著者

丸山 千歌 小澤 伊久美

出版者

横浜国立大学留学生センター

雑誌

横浜国立大学留学生センター教育研究論集 (ISSN:18810632)

巻号頁・発行日

no.18, pp.33-52, 2011

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Japanese language textbooks include information about Japanese society and Japanese culture as Japanese learners tend to be interested in such topics (Kondoh and Maruyama, 2001:101) and one of the most important purposes for Japanese learners is to get knowledge of Japanese habitual customs and culture (Byram, 1997:45; Kumagaya, 2008:213). On the other hand, Japanese language education has been criticized from other fields of research, as in the case of a sociologist who saw Japanese teachers as reproducing Nihonjinron (Theories of Japanese uniqueness) enthusiastically discussed between the 1970's and the beginning of the 1980's (Yoshino, 1997), and a comment from a intercultural education scholar who criticized Japanese teachers for their inadequate sensitivity towards cultural stereotypes (Kurachi, 2003). An important point of our research is the analysis of the influence of stereotypical information in Japanese textbooks to Japanese learners. In addition because of the indication that the Japanese teachers who lie between the textbook and Japanese learners reinforces the cultural stereotypes on the textbooks, we are going to investigate how the Japanese teachers recognize the stereotypical information in Japanese textbooks. This paper reports the result of the pilot investigation towards 11 Japanese teachers with full teaching experience. It points out the existence of the Japanese teachers who have awareness of the stereotypes on the Japanese text, the inclination of the points they point out as stereotypical information differing from Kurachi(2003), and the individual differences of judgment based on their individual experiences.