日本留学試験実施前の学部留学生の日本語(書き方)の課題

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Recently, academic writing classes focusing on the writing of reports and papers have become more important. A survey of the faculty at the International Christian University in 1995 reports the following opinions (Ozawa 1996a) : a) To be able to write reports and papers in Japanese is important with respect to academic assessment ; b) Most of the faculty members think that "the organization of writing," "the way references are used," "content," "form," and "comprehensibility" are important as criteria for assessment. Sato and Nishina (1994) also report that international students should be able to write academic papers in their student life. This paper analyzes the writing assignments of international students, and discusses the problems international students face when writing Japanese from the viewpoints of grammar, writing style, rhetorical elements, and organization. It points out that although students are able to write sentences by using appropriate sentence patterns to describe and analyze such items as graphs and charts, they have difficulties in organizing their writing. It concludes that international students strongly need to learn how to organize their writing.
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