台湾の日本語学習者の作文に見られる日本語の一人称代名詞の使用について 【原著論文】

This study proposes a method of “functional analysis" (Text function and Sentence function) to investigate thequality of the usage of the personal pronouns of Japanese by Taiwanese learners. It compares and analyzes theusage of the personal pronouns in the Japanese textbooks and the learners' actual use in their compositions. Manyquantitative analyses have been done on the usage of the personal pronouns by learners of Japanese. Qualitativeanalyses on this area, however, are rare. The results show that the usage of the personal pronouns change with the learners' proficiency in Japanese bothquantitatively and qualitatively. The personal pronouns occurring in the textbook differ from that of the learnersactually use in their writing.As for the text function, the rate of the topic function is higher than other functions. As for the sentence function,the rate of which the personal pronouns are used as a subject is very high whether it can be omitted or not. This iscaused by the interference learners' first language. It can be seen clearly that their use of the personal pronouns isinfluenced by the sentence patterns of the textbooks.