2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Development of Japanese Oral Proficiency Test For the Use in Education, Business and Multi-Cultural Areas

Research Project

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Project/Area Number	25244023
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese language education
Research Institution	Nanzan University
Principal Investigator	Kamada Osamu 南山大学, 人文学部, 教授 (20257760)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	坂本正南山大学, 人文学部, 教授 (60205771) 六川雅彦南山大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (40434609) 伊東祐郎東京外国語大学, その他部局等, 教授 (50242227) 嶋田和子清泉女子大学, 文学部, その他 (90725318) 野口裕之名古屋大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (60114815) 由井紀久子京都外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20252554) 野山広大学共同利用機関法人人間文化研究機構国立国語研究所, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 准教授 (40392542) 李在鎬筑波大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 准教授 (20450695) 西川寛之明海大学, 外国語学部, 講師 (30387302)
Project Period (FY)	2013-10-21 – 2017-03-31
Keywords	対面型口頭能力測定 / 実用性 / 汎用性 / アカデミック版 / ビジネス版 / コミュニティー版 / 静止画によるテストコンテンツつツ / タブレットベースの試験支援システム
Outline of Final Research Achievements	Toward the aim to prepare practical and widely-usable Japanese oral proficiency tests in three domains---Academic, Business and Community, we made 15-minute face-to-face trial tests, which are presented with visual prompts and recorded in a tablet PC. Each domain consists of three steps, Step 1 (basic questions common to all domains), Step 2 (description and explanation questions), and Step 3 (opinion questions). Step 1 has 10 questions shared in all domains, Step 2 and 3 have 10 questions each; thus, each domain has 20 questions (plus 10 Step 1 questions). Using the Multi-Facet Rasch Model a pilot study was conducted to examine the difficulty of each problem and the variation of each tester's rating, whose analysis needs a few months to be completed.
Free Research Field	日本語教育学