日本における短期研修の教育的効果に関する考察 ― 日本語能力と情意面の変化に注目して ―

Abstract

A Study on the Educational Effect of Short-term Training in Japan : Focusing on Changes in Japanese Proficiency and Emotions In this study, based on the results of the composition test conducted before and after the short-term training in Japan, we focused on participants with significantly improved Japanese proficiency and those without, and analyzed whether the results were related to changes in emotional aspects such as understanding foreign culture and learning motivation. We asked three external Japanese teachers to evaluate the composition test conducted before and after the training, and compared them using t-test. The result of the composition test showed a significant increase of skills in the participants as a whole. However, according to the comparison of participants, participants in the lower-grade group showed a significant increase, while participants in the higher-grade group showed no significant increase. Therefore, it was verified through text mining using interview data conducted on participants whether participants who showed a significant growth changed positively in terms of emotions, and participants who did not show a significant growth showed no positive changes in terms of emotions. Correspondence analysis was performed using KH Coder when using text mining. The result showed that both those with improved grades and those without had a better cross-cultural understanding and motivations to learn. Furthermore, the emotional changes of the participants in the higher-grade group were characterized by being more specific and objective in comparison with their home countries and acquisition of future visions than the participants in the lower-grade group. From the above, it was found about this training that although the participants in the lower grades showed a marked improvement in Japanese proficiency, there was no correlation between the test results and the emotional changes, and the emotional aspects of both changed positively.