TOSAKA Yasumi    Department   Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University  Center for Language Education    Position   Lecturer
Research Period	2014/04～2017/03
Research Topic	A project for moving from the classroom to the community:The roles of Japanese teachers to facilitate students' learning and study in society
Research Type	Joint Research
Research Division	KAKENHI Research
Consignor	Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Research Program Type	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
KAKENHI Grant No.	26370623
Responsibility	Research Supporter
Representative Person	HONDA Akiko
Collaborative Researcher	ISHIMURA Fumie, KOMORI Chikae, YOSHISATO Sachiko, MATSUI Kazumi
Details	This study aims to clarify the practical role of teachers in a Japanese-language education that “connects with society.” We arranged a learning activity involving interactions between learners and native speakers (the project for moving from the classroom to the community), allowing us to survey and analyze teachers’ influence on participant perception and learning quality. The data was gathered from participant observations, audio and video recordings, interviews, and questionnaires. We analyzed the data from the three standpoints of learner, native speaker, and teacher. Our conclusion based on the results is that the type of learning activity affects how the three relate among themselves, introducing a role fluidity that brings about changes in each person’s perception, thus having an influence on the Japanese-language education that “connects with society.”