初級日本語学習者の「書く」技能向上のための作文授業の考察 - 高校生の会話授業を利用した作文指導の実践報告-

Abstract

In the era of globalization, "speaking" skill is considered to be more important than any other skills, as it promotes communication with others by using a language acquired. That's probably why teaching method focusing on skills to communicate and express opinions has steadily developed. Even if one's grammatical knowledge is insufficient, it is surely possible to improve speaking skill, that is based in communication-oriented conversation, to a certain extent. It could also motivate learners with self-confidence, which may lead to a love of learning as well. But in spite of actual communication skills like "listening" and "speaking", it is still essential for learners who want to apply to a Japanese university and get a job in Japan to improve written language-based skills, such as "reading" and "writing". According to a survey which was conducted before class. what the students want to do best was "speaking", while what they think the most difficult was "writing" among the four main skills. However, despite its importance, Japanese learners often choose composition that requires "writing" skill as the most difficult field. It is true that it is difficult to write in Japanese which is a foreign language. In the linguistic outputs, "speaking" and "writing", in second language acquisition, it has been known that it is hard to improve both spoken language-based "speaking" and written language-based "writing" at the same time. But in my opinion, it may be possible to achieve both at the same time depending on the method to adopt in class. It would be possible to improve both simultaneously by developing related classes together, rather than differentiating between conversation and composition. This study aims to come up with a teaching method to help Japanese language beginners improve composition writing skill.