Audience awareness and communication strategies in school children's wiring

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23730823
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Utsunomiya University
• Principal Investigator: MORITA Kaori 宇都宮大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (20334021)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 文章表現 / 相手意識 / 作文 / コミュニケーション方略 / 国際比較 / イギリス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined about communication strategies and audience awareness in children's wiring by international comparative research with Japan and UK. In this research, while Japanese children often changed the topic of their writing according to audience, British children added some information at word level for audience. The result of analysis children's writing from a developmental point of view showed that Japanese children had more complicated and various communication strategies than British children.

Free Research Field

国語科教育