A study of the effects of using a brainstorming card game in collaborative learning

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23720272
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Miyagi Gakuin Women's University
• Principal Investigator: SAWABE Yuko 宮城学院女子大学, 学芸学部, 准教授 (40453352)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: カードゲーム / ブレインストーミング / 協働学習 / 日本語教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigated the effects of using a brainstorming card game in collaborative learning. Students who study Japanese as a foreign language participated in the experiment, which examined whether language anxieties were reduced. The results of surveys in 2012 and 2014, which use the Japanese language anxiety scale-test, suggested that many of the language anxieties students had before the activity were reduced significantly by using a brainstorming card game. This conclusion implies that the brainstorming card game may reduce some language anxieties.

Free Research Field

日本語教育