The final goal of this research is to propose directions to realize richer communication in the new media age. This research investigated young people's use of mobile phone messaging function. The young generation's extensive use of mobile phone m...
Inspired by the perspective of social psychology and from the standpoint of constrastive linguistics, our project conducted research into politenesswhich focused on a discourse analysis dealing with German, Japanese and English texts including tho...
A Japanese TV broadcast of the Atlanta Olympics women's marathon competition attracted strong criticism in a number of popular magazines and newspapers. The criticism focused mainly on the verbal style of the program's presenter and the commentato...
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(基盤研究(C))
Project Year: 2006 - 2007 Investigator(s): Kevin L. MARK
The conventional approach to learner corpus building is to conceive of it as being helpful to but separate from the teaching process. The main achievement of this research project was to be able to show a model of how the processes of creating a p...
This research aimed to build a model of the curriculum to develop language ability which supports students' academic success in the university.Members of this research group published several papers and made presentations in academic conferences s...
Most of the research results of the members of this project are recorded on the interim report (October,2003) and the result report (March,2005) except for the some published writings. The following is the outline of the results for these three ye...
Japanese Interactional Communication
The Japanese discourse features that learners find difficult to acquire
Metalinguistic features of Sports broadcasting
Material Development and Teaching Improvement for Academic Literacy required of University Students in Japan
