e-Learning Implementation on IT-Supported Self-Study of Mathematics for Foreign Students

日本政府开始通过日本的大学国际中心和外国留学生设施，为外国留学生提供普通语言教育和专业基础语言教育。由于日本的外国留学生数量越来越多，因此很难向外国留学生提供与日本学生相同的大学教育内容。有人认为，这可能是由于日本和他们来自的国家之间的教育背景不同造成的。因此，本研究对日本、中国、韩国、台湾、印度尼西亚、保加利亚、墨西哥、澳大利亚和美国的数学和科学教科书进行了研究调查，以找出这些国家之间教育差异的细节。然而，调查结果显示，在这些国家的教育制度中，在教科书方面没有发现显著的差异，而在选修课程和选修方式方面发现了教育差异。调查结果还表明，外国学生虽然具有日语的一般语言能力，但在学习数学和科学表达的实际用法方面存在困难。由于外国学生有一定的需求，本研究项目将重点放在高中数学和科学领域词汇使用研究的在线支持上。本调查项目为大学留学生提供了200万个词汇及其常用表达样本。该项目包括在线支持外国学生学习英语、日语、汉语和韩语的数学和科学表达。最初的项目基本上是成功的，除了在未来改进互联网安全和管理政策方面还有一个小任务。

The Japanese Government started supporting foreign students with general language education and fundamental language education for their major through university international centers and foreign student facilities in Japan. As Japan has had more number of foreign students, there raised difficulties to provide university education to foreign students with the same contents as they would provide to Japanese students. It was believed that this would be caused due to differences of education background between Japan and countries that they come from.Therefore, the research survey was carried out on textbooks of mathematics and sciences in Japan, P. R. China, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Mexico, Australia and the United States, in order to find the details of education differences between those countries. However, the survey results show that there is no significant difference found in textbooks, while the education differences have been found from optional curricula and elective styles in these country education systems.The survey results also indicated that there are difficulties for foreign students to study practical usages of mathematical and scientific expressions, although they have general language proficiency of Japanese language. There are certain demands indicated by foreign students, the research project focuses attention on online supports of vocabulary usage studies in the areas of high school mathematics and sciences. This survey project has 2, 000 thousand vocabularies and their samples of useful expressions for university foreign students.The project covers online supports for foreign students to learn mathematical and scientific expressions in English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean language. The original project was mostly successful, except there remains a minor assignment to improve internet security and management policies in the future.