Speaker: Ian Willey and Kimie Tanimoto
Date: Saturday, February 20th, 2010
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Location: Takamatsu, Kagawa
Venue: Kagawa University (Takamatsu) Faculty of Education, Room 411
Description:
Many academic journals in Japan require "native checks" for English abstracts accompanying submissions in Japanese. However, the efficacy of such native checks has not been confirmed empirically. It has even been suggested that native checks done by English teachers on texts produced by scientists may be superficial at best, and harmful at worst, particularly in terms of lexical cohesion. The presenters, an English teacher and a Nursing instructor, will describe an ongoing study that centers on the nature and efficacy of native checks. Ten native English speakers were asked to edit an abstract produced by a Japanese nursing researcher, and the changes made were identified and categorized from a socio-cognitive perspective. Follow-up interviews were then conducted. Results reveal a variety of approaches and attitudes towards editing, suggesting that a simple native check is in fact a complicated phenomenon yielding diverse results.
Cost for JALT members: free
Cost for JALT non-members: 500 yen
Organization: East Shikoku Chapter, East Shikoku Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
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