英文摘要 |
Recently, regional revitalization has become a topic of concern in Taiwan. Many universities are focusing on fulfilling their University Social Responsibility from this aspect. However, when many students are not locals, how teachers help students to understand the local area of their university and how they develop human resources who can contribute to this goal is an important issue. This study explores the educational effects of the Japanese writing instruction focused on local area. Process Writing and Project-Based Learning were employed as the instruction methods. Main data were collected from questionnaires conducted at the beginning and end of the semester to 25 intermediate and advanced learners of Japanese. Analysis of the questionnaires revealed that the students evaluated that they acquired a wide variety of skills and abilities, such as sentence composition ability, general Japanese proficiency, computer input skill, and the way of argument in Japanese etc., and a half of them changed their views on the local city. This is because they learned the history and the existence of historical heritages, social issues, and development of the city. Analysis of the worksheets that they submitted to the teacher revealed that they made progress in two types of constructive learning; knowledge constructive learning and social constructive learning. |