A study of vocabularies used in the Japanese speaking tour conductor and tour guide tests in Taiwan

• Main Authors: I-Ling Lin, 林怡伶
• Other Authors: Hsin-Su Huang
• Format: Others
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47590586218350430177

碩士 === 義守大學 === 應用日語學系碩士班 === 99 === According to the statistic data released by Tourism Bureau, Taiwan, the number of Japanese visiting Taiwan was the most among the foreign tourists in 2008 and 2009. Furthermore, in 2010, the number of Taiwan tourists traveling to Japan climbed to 1 million. In view of this, we know that J Japanese speaking tour conductors and Japanese speaking tour guides play decisive roles in Taiwan tourism industry. From 2004 on, the tests of tour conductors and tour guides in Taiwan have been held by Ministry of Examination of the Examination Yuan of Taiwan. This research took the tests of tour conductors and tour guides from 2004 to 2010 as the research subjects and preceded the vocabulary survey. Through the statistics of syntactic function and origin of vocabulary, the vocabularies used by the tour conductors and tour guides were understood. Besides, in contrast to the vocabulary list of the Japanese test criterion, the vocabulary grade distribution of the tests of tour conductors was examined with metrology. The research results showed that the ratio of “particle” was the highest among the statistic results of the syntactic function, followed by “noun”. As for the statistic results of the origin of vocabulary, the ratio of traditional Japanese was the highest. In addition, regarding the grade statistic result, the vocabularies of grade 4 were the most, and those of grade 2 were the second.