An Investigation on Strategies for Intercultural Cooperation Competence Necessary for Engineering Foreign Students

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520580
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Kyushu Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: APDUHAN Kyoko 九州工業大学, 大学院教養教育院, 教授 (00184630)
• Research Collaborator: UENO Mariko
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 異文化間協働能力 / 聞き取り調査

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To discover how our former engineering foreign students acquired intercultural cooperation competence, we conducted interviews to these former students who are working in domestic and overseas Japanese companies. During their first and second year in the company, and to improve their job efficiency, they consider compensation strategies based on their individual Japanese ability. After that, while working as a team in the workplace, they poured consciousness while adjusting human relationship to internalize the ways to proceed work in Japanese companies, and they devised adjustment methods in negotiating with local factories. Based on the specific cases obtained in this investigation, we created reading teaching materials for engineering students for them to consider after they land a job.

Free Research Field

日本語教育