釜山Ｔ大学校の学生は地元の言語景観調査から何を感じたか ‒教養科目のレポートを対象とした質的分析より‒

Abstract

This study was aimed at investigating what Korean university students learnt though the fieldwork project on the linguistic landscape of Japanese in Busan, South Korea. The subjects in this study was 16 Korean T university students who were taking one of theirgeneral subject “Understanding of Japanese socio-culture”. In this course, students were requested to do the fieldwork and make a report about the linguistic landscape.Analyzing the reportsusing ethnographic method,this study focusedon; 1) where and what kind of linguistic landscape (visual signs) students were interested in, 2) the words and expressions they collected, 3) how they did their fieldwork and how they felt through the project. The result showed 1) 16 students were interested in restaurant area (Ramen shop, Japanese style bar, and other Japanese restaurant etc.) and 2) the visual signs they collected were 8 varieties store sign, menu, store curtain, poster, lantern, box, bottle and can of alcohol. The number of the words and expressions they collected were 40 and it was classified into 4 patterns; In Japanese and Korean, Only in Japanese, In Japanese and English, and Only in English. 3) Students found out the meaning of the words and expressions not only by looking in a dictionary or internet, but also by hearing and talking at their fields. This study pointed out that students found out “Understanding of Japanese sociocultural background (7 students)”, “Motivation for autonomous learning (5 students)”, “Expansion into understanding of Japanese language (3 students)”, and “Encouraging for job hunting (1 student)” during the project. Given this result, it indicated the possibility that students suppressed their stereotypestoward Korea(n) and Japan(ese) though their learning process. Additionally, this fieldwork project on the linguistic landscapecould be useful not only in improvingthe quality of Japanese learning, but also in increasing the Japanese learners.