| Presentation | 2018-07-28 [Poster Presentation] (Most) frequently observed grammatical errors of Japanese EFL learners even after the six years of English learning Toshiyuki Yamada, |
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| Abstract(in English) | This preliminary study investigates what grammatical errors are most frequently observed in Japanese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners even after the six years of English learning. By a series of free writing tasks, 2691 English sentences were collected from 28 Japanese EFL learners. We identified 882 grammatical errors in the dataset with respect to five major types: determiner, preposition, subject-verb agreement for be-verbs, subject-verb agreement for general verbs, and number agreement within a noun phrase. The ratios of the number of grammatical errors to that of obligatory contexts in which those particular grammatical items must occur were 61.1%, 10.9%, 2.6%, 5.7%, and 18.2%, respectively. There are three major findings: (i) Japanese EFL learners make errors in the determiner most frequently, (ii) they make errors in subject-verb agreement more frequently for general verbs compared to be-verbs, and (iii) they make errors in the determiner more often compared to agreement. Their theoretical and practical/educational implications are discussed. |
| Keyword(in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Keyword(in English) | grammatical errors / Japanese EFL learners / free writing tasks / cross-linguistic differences |
| Paper # | TL2018-25 |
| Date of Issue | 2018-07-21 (TL) |
| Conference Information | |
| Committee | TL |
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| Conference Date | 2018/7/28(2days) |
| Place (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Place (in English) | Keio University |
| Topics (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Topics (in English) | Human Language Processing and Learning |
| Chair | Hiroshi Sano(Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) |
| Vice Chair | Tadahisa Kondo(Kogakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Osaka Electro-Comm. Univ.) |
| Secretary | Tadahisa Kondo(Kobe Gakuin Univ.) / Kazuhiro Takeuchi(Kyoto Inst. of Tech.) |
| Assistant | Nobuyuki Jincho(Waseda Univ.) / Akinori Takada(Ferris Univ.) / Akio Ishikawa(KDDI Research) |
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| Registration To | Technical Committee on Thought and Language |
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| Language | ENG-JTITLE |
| Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Sub Title (in Japanese) | (See Japanese page) |
| Title (in English) | [Poster Presentation] (Most) frequently observed grammatical errors of Japanese EFL learners even after the six years of English learning |
| Sub Title (in English) | |
| Keyword(1) | grammatical errors |
| Keyword(2) | Japanese EFL learners |
| Keyword(3) | free writing tasks |
| Keyword(4) | cross-linguistic differences |
| 1st Author's Name | Toshiyuki Yamada |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Gunma University(Gunma Univ.) |
| Date | 2018-07-28 |
| Paper # | TL2018-25 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.118 |
| Number (no) | TL-163 |
| Page | pp.pp.65-70(TL), |
| #Pages | 6 |
| Date of Issue | 2018-07-21 (TL) |