Development at workshop-based education program for fostering foreign student's self-directive discussion abilities

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The purpose of this study is to develop a new educational program for foreign students of Japanese universities that is designed to foster their discussion abilities in Japanese. Recently, the number of foreign students in Japan has been increasing. They are expected to become members of Japanese society and contribute to the globalization and the realization of multi-culturalism in Japan. To achieve this, not only Japanese but also foreign people are required to acquire discussion skills to enable them to cooperate with each other to reach a consensus as well solve problems. With this background, we developed the workshop-based learning program for foreign undergraduates in which they acquire self-supporting discussion abilities in Japanese.