著者

岡部 純子

出版者

全国英語教育学会

雑誌

ARELE : annual review of English language education in Japan (ISSN:13448560)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.5, pp.61-69, 1994-07

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A number of studies have attempted to determine the writing mechanism of EFL/ESL writers. However, only a limited amount of research with an empirical approach has been offered, and this has hindered the generalization of each study's findings. This paper reports a study which investigated to what extent L1 writing ability and EFL proficiency contribute to the quality of EFL composition written by Japanese university students. Forty students were asked to take an English proficiency test and then to write two compositions on the same topic; one in Japanese and the other in English. The scores ofholistic evaluation of the students' L1 and EFL composition and scores on a language proficiency test were examined by correlational analysis, multiple regression analysis and factor analysis. The study showed that EFL proficiency accounted for the quality of EFL composition better than L1 writing ability did.