The Development of Basic Japanese Listening and Speaking Curriculum for Elderly Care

Abstract

This research has 3 objectives: 1) to develop the basic Japanese listening and speaking curriculum for elderly care, 2) to compare the basic Japanese listening and speaking skill for elderly care before and after using the curriculum, and 3) to study the satisfaction of the students who use this curriculum. The population in this research are the students who studying and the ones who graduated from the certificate of practical nursing curriculum and the curriculum of health care in public and private schools, the other groups are the people who interested in taking part in the development of basic Japanese listening and speaking skill for elderly care. The samples in this research are from the purposive selection. They are 13 students who want to take part in this research. The instruments are: 1) the interview about needs and problems of the worker who care the elderly people in Japan, 2) the basic Japanese listening and speaking curriculum for elderly care and handbook of using the curriculum, 3) the evaluation form of basic Japanese listening and speaking curriculum for elderly care, and 4) the satisfaction questionaries for the students towards the curriculum. Data analyzed by mean and standard deviation. The findings of this research are: 1) the workers who cares the elderly people need to develop the listening and speaking Japanese in daily life, how to take a shower, how to communicate with elderly people and the duties of the elderly care, the polite or honorific language in the workplace, 2) the basic Japanese listening and speaking curriculum for elderly care is very suitable, 3) the scores of basic Japanese listening and speaking curriculum for elderly care after studying is higher than before studying, and 4) the satisfaction of the students towards the studying in the basic Japanese listening and speaking for elderly care is in the highest level.