EVALUATING JAPANESE CULTURE IN ELT TEXTS

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概要

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• In past articles, the issues of how and why Japanese culture can intersect with, inform and enrich English language and literature teaching have been discussed. In particular, attention has been paid to the development of interesting curriculum models in Japan, and the simultaneous efforts of many individual college educators to include elements of Japanese traditional and modern culture in their own particular EFL pedagogy. In the present paper, this scrutiny will be extended to a wider look at the ways in which commercial ELT course texts have become increasingly designed and shaped for specific markets and learners. Selected texts, chosen to represent various functions, genres, and periods, will be compared and contrasted. How and why have certain publishers and writers sought to represent Japanese culture in a medium until relatively recently most notable for its emphasis on symbols and situations drawn from Anglo-American culture? What do our own learners think about this? As part of our research for this paper, which is also part of a larger project at Macquarie University, we surveyed several publisher representatives over several months, and asked two Study Skills classes to critically evaluate ELT texts and record their own reflections within this study.

• 活水女子大学の論文
• 2004-03-31

著者

• Allan Timothy

  活水女子大学・短期大学英語教育

• Allan Timothy

  活水女子大学・短期大学カナダ文学

• Allan Timothy

  活水女子大学

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