Examination of the experience-based overseas program in New Zealand: analysis of students' comments in the logbooks by text-mining procedure

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  • ニュージーランド体験型海外研修プログラムの検証 : テキストマイニングによる研修日誌の解析
  • ニュージーランド タイケンガタ カイガイ ケンシュウ プログラム ノ ケンショウ : テキストマイニング ニ ヨル ケンシュウ ニッシ ノ カイセキ

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In this paper, it is examined what impression the participants have through the experience-based overseas program in New Zealand. At the beginning of this paper several features of the program are described to show what kind of difference the program has from conventional overseas programs based on English learning. English-major students in the first year of two-year college participated in the program in August 2011 or September 2012 and wrote what they felt about it in the logbook. They gave some comments not only on the whole program but also on each activity, such as planting trees or potting seedlings as a volunteer, mingling with children at a kindergarten or a nursery, and visiting a company, a factory, a museum, and a botanical garden. Their comments are analyzed by text-mining procedure to find out if they have positive impressions or they change their view. Appearance frequencies of keywords are tested by χ square test and co-occurrence networks of keywords are examined. Most of the top 30 keywords in the overall impression are positive. The co-occurrence networks present that the participants made some new discoveries through each activity by encountering the different culture. The χ square tests on certain positive keywords clarify that the participants are satisfied with every activity in the program.

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