日本人を《考える葦》にするための言語教育

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It has been widely acknowledged that the younger generation of Japanese today, including school children, high school and university students and new company employees, have astonishingly poor intellectual competence The author finds two major factors for this phenomenon: one is the traditional teaching methodology of Japanese, or Kokugo, and the other is the contemporary university entrance examination system. The traditional teaching methodology of Japanese has been emotively oriented, putting more emphasis on using the language to express one's feeling and less or no emphasis on using it to convey one's thought. University entrance examinations, which mainly comprise memory tests, are a by-product of this one-sided approach to the language teaching. In order to remedy this deficiency, the author proposes to reform the old methodology of teaching Kokugo, and introduces a logically-oriented methodology of teaching Japanese, which comprises three categories: the first is integration of the teaching of English and that of Japanese, the second, the logically-oriented approach to reading literature, and the third, integration of the teaching of language and that of other subjects or disciplines. The new methodology, the author hopes, will produce the Japanese who will be able to think and stand on their own feet.
青山学院女子短期大学の論文
2002-12-10