A Study Aimed at Designing Supplementary Textbooks of Japanese Language to Help Non-Native School Children Understand Japanese Textbooks for Different Subjects.

我们目前有1万多名外国儿童需要在学校学习日语。他们大多是生存日语的快速学习者，在常规科目的教科书中使用书面日语时，他们在理解日语方面存在许多问题。这种现象在学龄儿童中更为明显，因此人们迫切希望帮助这些孩子。我们的研究旨在开发辅助教科书，帮助非母语的日本学校儿童与其他日本儿童一起理解课程。当非母语人士在母语人士的课堂上学习日语时，这一点尤其重要。我们对小学日语教材进行分析，以了解句子水平和词汇水平的模式或趋势。在这些资料的基础上，我们寻找对外国儿童有用的补充教材。关于日语的另一个重要的考虑是，当用日语授课时，在课堂上讲日语比写日语课本更让非日本儿童感到困扰。为了满足这些需求，我们希望继续进一步研究在教科书和课堂上使用日语。

We currently have more than 10,000 foreign children who need to learn Japanese in schools. Being mostly fast learners of survival Japanese, they have many problems understanding written Japanese when used, in textbooks of regular subjects. This phenomenon is more obvious in order school children so there is an urgent desire to help these children.Our study is aimed at developing supplementary textbooks for helping non-native Japanese school children understand classes with other Japanese children. This is especially important in language classes when non-native speakers study Japanese language in classes for native speakers. We analyzed Japanese language textbooks of primary schools in order to see the patterns or tendencies concerning the level of sentences and vocabulary. On the basis of the data, we searched for supplementary textbooks which could be useful for foreign children.Another important consideration about Japanese is when classes are conducted in Japanese, spoken Japanese in a class situation bothers non-Japanese children more than written Japanese textbooks. In order to meet these needs, we would like to continue further studies concerning the use of Japanese both in textbooks and classes.