A research on CALL for enriching Japanese learners' conversational capacity

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370572
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: SAITA IZUMI 東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (20186919)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): TAKAHASHI Akiko 宮城教育大学, 教育学部, 准教授 (10333767) ; INOGUCHI Yasushi 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, 情報社会基盤研究センター, 教授 (90293406) ; OGAWARA Yoshiro 北海道大学, 留学生センター, 准教授 (70302065)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 日本語教育 / コミュニケーション / 雑談 / 会話教材 / 接触場面 / ウェブ教材

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims at providing Japanese language learners effective support to have pleasurable chat with both native and non-native speakers of Japanese, as chitchatting sometimes becomes very hard for the learners.
For the purpose, casual talks in contact situation held by three women from China, Taiwan and Japan, and by same-sex three pairs of native Japanese were collected and analyzed. Quite a few video clips are found on the web-material as the learning resource.
The analysis shows that the native speakers' chats have narratives as their main construct, but the chats in contact situation have asking and giving information instead. Though the asking leads the flow of the talk, the answer also plays an important role for the conversation. If the answer is poor with little information, the chat can easily come to an end. Therefore, the tasks to give the answers which invite good prompt reactions are equipped in the web-material.

Free Research Field

日本語教育学