三浦 邦彦 (THE UNIVERSITY OF SHIMANE)

IDENTIFICATION OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS IN POPULAR CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO SEMANTIC-BASED DDL : METHODOLOGIES AND TEACHING APPROACHES

What kind of emotional expressions have children received from popular children's books? In other words, what kind of emotional expressions do authors use in children's books? The aim of this study is to identify what kind of categories of emotional expressions are found in popular children's books and to present their application for semantic-based DDL (Data Driven Learning) in the classroom for young EFL learners. As the corpus data collection of this study is to collect current 28 popular children's books and build as children's book corpora. The procedure of this study has adopted the following three steps to identify emotional expressions: (1) to identify the categories of emotional expressions and their ratio of usage in each children's book by cross-tabulation analysis, (2) to extract 50 "word + semantic tag (emotional category)" to clarify the relationship with each corpus by correspondence analysis, also to make a frequency list of "word + semantic tag" as a recommendation list for implementing semantic-based DDL, and (3) to extract 100 high-frequency collocations as a good reference list to grasp characteristic collocations for teachers and young EFL learners, and to analyse in detail 20 most characteristic categories of collocations. Based on the results, this presentation shows an effective adoption of semantic-based DDL focusing on emotional expressions, which suggests an adoption as a pedagogical use of the authentic language that children have read and received from popular children's books, also makes teachers lead to implement semantic-based DDL in the classroom for young EFL learners.

He is a professor at the University of Shimane and teaches corpus linguistics and comparative linguistics. He holds an MA TEFL/TESL from the University of Birmingham and a Ph.D. in English Linguistics from Daito Bunka University. His research interests are learner corpus and DDL (data driven learning) for EFL learners.