2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Preparatory survey on introducing two foreign language study to elementary school children in Aomori

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23652127
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Foreign language education
Research Institution	Hirosaki University
Principal Investigator	OKUNO Koko 弘前大学, 人文学部, 教授 (80160810)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	TADA Megumi 弘前大学, 国際教育センター, 講師 (60381290)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	小学生 / 英語学習 / 韓国語学習 / 二つの外国語学習
Research Abstract	A questionaire survey on studying/teaching two foreign languages was conducted for the 3rd and 5th graders, and foreign language teachers at Japanese School in Seoul and Tokyo Korean School. About 60-70% of the pupils answered "it's better to learn two foreign laguages." To the question about "teaching Korean in addition to English in Japanese elementary school", almost all the teachers of foreign languages answered "it's good". There sure is a difference between the elementary school children of the two school surveyed and those in Aomori, Aomori prefecture has a lot of areas where people are earnest about exchange with Korea, so elementary school children in Aomori are sure to enjoy Korean language study as well as English language study.