Multi-lingual communication and human resource development for community formation of migrants and local residents

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24401025
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Iwate University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUOKA Yoko 岩手大学, 教育推進機構, 教授 (60344628)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ADACHI Yuko 新潟大学, 国際センター, 准教授 (00313552) ; NISHIYAMA Noriyuki 京都大学, 人間・環境学研究科, 教授 (30313498) ; GUO Junhai 九州大学, 留学生センター, 教授 (20377203)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 多文化社会 / コミュニティ形成 / 人材育成 / 複言語複文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Canada and Singapore are multilingual societies that accommodate the coexistence of multiple languages, and it has become a common practice for the government officers and community workers to speak in multiple languages. On the other hand, in Germany and South Korea, there is growing tendency of teaching cross-cultural communication skills to people who are engaged in activities with the migrant citizens.
We have then carried out in-service training for administrative officers and community leaders at several local community in Japan by workshop examining the background and possible solutions to problems of multi-language communities. The results show that their knowledge and skills in the following areas are engaged after training:1)awareness of the differences and the sense of resistance possessed by the migrants citizens,2)knowledge of the specific differences to be encountered by the migrants in the community,3)skills for handling certain difficult situations.

Free Research Field

外国語教育