高 民定, 村岡 英裕
千葉大学大学院人文社会科学研究科研究プロジェクト報告書 = Chiba University Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project Reports 292(292) 125-145 2015年2月28日
[Abstract] As globalization in the society advances, the language environment in Japan has become more and more diverse, reflected by the increasing number of communicative situations in languages other than Japanese. It is obvious that many of the foreign residents in Japan are transnational in nature and this may have affected their linguistic repertoires as well as their awareness on language use. At the same time, it can be expected that there are different types of language management in contact situations that they are currently experiencing and in those situations they experienced in the past marked with strong "contactedness" (cf. Fan 2006). As a pilot study, a survey based on a questionnaire was conducted in order to find out how foreign residents in Japan use and evaluate languages in various types of situations, and what kinds of communication problems they face. Altogether, answers from 35 international students in a university and 28 non-students living in the Tokyo metropolitan area were collected. This report presents the findings related to their language use by looking at how they self-evaluate their Japanese language ability and their linguistic profiles.