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Offer Organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, System Name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Fund Type: -, Overall Grant Amount: - (direct: 4000000, indirect: -)
The Japanese Government started supporting foreign students with general language education and fundamental language education for their major through university international centers and foreign student facilities in Japan. As Japan has had more number of foreign students, there raised difficulties to provide university education to foreign students with the same contents as they would provide to Japanese students. It was believed that this would be caused due to differences of education background between Japan and countries that they come from.
Therefore, the research survey was carried out on textbooks of mathematics and sciences in Japan, P. R. China, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Mexico, Australia and the United States, in order to find the details of education differences between those countries. However, the survey results show that there is no significant difference found in textbooks, while the education differences have been found from optional curricula and elective styles in these country education systems.
The survey results also indicated that there are difficulties for foreign students to study practical usages of mathematical and scientific expressions, although they have general language proficiency of Japanese language. There are certain demands indicated by foreign students, the research project focuses attention on online supports of vocabulary usage studies in the areas of high school mathematics and sciences. This survey project has 2, 000 thousand vocabularies and their samples of useful expressions for university foreign students.
The project covers online supports for foreign students to learn mathematical and scientific expressions in English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean language. The original project was mostly successful, except there remains a minor assignment to improve internet security and management policies in the future.