ビジネス日本語会話の授業におけるジグソー学習法の試み

Abstract

In this research, I designed a lesson that incorporates the theory of collaborative learning in business Japanese lessons. The aim is for learners to learn business Japanese more meaningfully. Concrete examples of “meaningfulness” are as follows: 1) Learning subjectively rather than passive, 2) becoming more likely to remain in memory by incorporating many places of discussion, 3) increasing opportunities to speak Japanese through discussions in Japanese. In addition, in the research practice of collaborative learning, one of the objectives was to explore the problems and improvements of their own classes by considering the results. In this paper, the learning process of learner’s vocabulary selection is studied by utilizing the Jigsaw learning. As a result, I learned subjectively independently without teaching, and learned that the result of that learning was also remembered continuously afterwards. Furthermore, it was suggested that even if it was not possible to obtain correct knowledge within class hours, the learners solved the problem themselves without the help of the teacher. Also, considering the learner’s answer, it became clear that even though the correct answer was written on the surface, that way of thinking was slightly shifted.