著者

田代 ひとみ

雑誌

横浜国立大学留学生センター教育研究論集 (ISSN:13406493)

巻号頁・発行日

no.16, pp.75-97, 2009-03

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This paper attempts to identify problems in opinion essays, comparing writing of high scores (=H-writings) and writing of low scores (=L-writings), and H-writing and writing answering a question (=AQ-writing). In the quantitative analysis, there was little difference in the average number of logical expressions between H-writing and L-writing, and between H-writing and AQ-writing. In the qualitative analysis, adequate grounds for argument or explicit answers to the question were seldom seen in L-writing and AQ-writing even though logical linguistic expressions were used with equal frequency in H-writing. These results suggest that it is necessary to focus on coherence of content to develop second language writing skills.