言語教育の教科書におけるステレオタイプ化について(Part I)

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This study explores how language school textbooks get involved with the issues of images and stereotypes. For example, a survey has found that the images and knowledge of Alaska tend to be stereotyped not only by various mass media but also by Japanese / English textbooks used in elementary, junior high, or high schools. But a question still remains why contemporary language learners have fixed ideas or images from the subject matters of Alaska in the school textbooks. The purpose of this paper is to examine a possible answer to this research question through language textbook analysis (with language textbooks in both Japanese and English elementary to high schools), followed by suggestions for avoiding the stereotypes. The issue of stereotypes is generally discussed in terms of theme of cross-cultural understanding in the field of language education. However, in this study, more focus is placed on the problems and solutions, of the stereotypical images concerning the matters for textbooks as well as Japanese curriculums that are related to developing a closer tie with Japanese and English language education.
2013-03-31