A blended EFL reading course based on the idea of the learner-annotated corpus

抄録

This study aims to explore the usefulness of a blended EFL reading course based on a new idea for the corpus designing technology. First the authors give a brief sketch of the idea of the ‘learner-annotated’ corpus. The new type of learner corpus was created using an e-learning system named iBELLEs, which was used in the undergraduate EFL reading classes in Tohoku University. The next sections will address the objectives of the study in two individual phases, i.e., the quantitative analysis of the learners’ achievements at the end of the course and the qualitative analysis of four individual cases of the learners’ annotations. The learners’ scores in the first phase were used to select the representative cases of the second phase that tries to observe learners’ actual reading processes through their annotating behaviour.