Readings in Second Language Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition: In Japanese Context (Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics)

282 Pages·2006·1.88 MB·English

by  Asako Yoshitomi

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ReadingsinSecondLanguagePedagogy
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Usage-BasedLinguisticInformatics
Volume4
ReadingsinSecondLanguagePedagogyandSecondLanguageAcquisition:
InJapaneseContext
EditedbyAsakoYoshitomi,TaeUminoandMasashiNegishi
Readings in
Second Language Pedagogy and
Second Language Acquisition
In Japanese Context
Editedby
Asako Yoshitomi
Tae Umino
Masashi Negishi
TokyoUniversityofForeignStudies
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Contents
Message from the President
Setsuho IKEHATA (President, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)............................1
Center of Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics (UBLI)
Yuji KAWAGUCHI.........................................................................................................3
Preface
Asako YOSHITOMI, Tae UMINO and Masashi NEGISHI...........................................11
Part I. Teaching Perspective
Discourse Politeness Theory and Cross-Cultural Pragmatics
Mayumi USAMI...........................................................................................................19
Teaching Conversational Storytelling Skills to Japanese Students of English
—Why is it Necessary and What could be Taught?—
Takashi SUZUKI..........................................................................................................43
Integration of Theory and Practice in Grammar Teaching
—Grammaring, Grammarization and Task Activities —
Hide TAKASHIMA and Rie SUGIURA........................................................................59
A Computerized Test of Oral Proficiency —Development of an Automated Instrument—
Lynne HANSEN and Joshua ROWE............................................................................75
How Much Do We Have in Common with the Common European Framework of Reference?
—The Applicability of the CEFR to an IRT-based English Proficiency Test in Japan—

Masashi NEGISHI.......................................................................................................83
An Inquiry into the Social Aspects of Language Teacher Expertise
Alison STEWART.......................................................................................................101
Part II. Learning Perspective

Learning to Reframe
—Japanese Benefactives, Metalinguistic Beliefs and the Identities of L2 Users—
Barbara PIZZICONI..................................................................................................119
The Zone of Proximal Development and Second Language Acquisition
—Beyond Social Interaction—
Amy Snyder OHTA.....................................................................................................155
Manual Introduction of Animate Referents in L2 Narrative Discourse
Keiko YOSHIOKA.....................................................................................................179
The Use of Phrasal Verbs by Japanese Learners of English
—Implications from Story Telling Data—
Asako YOSHITOMI...................................................................................................201
Learning a Second Language through Audiovisual Media
—A Longitudinal Investigation of Strategy Use and Development—
Tae UMINO...............................................................................................................227
Network-Based Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
—Emergent Research Issues—
Mark PETERSON......................................................................................................247
Index of Proper Nouns........................................................................................................263
Index of Subjects................................................................................................................267
Contributors........................................................................................................................273

Message from the President
Setsuho IKEHATA (President, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

The 21st Century COE (“Center of Excellence”) Program, launched by
the Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology in 2002,
grants subsidies to distinguished universities in our country for the
establishment of a center of research and education in various fields with the
highest academic standards in the world. It aims at raising the level of
research in our country’s universities and fostering creative academic minds,
expected to become leaders of the world. Tokyo University of Foreign
Studies (TUFS) submitted applications for research projects in two of the
selected programs—the Humanities and Interdisciplinary/Compound/New
Sphere fields. We have obtained wonderful results; both projects were
selected. We are extremely pleased and encouraged by this high evaluation
of the unique research projects and educational potential of our Graduate
School of Area and Culture Studies.
To run the program, TUFS has accepted outstanding experts from all
over the world—Europe, North and South America, Oceania, Asia, and
Africa—who collaborate on education and research in a wide range of
academic fields including linguistics, literature, history, philosophy, cultural
anthropology, sociology, political science, and economics. Thus, we have
attained an extremely consistent interdisciplinary and comprehensive
approach for a single-faculty university. In an age that emphasizes the global
community, it is certainly desirable for us to maximize and further develop
this unique strength in both education and research.
A strong foundation in foreign languages is vital to area and culture
studies. TUFS engages in education and research in over 50 languages,
cultures and societies in every part of the world, which contributes to
cross-cultural understanding and the development of people capable of
contributing to the actualization of a harmonious global community. In
addition, a double-major system that requires students to specialize in both a
language and a discipline-related course of study enables TUFS to produce
graduates equipped with a high degree of language competence and a deep
knowledge of world cultures and societies.
Our new campus in Fuchu is proudly equipped with the state-of-the-art
computing network. The most outstanding feature is the information literacy
and the number of computers on campus, which ranks at the top level among
2 Setsuho IKEHATA
liberal arts universities in our country. With such priviledged information
infrastructure, TUFS endeavors to make the best use of multimedia, the
internet and other devices, in order to develop the most advanced language
education.
The University’s Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics project, selected
by the 21st Century COE Program, is the concrete manifestation of our plans
for the future, which I have just mentioned. The implementation team
members are committed to this future vision and vigorously engaged in the
project. It is my fervent desire that they will produce rewarding results. It is
the intention of everyone at TUFS to combine our wisdom in a concerted
effort to do our utmost to make a success of the 21st Century COE Program.
With a view to providing full support to the program, TUFS has
established the “21st Century COE Program Administration Office” which is
directly responsible to myself, the President. This Office is an inter-sectional
organization consisted of the President, the Vice-President, the deans of each
division, the Program Leader, as well as the managers of the secretariat. Its
important role is to enhance the cooperation between the various sections
within TUFS and to administrate the use of the space and the budget
allocated for research.

Tokyo, December, 2005
Center of Usage-Based Linguistic
Informatics (UBLI)
Yuji KAWAGUCHI (COE Program Leader, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)

1. Linguistic Informatics
It is widely believed that linguistic theories and computer sciences have
greatly influenced foreign language education, however the collaboration of
these three domains has not brought about new scientific results. The present
program aims to meet such a scientific need. An overall integration of
Theoretical and Applied Linguistics will be realized on the basis of
Computer Sciences. We have named this synthetic field Linguistic
Informatics. When we hear this name for the first time, we may take it for a
branch of natural sciences. However, since our language represents a system
of information, linguistics itself constitutes, in a broad sense, a part of
informatics. In the following lines, due to the limitation of space, I will

explain only the essence of this 21st Century COE (Center of Excellence)
Program.

COE Program Promoters

Yuji KAWAGUCHI French and Turkish Linguistics
Susumu ZAIMA German Linguistics
Nobuo TOMIMORI Romance Linguistics
Toshihiro TAKAGAKI Spanish Linguistics
Yoichiro TSURUGA French Linguistics
Ikuo KAMEYAMA Russian Literature
Akira MIZUBAYASHI French Literature, History
Hideki NOMA Korean Linguistics
Kohji SHIBANO Information Technology
Makoto MINEGISHI Theoretical Linguistics
Mayumi USAMI Social Psychology of Language

2. Organization and Research Projects
The present COE program is directed by the following supervisors:
Susumu ZAIMA, Toshihiro TAKAGAKI, Yoichiro TSURUGA, Kohji
SHIBANO, Makoto MINEGISHI, Mayumi USAMI and Yuji KAWAGUCHI.
In 2004-2005, the following research projects are undertaken in three
scientific fields respectively.