著者

西 俊六

出版者

盛岡大学

雑誌

盛岡大学紀要 (ISSN:02860643)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, pp.178-160, 2006-03-30

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According to the announced "OECD Investigation of Learning Arrival Degree" (PISA), it has become clear that the scholarship of Japanese students has fallen in terms of reading comprehension, including a logical intellectual power. Responding to this, the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture has mapped out a revised course of study that took the training of "PISA-type Reading Comprehension Abilities" into consideration. In the sectional meeting of the Central Council of Education, the Ministry is going to implement these new tools of learning in their "Reading Comprehension Improvement Program" and has said that they will distribute them to elementary and junior high schools in the future. Thus, a new item of "Conveying Ability" was added to the objectives of national language in the existing course of study. "Conveying Ability" is the ability that can adequately promote a smooth mutual transmission of language and understanding of expression by precisely expressing language, and while respecting another's situation and thought in relation to one on one interaction. It is necessary for a language department to foster the student's will and manner that are linked with making good human relations and building a healthy society by the promotion of this "Conveying Ability" in our schools. At this time, I will try to present a way to foster a "Thinking-type of reading" as stated in the novel, "Rashomon", written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, which is included in the "National Language integration".