Statistical Analysis of Letters to Newspaper Written by Students in Literature Department

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In recent years, the Japanese-language proficiency of university students has been conspicuously deteriorating. Given this situation, we have provided our students with some methods on how to improve their command of Japanese. After the lessons, our students have to contribute their letters on daily life or current topics to a newspaper to check the attainment of their proficiency. We have been accumulating text files of their letters over three years. Our goal in this study is to statistically analyze the characteristics of our students' letters in order to take full advantage of the result of analysis in our class on Japanese proficiency. We calculated rhetorical features such as sentence length, Yule's K, and so on by using a Japanese essay scoring system called JESS, and then analyzed the result statistically. The analysis indicated there was a significant difference in sentence length and vocabulary diversity between our students' letters and the letters reported in the newspaper. On the basis of the findings, we are going to provide our students with more modified materials for Japanese learning.
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