韓国における日本語専攻者・非専攻者の日本語学習意識 - 全羅道地域の大学生を対象に -

Abstract

This is a follow-up of my survey thesis ‘On Learning Awareness of Non-Japanese Majors Learning the Japanese Language in Korea’ published last year. Students, who have learned Japanese before the time of my survey, consist of more than 74.6% of the total of study subjects. The motive the study subjects became interested in learning Japanese in the university seems to be, for Japanese majors, the elective course they took ‘as their second foreign language class of their middle or high school’ with English being the first foreign language, while for non-Japanese majors their own language acquisition efforts to have Japanese as a second or third foreign language. As to learning Japanese, both of the learners, whether majoring in Japanese or not, give a common opinion that it is harder than they initially thought-much difficult especially in grammar. As for the second reason of the difficulty, the non-majors have a hard time in ‘dictation’ while the majors have trouble in the ‘listening’ part. Furthermore, 67.5% of the majors have a feeling that ‘Overall, Japanese-learning is difficult’. Both major and non-major students wish to improve their conversation skills, and hope that teachers, whether Koreans or native speakers of Japanese, would tell them a variety of information about Japan. In addition, the majors look forward to communicating more with the native speakers while the non-majors favor Korean teachers to mingle with.