@article{oai:stars.repo.nii.ac.jp:00009630,
 author = {釣井, 千恵 and TSURII, Chie},
 journal = {人間文化研究, Journal of Humanities Research,St.Andrew's University},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {This study overviews how and in what terms people talk about their 
experiences at a new type of English language educational institution 
in Japan, eigo mura （English village）. User-generated online reviews 
about an English village were quantitatively analysed using text mining 
techniques that employed KH Coder software. The reviews were 
retrieved from the Google review page and comprised 804 comments 
consisting of 27,487 characters （excluding spaces）. I analysed highfrequency words and co-occurrence networks, which showed the 
relationship between a specific word and others used in the data, and 
performed a hierarchical cluster analysis that identified the combinations 
or groups of words with similar appearance patterns, following 
Higuchi’s （2016） methodology. Although the English village functions 
as an English language educational institution and a resort hotel, the 
results showed that people strongly perceive it as an English education 
institution. Additionally, they believe in the efficacy of being immersed in 
British culture and situations that require the use of English in order to 
learn the language.
　This study is part of a larger multifaceted ethnographic research in 
the context of the English village to explore the ideological nature of the 
English language, including how it is learnt or taught, in contemporary 
Japanese society. Text mining can be applied for exploratory research 
and this study is part of a triangulation in a qualitative exploratory 
research, providing an overview on people’s perceptions of English villages, as a preliminary project for further research. The investigation 
suggested additional topics that can be examined to gain a deeper 
understanding of how the English language and the learning/teaching 
of it are perceived, as well as the reasons behind people’s negative 
feelings about their own English language skills. Then, these insights 
can be extrapolated to the study of how other cultures, foreign 
language education and （education of） intercultural communication are 
represented and perceived. In the same manner, beliefs on language use 
and language choice can be explored.},
 pages = {21--50},
 title = {テキストマイニングを用いた「英語村」に対するインターネット上の口コミ分析},
 volume = {18},
 year = {2023},
 yomi = {ツリイ, チエ}
}