Abstract
Although report writing has been used as an important test of the knowledge and skills that students have learned in a course, little research has been undertaken on its role in the process of learning Japanese. In this study, I report on four courses in which I incorporated report projects, 1) Japanese writing and 2) Japanese culture for foreign students, and 3)Japanese rhetoric and 4)Japanese sociolinguistics for Japanese undergraduate students. Results showed that ways of choosing topics and data for the reports, publication on the Web site or as a collection of reports, and in-class discussion of the expressions and contents of each report were crucial for the effectiveness of the course.
