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ERIC Number: EJ631032
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-1226-8909
A Study of EFL Discourse Using Corpora: An Analysis of Discourse Completion Tasks.
Nakano, M.; Miyasaka, N.; Yamazaki, T.
Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, v4 n2 p273-97 2000
Analyzes the discourse completion data collected through Japanese English-as-a-foreign-language learners with reference to four speech functions--thanking, apology, request, and offering. Compares Japanese learners' expressions with expressions obtained by native speakers of English stored in the London-Lund corpus of Spoken English. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Databases, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Pragmatics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Task Analysis
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Japanese People