映像教材を活用した日本語授業の分析とその効果

Abstract

Based on the needs and actual status survey of Japanese language learners, this paper analyzed and investigated how Japanese class using video teaching materials help them understand Japanese language and culture and improve conversational Japanese. To attain the objective, this study reviewed the precedent literature and found out the problems to tackle. The findings are as follows. 1. It turned out that the learners are in high demand of video teaching materials, and particularly interested in "Japan's culture and society". Also, it was confirmed that video teaching materials significantly contribute to motivating and improving Japanese language learning. 2. Using the commercial video material that is effective for the education of learning culture and language learning saves the difficulty of making a video material and its educational effectiveness is also high. 3. It has been often pointed out that the effectiveness of existing video teaching materials does not reach beyond simple watching and understanding, so they do not much help the use of Japanese language. However, the results of the surveys with the learners participating in a class using video teaching materials show a great improvement in their 'speaking ability' above all, as well as in writing and listening. This can be explained by the reinforced class design mixing the activity-based conversational Japanese learning with video materials with a role play, which is effective for improving conversational Japanese. 4. The Japanese classes using video teaching materials show the learners' deepened understanding of Japanese language behaviors. In the cases where it is difficult to explain language behaviors in demand, request, and respect in text, as well as normal greeting manners based on Japanese culture, video teaching materials explain them easily, which leads to high effectiveness of Japanese.