Development and Validation of Reading Comprehension Index for Korean Learners of Japanese to Support Test and Teaching Material Development

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370619
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Tokoha University
• Principal Investigator: TANI Seiji 常葉大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (80514827)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 宮崎 佳典 静岡大学, 情報学部, 教授 (00308701)
• Research Collaborator: JUNG GiYoung 釜山外国語大学, 教授 ; AN JiYoung 大邱大学, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: CEFR / 読解尺度 / Can-do statements / 機械学習 / 基準特性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study proposed to 1) collect Japanese documents based on the CEFR Reading Comprehension Index, and identify textual features to determine CEFR　levels, 2) re-analyze previously collected survey data that used the CEFR Reading Comprehension Index for Korean learners of Japanese and Korean teachers of Japanese. We examined methods to automatically classify Japanese documents according to the CEFR Reading Comprehension Index by tagging features of Japanese text through machine learning techniques. In addition, we examined the ordering and comprehensibility of the CEFR Reading Comprehension Index.

Free Research Field

日本語教育