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Keywords
Oratory--Study and teaching--Japan; Oratory--Study and teaching; Public speaking; Japan; Academic theses;
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to reveal the state of public speaking courses in Japan. The survey was conducted as a heuristic study for future Japanese Communication Education. Six out of 80 Japanese universities or colleges participated in this survey. The sample included two private universities, two private colleges which were classified as intensive language schools, one private college which was an intensive business school and one university or college that did not indicate what kind of school it was. The three categorized data was gathered ; "Demographic Data," "the Definition of Public Speaking Course in Japan" and "Orientations toward the Public Speaking Course. " The data revealed that "English Speaking Ski !ls" was the most common topics of the public speaking courses in Japan. One of the private universities offers a public speaking course " in English." The data indicates that both Japanese college instructors and students access a public speaking course is difficult. However, Japanese instructor graduated from the U.S. Communication Department attempts to apply the U.S. public speaking program to Japanese one. This instructor creates his/her own course materials, which implies that Japanese college instructor needs a public speaking textbook to meet some instructors' needs for applying the U.S. program to Japanese one. The data also indicates that Japanese instructors are not familiar with rhetoric. As one of the skills of teaching and learning speech activities, rhetorical criticism can be useful for both Japanese college instructors and students. Another data indicates that business intensive college students access the public speaking course is useful for their job hunting. For the future research, this study attempts to make an ideal outline of the public speaking textbook for Japanese college students. The outline indicates how to apply rhetorical criticism and the U.S. academic business communication to a public speaking course.
Year of Submission
2004
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Department of Communication Studies
First Advisor
Catherine Palczewski
Second Advisor
John Burtis
Third Advisor
Paul Turman
Date Original
2004
Object Description
1 PDF file (102 leaves)
Copyright
©2004 Shoko Hayashi
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Hayashi, Shoko, "The State of Public Speaking Courses in Japanese Colleges" (2004). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2913.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2913
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