General study on the sociolinguistic basis of Japanese language education

为A、B和C工作组举行了会议，还为整个工作组举行了学习会议。以“日语教育的社会语言学基础”为题发表了全体报告。A组（东京语综合组）：完成了视觉资料的记录和录音对话的转录。对大学生和初中生及其家长进行了关于语言使用情况的全国邮政调查。部分数据立即被计算机化，国家分布图载于上述报告。B组（东京语篇组）：用录像记录学术会议的情况。这一组旨在对“元话语”或对话语内容的评论进行国际比较。语篇分析也是以电影光盘为基础进行的。《日语教育的社会语言学基础领域的教育信息化》的抄本已印刷并分发给有关学者。本课题旨在通过提取语言的普遍性和语言的特殊性，对日语教育和语言教育的整体进行理论开发和应用。C组（西日本外国人谈话组）：调查外国人对日语能力的评价，并能够衡量居住在日本农村的学生的最终成就。本文将外国人的话语纳入研究范围，并将语言在词域中的转换统一在一个理论框架内。这些论文载于上述报告。出版了一份参考书目，并以“1987-1992年社会语言学论文书目清单，日本社会语言学”的名称发行。

Meetings were held for working groups A,B and C.A study meeting was also held for the whole group. A report of the whole group was published in the name of "Sociolinguistic Basis in Japanese language education".Group A (Tokyo language variety group) : This group accomplished recordings of visual data and transcription of tape-recorded conversation. National postal surveys on language use were made for university students and Junior high school pupils and their parents. A part of the data was instantly computerized and national distribution maps were presented in the report above. Ratio of usage of the standard Japanese forms was also calculated.Group B (Tokyo discourse group) : In this group situations of presenting academic conferences were recorded by videos. This group aims at international comparison of "meta-speech" or comments on content of discourse. Discourse analysis was also executed on the basis of Movies recorded on Laser Disk. The transcription "Education Informationalization in the domain of sociolinguistic basis of Japanese language education" was printed and distributed among the scholars concerned. This group aims at theoretical development and application to Japanese language education and language education in general by extracting language universal and language specific characteristics.Group C (West Japan foreigner talk group) : This group surveyed evaluation of Japanese language skills used by foreign residents, and enables to measure ultimate achievement among students who live in the country-side of Japan. Foreigner talk was taken into account and language shift in the domains of words are treated in a unified theory. The papers were presented in the report above. A bibliography was published and distribution the name of "Bibliographical List of sociolinguistic papers 1987-1992, sociolinguistics in Japan"