英語学術論文における一人称代名詞'I'の使用

抄録

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the use of the first person pronoun 'I' in academic writings. Since those writings should be objectively directed, how to use 'I' seems to require special attention. This will affect how to establish our stance and create identities in them. Japanese English learners who have little adequacy to distinguish written English from spoken need to understand how 'I' is used in academic writings. I analyzed a corpus consisting of 20 academic writings and described the features of 'I' used in them. This paper finally showed pedagogical implications for the EFL teachers.