著者

安達 理恵

出版者

名古屋外国語大学

雑誌

名古屋外国語大学現代国際学部紀要 (ISSN:13499602)

巻号頁・発行日

no.6, pp.255-278, 2010-03

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This study focuses on the intercultural attitudes of Japanese students. The number of foreigners in Japan has increased year after year, and it is expected that there will be more opportunities for Japanese to have contact with people from different cultural backgrounds than ever. The aim of this study is to investigate the "Intercultural receptive attitude" of Japanese junior high school students and its effect factors. The intercultural receptive attitude differs from intercultural adaptation on the minority side such as outsiders or sojourners. It indicates the attitude on the majority part toward people with different cultures. The writer conducted a survey on junior high school students' attitudes toward foreigners and some influential factors in a local city in Aichi prefecture in February, 2007. This study analyzed 251 subjects and found that students have a certain amount of the intercultural receptive attitude. There are some influential factors such as kindness without bias, interests in foreign cultures, impressions of foreigners, interests in English language and interests in foreign languages spoken in Japan. The writer concluded that junior high school students' attitudes have a much simpler structure than the attitudes of older people, which can consist of two factors as was shown in her previous study and that the students' impressions of foreigners and their appreciation of human diversity have a great influence on their attitudes.