Study on language environment of community and family and the literacy development of foreign children born in Japan

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26284071
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Tokyo Gakugei University
• Principal Investigator: SAITO Hiromi 東京学芸大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50334462)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 森 篤嗣 京都外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (30407209) ; 橋本 ゆかり 横浜国立大学, 教育学部, 教授 (40508058) ; 岩田 一成 聖心女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (70509067)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SUGAHARA Masae 東京学芸大学, 国際教育センター, 准教授 (80594077)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: リテラシー / 日本生育外国人児童生徒 / 日本語作文の力 / 言語環境 / 出来事作文 / 意見文作文 / 思考・判断力 / 社会認識の形成

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Supporting language development of children who were born and educated in Japan (hereafter call them ‘foreign children’) has become a new issue. In this research, we tried to describe their literacy development through analyzing their essays. Essays on school event and opinion essays, written by foreign and Japanese children were collected. Then analyzed them from the perspectives of output, notation, vocabulary, grammar, structure of the contents, etc. and made a comparison of the result between foreign and Japanese children. The development of the quantity of output and expressing their sociality were similar in both groups. However, slight delays were observed in foreign children in the area of writing special syllables, grammatical competence, cohesion, diversity and appropriateness of the statement, logicality. To support literacy development of foreign children born in Japan, instructions which considered these characteristics is required.

Free Research Field

日本語教育　子どもの日本語教育