抄録
The difficulties of Japanese language learners who write academic reports for the first time are examined. The learners' reports are analyzed from the perspective of prominence, cohesion, logicality, and coherence (Komori & Naito 2015, Naito & Komori 2016), and it is found that the numbers of problems concerned with cohesion are the largest, especially conjunctions and lexical cohesion. The second most common problems are concerned with prominence and logicality. Regarding prominence, how to highlight the new information is difficult and as to logicality how to support opinions with evidence is difficult. Regarding coherence, maintaining consistency among and within the parts of the report—the introduction, body, and conclusion—is difficult.
