日本語学校に通う留学生の初年次キャリア探索（ベトナム・ネパール人留学生を対象に）

抄録

This paper highlights the characteristics of career exploration in the first-year of Vietnamese and Nepalese students attending language schools in Japan which diverges from past research on Chinese and Korean students. Each study of this two-part investigation shares the same research questions, but differs in methodological approach. Study1, a questionnaire was conducted with first-year students. The factor analysis results suggested three factors for each group. The results from study 1 reveal that “Self-exploration” was most commonly expressed by Vietnamese students. “Searching for potential schools” and “Information gathering” were expressed more by Vietnamese students who have work experience. For Nepalese students, there was no differences in all factors regardless of work experience. Study 2 again examined the obtained scores from the questionnaire. It is clear that Vietnamese students’ “self-exploration” scored higher than other factors and Nepalese students’ factor score could not confirm any significant differences. These findings indicate that; 1) Vietnamese students with no work experience recognize they are in the initial stage of career exploration, 2) Vietnamese students with work experience recognize their career exploration is in the early stages, 3) for Nepalese students, their career exploration is fully focused on continuing their studies.