중학교 생활일본어의 교과서 내용분석

Abstract

ABSTRACT An Analysis of the Middie School Textbook of Everyday Japnaese

- focusing on contents of cultures -

Choi Sik-young Advisor: Professor Kim In-hyeon Japanese Education, Graduate School of Education, Joseon University

The 7th Revised National Curricula emphasizes the importance of cultural understanding for foreign language education. Culture is referred to as a people’s ways of life; understanding its culture means understanding its people’s lives. With a cultural collision caused by a variety of cultural communication in an informatization age, foreign language education has paid more attention to culture-centered education than language-centered education. Therefore, now it is time to give correct cultural education as well as giving curiosity about culture.

In this light, with the recognition the importance of cultural education, this paper conducts an analysis of cultural elements contained in life Japanese textbooks currently used at middle schools, on the basis of an analysis of the revised national curricula. The analysis shows that those textbooks were published in 2001 and have cultural contents and elements that are behind the times, and that they do not appeal to students. So, this paper conducts a survey of the middle school students’ interest in Japanese culture to find out what cultural contents call their attention, and what problems the Japanese classes have. On the basis of this survey, it tries to give an opinion on what directions the Japanese textbooks in the future should be edited and published in so as to play a successful role as a culture-educating material and what teaching methods arouse their interest in Japanese culture and lead students to take active part in class.