2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Research on influence that J.S.L. students' first language and learning environment give to Japanese proficiency and beliefs about Japanese learning

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20520459
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Japanese language education
Research Institution	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Principal Investigator	TSUCHIYA Junichi Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 留学生日本語教育センター, 准教授 (10262213)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2010
Keywords	教育評価・測定 / 学習環境
Research Abstract	We have conducted two kinds of test to J.S.L students. Test 1 : In order to investigate the types of errors which J.S.L students make when they type in Japanese using a keyboard, we video-recorded the display while they are typing their responses in Japanese to questions given on the computer display. Test 2 : We have conducted semi-structured interviews about learning environment to them immediately after test 1. The following results were obtained from our analysis. (1) Uighur speakers tend to value fluency than accuracy. (2) Even the error rate is almost same, Mongolian speakers of China evaluate themselves higher than Chinese speakers. (3) Tibetan speakers' error rate is very low. But they feel difficulty in studying Japanese due to lack of knowledge of Chinese characters. (4) Malay speakers tend to overvalue the influence of Chinese characters.