「幼稚園におけるやさしい日本語」を学部授業へ導入する試み―授業後のフィードバックから見る大学生の意識―

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The environment of kindergarten has become more international than before. To improve the circulation of information between kindergarten teachers and Non-Native-Speaker-parents (NNS-parents), lecture named ‘Easy Japanese at Kindergarten (EJK)’ was given to undergraduate students who major in Early Childhood Education (Nishio & Noyama, 2015). This paper seeks to identify students’ consciousness towards EJK by conducting a lecture feedback questionnaire. According to the questionnaire, most of the interviewees express that they are not aware of their own perspective of NNS-parents before attending the lecture. Furthermore, the fact that perspectives of NNS-parents’ are different from native speakers was also taken into account when examining students’ consciousness. At the same time, it was found that through this lecture, students became more capable in observing Japanese culture in an objective way. Therefore, this raise the issue of the way in designing a course that pays more attention in different cultures. Moreover, the results of the questionnaire show the importance of EJK by showing interviewees’ desire in making good use of EJK. However, even though they were taught how to use Japanese in an easy way, it was found that there were difficulties in changing their mindset and the way of expressing EJK through writing. In order to further facilitate the communication among students and NNS-parents, improving students’ overall ability in language becomes the most important issue in the future.