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受講者アンケートに見る交換留学生の日本語学習ニーズ

Report on a survey on the Japanese learning needs of exchange students

神戸大学留学生教育研究

2

79-98

国際教育総合センター留学生教育部門

2018-03

2018-04-10

This paper reports the results of a survey on the Japanese learning needs of international students taking Japanese classes at the Center for International Education (CIE), Kobe University. The survey was conducted in the first semester of 2016 and the first and the second semesters of 2017. The results show that the exchange students accounted for 60% of all international students taking Japanese classes at the CIE. As well, about half of all exchange students studying in undergraduate programs at Kobe University took Japanese classes at the CIE. Moreover, 90% of the exchange students studying Japanese indicated that their aim in attending Kobe University was to improve their Japanese, and they considered it important whether a Japanese learning program was offered when they choose a university where they could study in Japan. From the average number of the classes which the exchange students took at Kobe University, they seemed to take almost as many as Japanese classes at the CIE as classes in their majors in their schools. Expressing concerns at the possibility of decreasing the number of Japanese classes, most exchange students expected it would affect their academic performance, their life in Japan, or both, while 20%-30% of the exchange students expected no influence. Considering these results, it seems very important to consider the Japanese learning needs of exchange students when the CIE revises their Japanese learning program Offering a better Japanese program could contribute to increasing the number of exchange students at Kobe University

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