2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Action Research to build a Transnational Volunteer Support Network for Foreign Students' Education with DAISY Multi-lingual Digital Book

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23653140
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Sociology
Research Institution	Ritsumeikan University
Principal Investigator	OZAWA Wataru 立命館大学, 産業社会学部, 教授 (30268148)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	外国人児童学習支援 / 多言語DAISY教材 / 日本語学習 / 母語学習 / アクション・リサーチ / アイデンティティ・テキスト / 帰国児童支援
Research Abstract	We tried to build a transnational volunteer support network for foreign students by using the digital book technology called DAISY (please refer to our website: rits-daisy.com). Through our action research, we could ascertain that the multi-lingual DAISY textbook is efficacious as a tool for linguistic education toward foreign students. Even persons who do not have professional linguistic education skills can participate in our project. DAISY system makes it easier to link volunteers, professional staff, and school staff. However, our project is facing difficulties and certain barriers. DAISY is usually thought of as a tool for disabled people. The government as well as the school board and school teachers cannot imagine that it can also be useful to foreign students. We examine our action research as one of the challenges to overcome this kind of difficulties.

(5 results)