Study on Changes in Japanese Oral Proficiency and japanese Language Use Environment regarding Post-graduate Students after Completed Six-Month Intensive Japanese Language Training Course

1.研究目的：本研究试图描述完成六个月日语强化课程的留学生口语水平的纵向变化，并探讨这些变化与日语使用环境和课后日语学习的关系。在学生完成课程后，每三个月给他们安排一次数据口头访谈和另外两个口语任务。24名学生参与了这个项目，在两年的时间里进行了114次访谈。通过问卷调查的方式对日语使用情况和语言学习情况进行调查。结果发表了两篇研究报告，一篇发表于1994年，另一篇发表于1996年。第一份报告包括14份中期报告，主要是关于问卷调查的结果。第二份报告包含14篇论文，主要是对口语数据的分析结果。将语音数据中的L2数据库和CHILDES部分数据转换成JCHAT格式，便于计算机分析。第二语言口语计算机数据库的建立是剩余的任务。

1. Purpose :This research project is an attempt to describe longitudinal changes in oral proficiency found in the utterances of international students who have completed six-month intensive Japanese language course, and to investigate the relationship between the changes and the Japnese language use environment and Japanese language study after the course.2. DataOral interviews together with two other speaking tasks were given to the students every three months after they completed the course. 24 students participated in this project and 114 interviews were conducted over the period of two years. Survey was also conduct on Japanese language use and language study by means of questionnaire.3. ResultsTwo research reports have been published, one in 1994 and the other in 1996. The first report contains 14 interim reports mainly on the result of questionnaire. The second report contains 14 papers mainly on the results of analysis of spoken data.4. L2 Data base and CHILDESPart of the spoken data was transormed into JCHAT fromat in CHILDES so that the data can be analyzed by computer. creation of L2 spoken language computer data-base is the remaining task.