Abstract- Although most Japanese college students have already learned all of their basic English grammar through more than 6 six years of English education, many of them cannot use this knowledge communicatively (speaking and writing) and make many simple errors. The attitude of “it is all right as long as it is comprehensible” leads to the consequence that students use quite rough language, which can be hard to understand. On the other hand, simply focusing on grammar lessons is boring and has less of an effect. In this presentation, I will explain the reasons for student errors and how to help them reduce their mistakes without decreasing their communication initiative.
Bio- Dr. Lan Wu is a Special Part-time Teacher at Yamagata University. She is from China and has been living in Japan for 9 years. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Tohoku University, where she also did research as a postdoc. Her research field is linguistics, and she is interested especially in language contrast. Her hobbies are watching movies (especially Hollywood movies), listening to music and reading books.
