English Lexical Phrases Used by Japanese University Students

This paper explores frequency and characteristics of English vocabulary and lexical phrases used by Japanese university students in written essays using four different native speaker corpora and International Corpus of Learner English Japanese sub-corpus. The results show that learner corpus contains only a few function words and lexical phrases and that the students seem to learn lexical phrases in two ways; by memorizing the string of words as a whole and by combining a few function words to a core content word and also by combining more than two lexical phrases.3KJ00004174468departmental bulletin pape