Researches on communication and the construction of the social network in multicultural society

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520568
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese language education
• Research Institution: Ochanomizu University
• Principal Investigator: SASAKI Yasuko お茶の水女子大学, 大学院人間文化創成科学研究科, 教授 (20251689)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): YANG Hong 鹿児島県立短期大学, 文学科, 准教授 (20571607) ; SHIN Sojong 東京大学, 大学院情報学環, 研究員 (40597192) ; SASAKI Mitsuo 日本大学, 商学部, 教授 (80129949)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ＳＮＳ / 非対面コミュニケーション / コミュニケーション / 無料通話アプリケーション / グローバル化 / 多言語話者 / ネットワーク / コードスイッチング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we observed the actual situation of communication between Japanese and foreign students by means of new SNS communication tools and discovered a novel insight into the Japanese language education helpful to the coexistence and cooperation of people from many different backgrounds. We carried out domestic and overseas questionnaires on the use of SNS and noticed that there is the clear diversification of non-face-to-face communication. We found that people selected the characteristics of each media according to the situation. Furthermore, we found foreign students made full use of their multilingual resources in line with useful attributes of the computer; they seemed to enjoy the game by changing the use of languages strategically from their mother tongue to Japanese or vice versa in both "typing word” and "spoken language”.

Free Research Field

日本語教育