Junior high student Japanese language support needed to understand social studies textbooks

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K20818
• Project/Area Number (Other): 18H05612 (2018)
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund (2019); Single-year Grants (2018)
• Review Section: 0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
• Research Institution: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
• Principal Investigator: Miybe Mayumi 大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 日本語教育研究領域, プロジェクトPDフェロー (60823383)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-08-24 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 年少者の日本語 / 中学社会科教科書 / 語彙 / 文法 / 教科学習支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research examined the Japanese linguistic difficulties faced by junior high school student when seeking to understand their social studies textbook, from which they learn geography, history and civics. To investigate the lexicon and grammar in these texts, the information in the textbooks was first converted into texts and then entered into ChaMame, a morphological analysis support software designed to support Japanese linguistic studies. In particular, an examination was conducted on the kinds of predicates used in the text, and an analysis conducted on the relationships between these predicates and the narrative methods found in the texts.

Free Research Field

日本語学，日本語教育学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

社会科教科書の日本語の難しさについて，先行研究ではどのような語彙があるのかという語彙面に関する研究が多いが，本研究で日本語支援を必要とする中学生という視点からどのように用いられているのかという文法面からも分析を行った。
述語の分析から，述語に用いられる語彙の偏りや形，そしてどのような記述の仕方をするかということがわかり，社会科教科書を読むための日本語の支援や教材作成のための基礎資料となると考える。