The 21st Century COE Program "Usage-Based Linguistic Informatics"(2002-2006)

Language Education Group
Outline Construction of
and Research...		 Second
Language...		 Language
Proficiency...		 Research on
Teaching Materials...

Staff members in charge of promotion:

Susumu Zaima, Ikuo Kameyama, Akira Mizubayashi, Mayumi Usami
Principal contacts: Tae Umino, Asako Yoshitomi, Masashi Negishi
Outline

Research themes of the Language Education Group can be broken down into four major categories:

  1. Discourse corpus research;
  2. second language acquisition research;
  3. linguistic proficiency descriptive model; and
  4. multilingual syllabi research & assessment of teaching materials.