Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2015/04 -2019/03
Author : YOKOKAWA HIROKAZU; YABUUCHI Satoshi; HARDA Yasunari; SATOI Hisaki; BANDO Michiko; HASHIMONO Ken-ichi; NARUMI Tomoyuki
This study is a pilot survey carried out with the goal of building a familiarity database on English “sentence construction” for Japanese EFL learners. Participants were then asked to evaluate the degree of familiarity with these sentence constructions on a 7-point scale (7: [Very familiar] to 1: [Never seen before]). As a result, the following was found: the familiarity differs depending on the category of an argument structure, and the familiarity with a verb is not necessarily correlated with the familiarity with its sentence construction; in some sentence constructions, familiarity varies depending on the tense and aspect, whereas in the other sentence constructions, it does not; the evaluation on the familiarity of sentence constructions varies greatly for each participant for some verbs, but not for the other verbs.