Development Research about Intercultural Communication through Email Exchange by Lower Secondary School Students in Japan and Germany

作为本研究的理论结果，得到如下结论：它将教学交际的研究扩展到跨文化交际的研究，并加深了跨文化交际的研究，特别是关于社会能力的研究。日本人承认日本正在向多元文化社会转变，这表明日本应该把教育观念从“国际教育”转变为“跨文化教育”。将合作学习活动和媒介教育的研究结果构建为本研究适应的可能性。在上述理论研究成果的基础上，将本研究对象置于跨文化教育观、媒介教育观和合作学习活动观的接触点上。通过两年的研究，可以证明以下几点。通过英语电子邮件交流的跨文化交际对低年级学生来说是足够可能的。通过与不同文化的接触来认识自己的文化有助于形成身份认同。通过他们的实践，形成了信息伦理和使用计算机的方法和技术。他们发现日本人和德国人对环境问题的看法是不同的，因为他们对环境问题是一个全球性问题有充分的认识。他们习惯了跨文化交流和合作学习的方式，并且体验到忍耐和宽容是跨文化理解的必要条件，不仅在理解和冲突之间波动的过程，而且彼此之间保持Qf关系也很重要。我们的论证符合本课题的研究任务，进一步验证了机房的管理、学校学科教学的横断面组织、综合研究等需要快速推进相应的条件。

As theoretical results of this research, the following is given.1. It expanded research for instructional communication into research for intercultural communication and deepened it, especially about social competence.2. Japanese acknowledging that Japan has been shifting to multicultural society, it demonstrated- that it should convert pedagogical concept into "intercultural education" from "international education."3. It built the results about cooperative learning activities and media education into adaptation's being possible for this research.It placed this research object in the contact point among the intercultural education concept and the media education concept and the cooperative learning activity's concept on the basis of the above theoretical research results. The following could be proved through the two-year research.1. Intercultural communication through email exchange in English is possible sufficiently for lower secondary students.2. It contributes to forging identity to recognize self-culture by the encounter with a different culture.3. Ethics of information as well as methods and techniques to use computer is formed surely through their practices.4. They discovered that the viewpoints about environmental issues are different between Japan and Germany, as they have a sufficient understanding of them as global problems.5. They are accustomed to intercultural communication and the style of cooperative learning, and experienced that endurance and forgiveness are necessary for intercultural understanding, and that not only the process fluctuating between understanding and conflict but also maintenance Qf relationship each other is important.We demonstrated the above in line with this research tasks, furthermore could also verify that it is necessary to promote appropriate conditions quickly for management of computer room and cross-sectional organization of school subject teaching and integrated studies or the like.