Survey on the Japanese for Social Sciences, the Database and the Teaching Material

本研究的目的在于分析日本社会科学教材的特点，以便为外国学生开发社会科学教材。主要的分析工具是以下三个指标：1。单词和短语的简单频率；2 .词汇和表达之间的有机关联；术语的概念优先级。第一个和第二个是统计指标，第三个是各领域专家的估计。因此，语言教师与社会科学教师的合作就显得尤为重要。经济学课本中已经出现了有趣的结果。我们必须继续在社会科学的其他领域。

The purpose of this resarch is to analyze the characteristics of the Japanese texts in social sciences in order then to develop teaching materials for foreign students. The main tools of analysis was the following three indicators : 1. simple frequencies of words and expressions, 2. organic correlations between words and expressions, 3. conceptual priorities of terms. The first and the second were statistical indicators and the third the estimations of the experts of each field. For this reason the cooperation between the Language teachers and the teachers of social sciences has been highly important. Interesting results exsist already for texts of Economics. And we have to continue in other fields of social sciences.