STUDY ON DEVELOPING A TEXTBOOK FOR TEACHING ACADEMIC WRITING TO FOREIGN STUDENTS

留学生学术写作教材开发研究

• 批准号: 08680321
• 负责人: NITSU Nobuko
• 金额: $ 0.83万
• 依托单位: HOKKAIGAKUEN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1996 至 1997
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-08680321/
• 关键词: Japanese Language Teaching; Academic Writing; Making Students Conscious of One's Thinking Process; Functions of Experssions of Written Language; 作文教材

The purpose of this study is developing a textbook for teaching academic writing to foreign students, which aims at enabling students to learn how to think logically, organize their thoughts, and write papers Which fit the purpose of writing in matter and the style.Before starting to make a textbook we did the following :1.sorting out main problems found in compositions written by foreign students ;2.sending out questionnaries to cooleagues as to how and what they want their Japanese students to write for term papers ;3.examining what items of instruction are picked up in Japanese and English textbooks for academic writing.Based on the data gained from the above research we selected indispensable function of expressing logical organization such as 'classification', 'definition', 'comparision and constrast', etc., and designed the syllabus of the course and the structure of each lesson. Then we collected reading materials which included examples of each function and also current topics, … More made questions to help students comprehend the text, and listed the patterns of the expressions.Having tested this trial material in six different classes for one year and made improvement based on the findings from our practical use, we made the first textbook before the beginning of next term. After another one year testing and further improvement the second textbook presented this time was made.The findings from this study reveal that a textbook of academic writing for foreign students should contain instruction in the following items :1.fundamental knowledge and skills about writing a composition in Japanese such as the items included in the first part of the textbook ;2.methods of describing facts objectively ;3.methods of thinking logically ;4.methods of organizing one's thoughts to be understood clearly by readers ;5.methods of being conscious of one's writing and evaluating one's product of writing ; and that the reading materials should play the following roles :1.to show how the functions of expressing logical organization work in the text and what patterns of expressions are usedfor that ;2.to show how the text of logical writing is structured ;3.to give a background knowledge about current events in the society. Less

本研究的目的是开发一本外国学生学术写作教学教材，旨在让学生学会如何逻辑思考、组织思想，并写出符合写作目的和风格的论文。为了制作一本教科书，我们做了以下工作：1.整理外国学生作文中发现的主要问题；2.向cooleagues发送调查问卷，询问他们希望日本学生如何以及写什么学期论文；3.检查什么挑选教学项目根据上述研究所得的数据，我们选取​​了“分类”、“定义”、“比较”等表达逻辑组织中不可缺少的功能，并设计了教学大纲然后我们收集了阅读材料，其中包括每个功能的示例以及当前主题，提出问题以帮助学生理解文本，并列出表达的模式。对此进行了测试。我们在六个不同班级进行了一年的试用，并根据实际使用的结果进行了改进，在下学期开始之前，我们制作了第一本教材，经过一年的测试和进一步改进，我们制作了这次推出的第二本教材。本研究结果表明，留学生学术写作教科书应包含以下几项内容的指导：1．日语作文写作的基础知识和技能，如教科书第一部分中的项目；2．客观描述事实的方法；3.思维方法逻辑上；4.组织思想以便读者清楚理解的方法；5.意识到自己的写作和评价自己的写作成果的方法；阅读材料应发挥以下作用：1.展示写作的功能。表达文本中的逻辑组织工作以及为此使用的表达模式；2. 展示逻辑写作文本的结构；3. 提供有关社会时事的背景知识。