한국일본학회

This is a research paper on practices in​ the ​Intensive Japanese Language Program(IJLP) that took place at University K in the first semester of 2014. This program is for students who intend to live in a dormitory for one semester, who attend Japanese major courses during the week, who concentrate on taking classes that only use Japanese from the evening, and who use Japanese when dining and interacting with others the dormitory. Based on previous practices, we corrected the course objectives into the following four items in the first semester of 2014. ①Learn to be able to use Japanese habitually by being fully exposed to a Japanese-using environment. ②Increase the communication ability in Japanese and improve the ability to perform tasks. ③Improve the intercultural comprehension ability (be able to understand and express feelings when encountering Japanese culture.) ④Be able to deepen connections with Japanese people and colleagues, through activities in Japanese. All four objectives produced certain outcomes. However, neither a self-evaluation checklist focusing on language skills, nor a checklist of understandings regarding the psychological, social, and cultural aspects of the Japanese people and Japan were available in the first semester of 2014 and would have to be prepared for further research about the topic.