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Development of a Corpus-Assisted Language Learning System and its Pedagogical Implications
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, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Japan ; , National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Japan ; , Hiroshima University, Japan ; , Tokai University, Japan ; , Fukui Prefectural University, Japan ; , Shizuoka University, Japan ; , Miyagi University of Education, Japan ; , Kyoto University, Japan

EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Vienna, Austria ISBN 978-1-880094-65-5 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC

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The examination of a corpus consisting of English abstracts written exclusively by Japanese researchers reveals a substantial number of English expressions such as ‘high possibility’ that sound unnatural to native speakers of English. The inability to choose a preferred linguistic sequence from a number of grammatically acceptable alternatives can be detrimental in writing academic papers. To compensate for this lack of native-like selection, we have compiled a corpus consisting of over sixty million running English words collected from English academic research journals and have developed a system through which learners can obtain useful information on concordances and collocations relating to any particular English word in the life sciences. It is hoped that this system will help Japanese researchers develop greater confidence in their choice of English collocations, thereby making their papers more readable and free from erroneous or unnatural expressions.

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Ohtake, H., Fujita, N., Kawamoto, T., Takekoshi, M., Morren, B., Takeuchi, H., Ugawa, Y. & Kaneko, S. (2008). Development of a Corpus-Assisted Language Learning System and its Pedagogical Implications. In J. Luca & E. Weippl (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2008--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 4327-4332). Vienna, Austria: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 9, 2024 from .

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