2020 Volume 4 Pages 1-20
Japanese language-oriented English sentence structure (JLOS) is a kind of English sentence structure that Japanese students often employ when thinking in Japanese rather than English. JLOS is hypothesized to have the following elements: illogical, not collocated, not harmonious, and incorrect preposition. The research questions are (1) what type of weak points does Japanese students’ writing present? and (2) does the multivariate analysis model with online learning facilitate in helping students’ writing? The sample size is 58 university students in the Kanto area. The data were collected in 2017 and 2018. POSA was utilized to evaluate whether the structure was significant in Japanese English writing (JLOS). A 3-step model was proposed to improve students’ JLOS writing.
