Intelligibility of Common Terminologies for Mathematics and Physics

Abstract

When international students study mathematics and physics in Japan, they need to study terminologies in Japanese. Without understanding Japanese, it is not possible to study physics. On the other hand, in mathematics, since numbers and equations are world common, students are able to learn topics without Japanese knowledge. However, once starting university lectures, students have to understand mathematic terminologies. Otherwise, they understand quite less of contents. In this paper, intelligibility of terminologies for two subjects are surveyed, because these two subjects have several common keywords teaching by quite different method. The main purpose of this paper is to develop the student's Japanese ability, especially at mathematics. It can be seen how students learn terminologies in Japanese.