電子掲示板による日本語教育の可能性

抄録

To help foreign students at our universities, the authors developed IT Bulletin Board named Plaza, to encourage Japanese language learning via discussions. At the end of the semester, a questionnaire was administered to study the following problems, unique to IT Bulletin Boards: How do the degree of computer literacy and the choice of discussion topics influence their participation in this activity and evaluation of this IT Bulletin Board. The findings were as follows: 1) Especially the low degree of computer literacy hinder them from participation, 2) The learners preferred the discussion topics with the two features, satisfaction of curiosity and needs, and interests in others.