A Research on the Relationship between Japanese Language Learning Process and Learning Environment of the Research Student in the In-service Teacher Training Program

本研究旨在探讨留学生在职培训教师的日语习得与学习环境之间的关系，在本研究的第一年即2001年，我们对参加过四次大坂大学日语强化班的10名留学生进行了访谈。通过半结构式访谈，调查对象对留学目的的认同、对日语学习的信念、对日语习得过程的认同、与实验室内外学习环境的互动、网络的形成等方面的认知。同时，对实验室成员进行访谈（教授和官员）进行了多维度的学习环境的调查。作为访谈的结果，观察到学员和实验室成员之间在课程内容的形象和活动的多样性方面存在差异，以及网络的不均匀分布。在研究的第二年，2002年，我们进行了一项基于问卷的调查，以获得有关在职培训计划学习环境的更一般性信息。问卷分发的大学，容纳在职教师培训生，我们收到了来自52所大学的答案。结果表明，多数高校没有为海外留学生安排专门的培训项目。一些为海外学员提供特殊培训的大学停止了这类项目。这被认为是由于接收海外学员的大学数目增加，每所院校的学员人数减少。

This study examined the relationship between the acquisition of Japanese and learning environment by the members of in-service training teachers from overseas program.Through the first year of this study, 2001, we conducted we conducted interviews to the 10 of the trainees who, at the time of the investigation, attended Intensive Japanese Program at Osaka University for four times. The following dimensions of the subjects' recognition were reported through the half-structured interviews ; (1) recognition of the aim of study abroad, (2) beliefs on Japanese language learning, (3) recognition of the process of Japanese language acquisition, (4) interaction with the learning environment in and out of their laboratories, (5) formation of network. At the same time, interviews to the laboratory members (professors and officers) were conducted to examine the learning environment multi-dimensionally.As the result of the interviews conducted, differences concerning images of the contents of program and the varieties k)f the activities between trainees andlaboratory members and the uneven distribution of the networks were observed.In the second year of the study, 2002, we conducted a questionnaire-based survey to obtain more generalized information on the learning environment of the in-service training program. The questionnaires were distributed the universities which accommodated in-service teacher trainees and we received answers from 52 universities. The results shows that, in most universities, there were no specially arranged program for the trainees from overseas. Some universities which had offered special training programs for the overseas trainees discontinued the programs of this kind. This is considered to be related to the decline of the number of trainees per institutions as the number of the universities which accommodated overseas trainees increase.