Writing among Japanese High School Students : Awareness and Performance

ケンキュウノート　コウコウセイ　ニ　オケル　ジブン　ノ　カンガエ　ヲ　カクコト　ヘノ　モンダイ　イシキ

ニシモリ, アキコ

Nishimori, Akiko

三宮, 真智子

サンノミヤ, マチコ

Sannomiya, Machiko

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ キョウイクガクケイ

Department of Education, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

This paper reports on preliminary research that aimed to clarify the kinds of problems high school students have with writing. Two surveys were carried out among high school students in the Osaka Prefecture. Survey 1 aimed to explore students’ awareness with respect to writing, and Survey 2 aimed to assess their ability to write their opinion. Two points emerged from the analysis of the survey results: (1) High school students were aware that they were not good at constructing their ideas. (2) In their persuasive writing, students freely mentioned claims, but seldom mentioned reasons to support their claims. These results suggest that high school students learning how to write persuasively might benefit from a learning activity that requires them to clarify reasons for their claims, and to express these in well-constructed sentences.

三宮, 真智子