A New Japanese Language Education Program to Enhance Literacy Skills in Overseas Japanese Language Supplementary Schools

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K12423
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 02090:Japanese language education-related
• Research Institution: Kokugakuin University (2019-2023); Ochanomizu University (2018)
• Principal Investigator: Kano Naomi 國學院大學, 教育開発推進機構, 教授 (20726880)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 多言語話者 / 日本語補習授業校 / 継承日本語教育 / 先進的カリキュラム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study has developed a website that provides an advanced curriculum for overseas Japanese language supplementary schools and heritage Japanese language schools, where learners are becoming more diverse along with the advance of globalization. Although in these schools, the number of speakers of heritage Japanese who are multilinguals is increasing, teaching methods that recognize and actively utilize their multilingual abilities and diversity have not yet been established. Therefore, through collaboration with schools and educational organizations around the world that have adopted unique and advanced curricula that employ multilingual resources to utilize learners’ thinking skills and comprehensively develop learners' language skills, this study presented the results at online international research meetings, compiled them into a website, and began making them available to the public since FY2023.

Free Research Field

バイリンガル教育、マルチリテラシーズ、トランス・ランゲージング教授法、汎用的アカデミックスキルズ教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

グローバル化とテクノロジーの急速な発展により、近年、多言語使用は世界中で身近で日常的な現象となっている。しかし、言語教育現場の大半では未だ母語話者規範が支配的であり、日本も例外ではない。多言語話者の柔軟で豊かな言語使用を反映した先進的な教育プログラムの提供は、継承日本語学習において生徒や学校に資するだけでなく、日本語を使用する多言語話者コミュニティを国際社会で拡充するためにも不可欠である。本研究では、世界各地の地域性を反映した多様なカリキュラムや教材例と共にカリキュラム開発に必要な汎用性のある基礎的フレームワークを提供することができた。