Scaffolding for minority-language students by Japanese students in the support class

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520591
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: KIYOTA JUNKO 立命館大学, 文学部, 教授 (30401582)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): UTSUKI Namiko 帝京大学, 帝京スタディアブロードセンター日本語予備教育課程, 講師 (90625287)
• Research Collaborator: TAKANASHI Kouko ; MIWA Mitsuko ; TSUCHIYA Takahumi
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 年少者日本語教育 / 教科学習支援 / 日本人生徒 / スキャフォールディング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, learning support in which minority-language students and Japanese students participated was implemented in junior high school international classes with the aim of gaining an understanding of the scaffolding Japanese students use to support the learning of minority-language students in a situation when the Japanese students are expected to "help the minority-language students".
The results of the analysis revealed that the Japanese students used 24 types of scaffolding to deepen the minority-language students' understanding of the content, encourage them to speak and arouse their desire to learn. The potential of Japanese students as "learning assistants" who display models of Japanese learning language and teaching material sentence comprehension and present methods of solving problems through their own learning activities was observed.

Free Research Field

人文学