著者

澤田 田津子

出版者

奈良教育大学

雑誌

奈良教育大学紀要. 人文・社会科学 (ISSN:05472393)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.50, no.1, pp.147-157, 2001-10

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In the textbooks of Japanese for intermediate level, some sentences are difficult for students to understand because they do not have enough knowledge abour Japanese cultural background. Where and when do students acquire knowledge about Japanese culture? Usually, cultural background is taught in NIHON-JIJO classes. What topics in Japanese culture -especially modern culture- should be taught to students? Those suitable for elementary level, have been already discussed in SAWADA(1999). The purpose of this paper is to select topics concerning modern Japanese culture that 1 think it is better to introduce in NIHON-JIJO intermediate level classes. With this aim, the following procedure is used. The cultural topics in 7 different intermediate language textbooks and 3 different NIHON-JIJO textbooks are listed and compared. This comparison shows that there are some ditferences between language textbooks and NIHON-JIJO textbooks conecerning cultural topics. I come to the conclusion that modern Japanese culture should be introduced to students in NIHON-JIJO classes, and then, they will easily understand all the sentences in language textbooks. For this purpose, a syllabus of NIHON-JIJO for students studying intermediate Japanese is introduced in this paper.