Developing evaluation criteria for Japanese narrative abilities using the corpus data of the International Corpus Japanese as a Second Language

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  • 多言語母語の日本語学習者横断コーパス(I-JAS)を基にした日本語のストーリーライティング評価基準の開発と評価
  • タゲンゴ ボゴ ノ ニホンゴ ガクシュウシャ オウダン コーパス(I-JAS)オ モト ニ シタ ニホンゴ ノ ストーリーライティング ヒョウカ キジュン ノ カイハツ ト ヒョウカ

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In this study, we report a series of procedures for developing evaluation criteria for narrative abilities for the applicable use of Japanese language education. First, based on previous studies, we established the four categorical characteristics of narrative abilities in Japanese: (1) transferability, (2) cohesion, (3) richness of expression, and (4) accuracy of expression. Then, for each characteristic, we developed criteria consisting of six levels (six points). In order to examine the usefulness of the evaluation criteria, we evaluated texts of the story writing (SW) tasks contained in the corpus data of the International Corpus Japanese as a Second Language (I-JAS). The result showed that the correlation (inter-evaluator reliability) between the two evaluators was very high as r=0.82 for the SW1 and r=0.84 for the SW2 (see Table 3). The evaluation scores of SWs showed relatively high correlations with Japanese language proficiency tests ranging from 0.41 to 0.55 (see Table 5). Furthermore, the evaluation results for the two SWs indicated high correlations from 0.77 to 0.87 (see Table 6). From these results, the evaluation criteria of narrative abilities developed in this study is applicable for the use of Japanese language education.

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  • ことばの科学

    ことばの科学 33 55-74, 2019-12-25

    名古屋大学言語文化研究会

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