Research on Developing a Database of Teaching Materials for Kanji Vocabulary in Specific Academic Fiel

为了让外国人在日语学习中掌握汉字和汉字词汇，我们开发了中级水平的特定学术领域的汉字用法教材。汉字词汇的习得可以比作树木的生长。汉字的基本知识，形、音、义、用，构成了树的根基，根基越坚实，树的潜在高度就越大。随着学习者的进步，他们将分支到自己的特定学科领域，拥有自己的专业汉字空缺，但在此之前，他们必须通过上主干，在那里找到我们所说的“学术领域通用汉字”--那些经常出现在报纸和杂志文章中的汉字及其组合。教育与心理学领域、科学与技术领域、经济与管理领域、生物与医学领域、政治与国际关系领域。然后，为了开发出有效的教材，我们对各个领域中经常出现的汉字词汇进行了调查。

In order to make foreign learners possible to master kanji and kanji vocabulary in Japanese language learning, we developed teaching materials of Kanji usages in specific academic fields for intermediate levels.The acquisition of kanji vocabulary can be likened to the growth of a tree. The basic knowledges about kanji ; shapes, sounds, meanings and usages, form the base root of the tree, the more solid the base root the greater the potential height of the tree. As the learners progress, they will branch off into their specific subject area with their own specialist kanji vacabulary but before that they must pass through the upper trunk where what we call "common kanji in academic fields" - those kanji and their combinations which appear frequently in newspaper and magazine articles of various academic fields - are to be found.At the beginning of this project, we set up five major fields ; field of education and psychology, field of science and technology, field of economics and management, field of biology and medical science, field of politics and international relations. Then, we made an investigation on kanji vocabulary which are frequently appear in each field to develop the effective teaching material.