December 19: Thesis discussions

Seika’s outline

Literature review

  1. Background of non-Japanese living in Japan
  2. Process of relieving stress:
    1. Identifying stress: latent stress (imbalance between environment and self) → determining factors are not related to stress/ identifying stress → after successful identification, try coping strategies.

Methodology

  1. How you targeted respondents: Number of respondents: 64; Targeted residents in Japan.
  2. How the survey was conducted.
    • Facebook & questionnaire
      • Why was facebook chosen
  3. How the interview was conducted
    • How people for the interview were chosen
    • Type of interview that was done: free discussion, prepared questions?
      • Explain why this type of interview was chose.
  4.  Questions. Describe the questions and explain why you decided to ask these specific questions.
    1. What is your stress in Japan?
    2. How do you get rid of your stress?
    3. Where are you from?
  5. How the responses were analyzed.
    • Categorizing responses
    • Comparing categories by country

Findings

Results of the survey: Show tables and graphs and explain them.

Discussion

Compare survey results to the stress categories as well as the previous literature on non-Japanese in Japan.

Conclusion

Nao-chan

  • Nao-chan has a border of 500 points to distinguish between higher and lower level learners.
  • Most students regardless of level could not answer questions 1 and 7 correctly. He concludes that those sentences are difficult for Japanese learners.
    • 誰があなたにフランス語を教えていますか。
    • どちらのバスがその図書館に行きますか。
  • Students tended to report doing well on sentences they practiced in schools (Learning as chunks)
  • Another reason they could answer correctly is because they use the sentences when speaking with non-Japanese people.
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