Development of Self-learning Multi-media Materials for International Students to Improve Communicative Abilities

今天，在日本学习的国际学生人数约为51,000人（Ministry of Education, 1997），其中90%来自亚洲国家。然而，日本大学和学院的设施和教育体系并不足以满足快速增长的国际学生的需求，这已经影响了他们最近来日本学习的动机。留学生在日本学习困难的主要原因是对制度的不服从、信息的缺乏、学习上的困难以及对日本社会的不适应。针对大学生在学习中遇到的困难，特别是在教学内容、教学方法、教学技巧等方面的问题，我们一直在推进以改进信息教育为目标的研究，帮助大学生提高信息素养。我们最重视的是提高他们的交际能力，如语言、非语言和媒体运用能力，主要有以下四点：更多的观点：(1)向留学生提供信息；(2)信息素养的培养；(3)教材的开发；(4)国际学生课堂的“教学设计与评价”和“教学技能”。在中期报告中，我们展示了一些国际学生的实际课程，调查了参与者的意见，并提到了自学多媒体材料的必要性和他们所需的教育内容大纲。在这个报告中，我们主要证明了自学多媒体材料和我们开发和使用的教科书的有效性。此外，我们还调查了日本各地大学等高等教育机构开设的主页。在这些调查和实践的结果中，我们提到了给予每个人最充分的支持和指导的重要性，以及改进我们的教育方法和技能的重要性，这些方法和技能通常也适用于日本学生，在有不同背景和准备的各种学生的班级中，并提出了课程和未来指导国际学生的真正要求。少

Today, the number of international students studying in Japan amounts to about 51,000 (Ministry of Education, 1997), and 90% of them come from Asian countries. However, the facilities and educational systems at universities and colleges are not good enough for rapidly increased international students, which has been interrupting their motivations to study in Japan recently.The main problems concerned with difficulties of international students studying in Japan should be considered to derive from deference of institution, lack of information, troubles of study, and maladjustment to Japanese society. As to their troubles of study, especially to the instructional contents, methods and skills, we have been promoting the research to aim at improvement of informatics education, which help them improve information literacy. We have thought most of improvement of their communicative abilities such as verbal, non-verbal and media-utilized communication skills, picking up the following 4 points … More of view : (1) information to international students, (2) training of information literacy, (3) development of instructional materials, and (4) "instructional designing and evaluation" and "instructional skills" in the classes for international students.In the interim report we showed some actual classes for international students, investigated the participants' opinions, and mentioned the necessity of self-learning multimedia materials and the outline of the educational contents necessary for them.In this report we mainly proved the effectiveness of the self-learning multimedia materials and the textbooks we had developed and utilized. Furthermore we investigated homepages opened by higher educational institutions such as universities all over Japan.In consequence of these investigation and practice we mentioned the importance of giving most adequate support and guidance to each individual, and improving our educational methods and skills that are commonly adapted to Japanese students as well, in the classes where there are a variety of students of different backgrounds and readiness, and proposed the curriculum and what is really requested in the future guidance of international students. Less