A Comparative Study of Narratives in Japanese and English by English-Speaking Learners of Japanese: Focusing on Topic Noun Phrases

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  • 英語を母語とする日本語学習者を対象とした日英語ナラティブの比較：トピック名詞句に着目して
  • エイゴ オ ボゴ ト スル ニホンゴ ガクシュウシャ オ タイショウ ト シタ ニチエイゴ ナラティブ ノ ヒカク トピック メイシク ニ チャクモク シテ

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This study investigates English-speaking learners' oral narratives in Japanese and English in order to clarify their narrative abilities. Six English-speaking learners of Japanese participated in the experiment. The participants were college students in the U.S. In the experiment, they were asked to tell a story in Japanese and English, based on a picture-book, Frog, where are you? (Mayer, 1969). Their speech data were transcribed and analyzed in terms of how topics were introduced and maintained with regard to "discourse markedness" proposed by Chaudron & Parker (1990). Results show that learners of Japanese had difficulty distinguishing particles wa and ga in the known context.

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