Study of discourse expressions for improvement of foreign students' listening comprehension of Japanese university lectures

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02629
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Yamagata University
• Principal Investigator: WATANABE Fumio 山形大学, 人文社会科学部, 教授 (00212324)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 澤 恩嬉 東北文教大学短期大学部, その他部局等, 准教授 (50389699)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 談話分析 / 講義の談話 / 聴解 / トピックセンテンス / メタ言語表現 / ノートテイキング / 学部留学生

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study is to extract key expressions for foreign students in Japan to comprehend Japanese university lectures through the analysis of lecture discourse, and to investigate effective instruction to improve foreign students' listening comprehension of Japanese lectures through the analysis of experimental listening tasks. The results of the research show that students' awareness of the meta-linguistic expressions in topic sentences correlated with the comprehension of lectures, and that the more difficult the task was, the higher correlation the results had. These results suggest the effectiveness of listening instruction focused on meta-linguistic expressions.

Free Research Field

日本語学