2 0 0 0 OA 中学・高校から大学への懸け橋としての英語教育
- 著者
- 榊 哲
- 出版者
- 日本英語文化学会
- 雑誌
- 異文化の諸相 (ISSN:13460439)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- no.31, pp.163-176, 2011-02-25
The purpose of this paper is to discuss what lies behind the current situation where increasingly many university students need remedial classes for English in Japan, and then to try making three proposals for the issue. First, I will report what is going on in English classes in junior and senior high school, and discuss why some students get lost while they take English classes, and why they sometimes even stop studying English at the junior high school level. Next, I will discuss what may underlie the recent situation where some university students need supplementary lessons for English in Japan from the view point based on the statistical report by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Last, I will try making proposals for handling these issues with 3 points. (1) What to consider when making a syllabus for junior and senior high school, (2) Organizing small classes according to students' proficiency, and (3) Applying Second Language Acquisition research to the classroom so that more students can acquire sound basic English skills.
1 0 0 0 IR カズオ・イシグロのゴシック・モードとハイアート
- 著者
- 川口 淑子
- 出版者
- 日本英語文化学会
- 雑誌
- 異文化の諸相 (ISSN:13460439)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- no.33, pp.17-26, 2012
In Kazuo Ishiguro's "A Pale View of Hills", recollections of post-war world in Nagasaki are revealed by a decent Japanese woman Etsuko. She speaks as if communicating simple facts, but the mysterious situations or the Gothic mode unfittingly used in this story insinuates concealed tragedy or repressed feelings. Her commonplace post-war hardship and the unusual atmosphere that surrounds her successfully cover up what lies behind. But when a slight incongruity is found in Etsuko's narrative, repressed memories are given expression. In this story, the focus is placed on something that is slightly different from familiar facts. The Gothic mode employed in this story is of use to construct the international novel that Ishiguro wishes to develop. Faint unusualness that is distinct from dramatic unfamiliarity is important for this achievement. By tactfully betraying unusual parts of a plain woman little by little, Ishiguro creates a story that can be accepted by many readers, and also maintains the originality that gives the story a trait of high art.