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Presentation 2018-07-28 16:40
[Poster Presentation] (Most) frequently observed grammatical errors of Japanese EFL learners even after the six years of English learning
Toshiyuki Yamada (Gunma Univ.) TL2018-25
Abstract (in Japanese) (See Japanese page) 
(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.
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(in English) grammatical errors / Japanese EFL learners / free writing tasks / cross-linguistic differences / / / /  
Reference Info. IEICE Tech. Rep., vol. 118, no. 163, TL2018-25, pp. 65-70, July 2018.
Paper # TL2018-25 
Date of Issue 2018-07-21 (TL) 
ISSN Print edition: ISSN 0913-5685    Online edition: ISSN 2432-6380
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Committee TL  
Conference Date 2018-07-28 - 2018-07-29 
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 
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Conference Code 2018-07-TL 
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Title (in English) (Most) frequently observed grammatical errors of Japanese EFL learners even after the six years of English learning 
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Keyword(1) grammatical errors  
Keyword(2) Japanese EFL learners  
Keyword(3) free writing tasks  
Keyword(4) cross-linguistic differences  
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1st Author's Name Toshiyuki Yamada  
1st Author's Affiliation Gunma University (Gunma Univ.)
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Date Time 2018-07-28 16:40:00 
Presentation Time 80 minutes 
Registration for TL 
Paper # TL2018-25 
Volume (vol) vol.118 
Number (no) no.163 
Page pp.65-70 
#Pages 6 
Date of Issue 2018-07-21 (TL) 

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