic presentations.