Research Project on Teaching and Hosting Foreigh Students

在本研究项目的最后一年，我们对神户大学原留学生进行了问卷调查，问卷的题目是《关于留学生教学与接待的研究项目》。我们向世界上54个国家(包括日本国内)发送了499个帖子，主要发到了亚洲地区。日本境内有48个岗位。回收的问卷有124个，占全部499个帖子的24.9%。返回岗位的国家(地区)如下。中国28人，台湾19人，韩国11人，东南亚和南亚28人，中南美洲13人，美国8人，澳大利亚5人，加拿大2人，几内亚1人。综上所述，重要的是：(1)导致每个留学生不满的主要因素是什么？我们认为这是留学生事务中最有趣的问题。本研究项目的结果表明，与此相关的主要因素是每个留学生对自身日语能力的自我评价。除此之外，有时“附加因素”也变得很重要。一般来说，我们可以断言，每个留学生的满意/不满意意识是“需求水平”和“成就水平”之间的函数。例如，可以说，在攻读博士学位的情况下，我们也可以用这个假设来解释来自美国或欧洲的留学生的满意度相对较高，而来自亚洲国家的留学生的满意度相对较高。也有日本人对欧美留学生和亚洲留学生态度不同的因素。

In the last year of our research project, we performed the questionnaire to the foreign students that formerly belonged to Kobe University.The title of the questionnaire is "Research Project on Teaching and Hosting Foreign Students". We sent 499 posts to the 54 nations in the world (and inside Japan) mainly to Asian areas. There was 48 posts to the areas inside Japan. Returned questionnaire are 124 posts, that is 24.9% in the whole 499 posts. Nations (areas) of returned posts are as the following. 28 posts from China, 19 from Taiwan, 11 from Korea, 28 from Southeast Asia and South Asia as a whole, 13 from Middle and South America, 8 from United States of America, 5 from Australia, 2 from Canada, 1 from Guinea.To sum up, followings are important: (1) What is the main factor which causes or correlated to the dissatisfaction of each foreign student ? We think this is the most interesting problem in the matter of foreign students affairs. The results of this research project positively show that the main factor correlated to is the self-estimation of each foreign student's own ability on Japanese Language. Besides that, sometimes the "additional factors" become important. In this case, the "additional factors" mean that the way of the selection of the thesis or selection of the guidance professor.In general, we can assert that the consciousness of satisfaction / dissatisfaction of each foreign students is the function between the "level of demand " and the " level of achievement". For example, it can be said that in the case of taking doctorial degree, and we can also explain by this hypothesis that the relatively high level of satisfaction of the foreign students from U.S.A. or Europe and dissatisfaction of those from Asian countries. It also exists the factors that concerns the difference of attitude of Japanese people to the foreign students who are from U.S.A. or Europe and from Asian countries.