Needs Analysis for Supporting Academic Writing and Reading in Japanese

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320104
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: OSHIMA YAYOI 東京海洋大学, 海洋科学技術研究科, 教授 (90293092)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): SATO Sekiko 東北大学, 高等教育開発推進センター (20205925) ; CHINAMI Kyoko 日本赤十字九州国際看護大学, 看護学部 (60217239) ; YAMAJI Naoko 室蘭工業大学, 工学研究科 (40588703) ; YAMAMOTO Fumiko 武蔵野大学, グローバルコミュニケーション学部 (50283409) ; SASAKI Yasuko , 人間文化創成科学研究科 (20251689)
• Research Collaborator: アプドゥハン 恭子 九州工業大学 ; 清水 まさ子 国際交流基金 ; 張 瑜珊 新生医護専門学校 ; トンプソン 美恵子 早稲田大学 ; 二通 信子 室蘭工業大学 ; 李 セロン 室蘭工業大学
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: アカデミック・ジャパニーズ / アカデミック・ライティング / 国際研究者交流 / 談話分析 / 論文作成支援 / 引用表現 / 解釈表現

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Towards gaining a comprehensive and concrete view of the tasks for those who were to assist the learning of academic writing/reading in Japanese, we conducted the following: the discourse structures of academic articles in different disciplines ( 270 articles in humanities, social science and engineering) were classified into representative types; the manners of exploiting quotation in the literature-analysis type of papers in humanities and social sciences were investigated; a quiz was developed to probe the process of acquiring academic vocabulary, and was applied both to native and non-native speakers of Japanese; demands of instructors and international students were studied through interviews. Also, several panel sessions were held to reveal that the core merit of learning academic Japanese was that it provides the learners with one of the very few opportunities to acquire a comprehensive and refined perspective and find the pleasure of pursuing an academic interest.

Free Research Field

日本語教育