Japanese Writing Syllabus for Mothers from Foreign Countries

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520564
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Yamagata University
• Principal Investigator: UTSUMI Yumiko 山形大学, 基盤教育院, 教授 (20292708)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SAWA Eunhee 東北文教大学短期大学部, 総合文化学科, 准教授 (50389699) ; TOMIYA Reiko 神奈川大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (40386818)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): NISHINA Hiromi 山形大学, 工学部, 准教授 (10431644) ; USUI Hiromi 山形大学, 基盤教育院, 非常勤講師 (30646170)
• Research Collaborator: NAGAFUJI Setsuko ; WATANABE Toshi ; IGARASHI Jeong sim ; SUZUKI Mira ; IRWIN Kaori ; SOMERS Lisa
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 外国出身保護者 / 幼稚園・保育園 / 連絡帳 / やりとり / 日本語使用 / ライティング / 子育て

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The renrakucho notebook plays an important role in facilitating written communication between parents and their child's kindergarten, preschool, nursery school or daycare. It is important to have a good and close relationship with schoolteachers since most of them aim to work together with parents on their child's education. However, it might be burdensome to write in Japanese if a parent is not fluent in the language.
In this researbh, we designed the site 「幼稚園・保育園の連絡帳を書こう！: Writing in renrakucho」http://www.renrakucho.net/ in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean to offer a useful guide to how and what to write in a renrakucho and launched it in March 2016.

Free Research Field

日本語教育