The Impact of Short-term Study Abroad on Learners' Consciousness and the Construction of a Learning Consciousness Framework

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K03017
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Mejiro University
• Principal Investigator: MAEDA Hitomi 目白大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (30458575)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 異文化理解 / 異文化コミュニケーション / 高等教育 / 比較文化 / 国際理解教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This qualitative study on the impact of studying abroad comprehensively analyzed 18 students who studied abroad from the perspectives of cross-cultural change and the educational effects of studying abroad (short-term and long-term effects) using personal attitude construct analysis. The results of the study indicated that study abroad may have first affected the individual's cognition, knowledge, awareness, and values, and then had a long-term effect on the subject's behavior (e.g., increased positivity, confidence, etc.) over the course of one year.

Free Research Field

異文化教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

学習者の視点から短期留学が学習者の意識に与える影響を短期的・長期的視点から調査し、留学の教育的効果が可視化できたことは意義の一つである。またそれにより得られた知見をもとに「学びの意識化フレームワーク」とし、プロセスの一環で学習者自らが自身を分析し、留学での学びが可視化・意識化されることで学習者自身の変化や成長、留学による学びを学習者個人が確認できる仕組みを作ったことも意義の一つであるといえる。