Published papers

発信型英語教育を目指して、主として大学生１・２年生を対象として編集・執筆した英語教科書である。教材を教科書のなかに盛り込む通常の手法を敢えてとらずに、学習者が自らの教材を教室外で探索し、それを教室内でのコミュニケーション活動に結びつけるためのシラバスを提供しているところにこの教科書の新しさがある。

This paper is concerned with the acquisition of English speech act verbs by Japanese learners of English. A vocabulary test containing 44 verbs of speech was administered to 859 high school and university students, who were asked to give Japanese equivalents to those verbs. The errors fall into the following three categories: (1) phonological errors, (2) semantic errors, and (3) morphological errors. It is pointed out that our findings are in accord with psycholinguistic studies concerning slips of the tongue in that both show the 'bathtub effect.' After discussing the similarities and differences between interlanguage errors, which is the main concern of this paper, and slips of the tongue that occur in natural speech, I propose a model for the process of how the learners construct the mental lexicon.

The main purpose of this paper is to try to provide a proper perspective for various observations regarding rendaku voicing alternations in Japanese compounds. In particular, we have examined various phonological and morpho-semantic conditions so far proposed by various researchers. It was shown that rendaku is a phonological rule but the conditions of application cannnot be defined purely in phonological terms. Furthermore, we pointed out that morpho-semantic conditions are deepely involved, without which a full account of rendaku phenomena would be impossible. It was also suggested that there is a possibility of subsuming some of the morpho-semantic conditions under a general semantic principle which states: rendaku is likely to occur to the extent that the composite elements of the compounds achieve semantic integration as a unit.

This paper attempts to define the conditions on Quantifier Float (QF hereafter) in Japapese. In particular, we focus on QF from NPs cased-marked by dative 'ni'. Based on the statistical evidence, we show that the Word Order Condition as proposed by Haig is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition on QF from dative NPs. This condition, together with the Adjacency Condition, gives a more satisfactory account for the statistical data we have examined. Furthermore, we suggest that the Adjacency Condition is operative on QF not only from dative NPs but also from nominative NPs. This condition, however, does not apply to QF from accusative NPs marked by 'o', which presents a rather interesting asymmetry between accusative NPs, on the one hand, and the nominative and dative NPs, on the other.

ヴェルボトナル法に基づいて、身体の動きを利用した英語発音指導の実践を報告するとともに、その新しい可能性を探る。はじめに身体の動きと発音との関わりを論じ、次に具体的に「身振り」と「フィンガー・アクション」を解説する。最後に身体の動きを利用するひとつの可能性として、日常生活で頻繁に用いられているジェスチャーを取り入れた発音指導法を対案する。

Writing constitutes one of the most difficult skills to attain for Japanese learners of English. This is particularly true when it involves not just a single sentence but an extended discourse. In fact, the transition from sentence-level competence to discourse-level competence does not seem to occur smoothly especially when the rhetorical structure of the learner's native language is different from that of the target language. This paper introduces the concept 'skeletonization,' a technique which can be profitably employed in the teaching of writing at the intermidiate or advanced level in order to facilitate this transition.

This paper focuses on LINKAGE, which is one of the important text-forming devices in Japanese, and examines to what extent this device is utilized in English. The Japanese text selected for this contrastive study is Natsume Soseki's "Botchan" and its English translations by Alan Turney and Sasaki Umeji.