Analysis of Learner’s Production of Adjectives Using the Japanese Language Learner's Corpus C-JAS: The Case of takai
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https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.3.2.9-24Keywords:
Japanese language adjectives, C-JAS corpus, second-language acquisition, language production, learner’s errorsAbstract
In this paper, we explore learner production of adjectives using the Japanese language learner's corpus C-JAS (Corpus of Japanese As a Second language). Firstly, we describe the overall usage of adjectives in the corpus and discuss the distribution of the adjectives among learners including their correct and incorrect usages. Then, we take the frequently used adjective takai "high/tall/expensive" as an example and show how the learners' production of adjectives develops in terms of form, correct/incorrect usages, and lexico-semantic coverage.
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Srdanović, I. (2013, forthcoming) Daikibo koopasu wo mochiita keiyoushi to meishi no korokeishon no kijutsuteki kenkyuu: Nihongo kyouiku no jisho sakusei ni mukete (Description of Adjective and Noun Collocations Based on Large-Scale Corpora: Towards Dictionary for Japanese Language Learners). Kokuritsu kokugo kenkyuujo ronshuu (NINJAL Research Papers) 6.
Sakoda, K., Kinoshita, A., Konishi, M., Lee, J. (2012) Nihongo gakushuusha no juudanteki kaiwa koopasu no kouchiku to shuutoku kenkyuu: 3 nennkan no deeta kara bunpou shuutoku no katei wo saguru (The development of the Japanese learners’ conversational longitudinal corpus and the language acquisition research: observing the process of grammar acquisition from the three-year data). 2012 nendo nihongo kyouiku kokusai kenkyuu taikai yokoushuu (The proceeding of the international research conference on Japanese language didactics for year 2012)
Sakoda, K. (2013) Nihongo gakushuusha no hatsuwa koopasu to doushi no hattatsu. (Learners’ Spoken Corpus of Japanese and Developmental Sequence of Verbs) Kokugoken purojekuto rebyuu (NINJAL Project Review), 107-116. Kokuritsu kokugo kenkyuujo (National Institute for the Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Sakoda, K. (2012) Hibogowasha no komyunikeishon kufuu (Ingenuity of communication for non-native speakers). Nihongo kyouiku no tame no komyunikeishon kenkyuu (Studies in communication for Japanese language didactics), 105-124. Tokyo: Kuroshio shuppan
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SRDANOVIĆ, I., & SAKODA, K. (2013). Analysis of Learner’s Production of Adjectives Using the Japanese Language Learner’s Corpus C-JAS: The Case of takai. Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 3(2), 9-24. https://doi.org/10.4312/ala.3.2.9-24
