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中学校検定教科書の語用論的観点からの分析 : 平成28年度改訂版「Sunshine English Course」を例に

Japanese (日本語)

神戸大学国際コミュニケーションセンター論集

12

79-89

神戸大学国際コミュニケーションセンター

2015

2016-04-04

This paper focuses on the analysis of MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) authorized textbooks from the viewpoint of pragmatic functions. The current Course of Study for junior high school states that in conducting language activities, teachers should focus on ‘language-use situations’ and ‘functions of language’ with lists of examples of situations and functions. First, this paper overviewed the importance of developing learners’ pragmatic competence and how pragmatic viewpoints have been incorporated in English education. Then textbooks that are to be used from 2016 were analyzed by categorizing sentences into ‘functions of language’ and speech acts. The major findings of the analysis are that the varieties of pragmatic functions in the textbooks are not very large, and that the distribution of ‘functions of language’ was uneven in the numbers of sentences for each function. Another finding is that pragmatic functions contained in a passage are more than one, although the publisher of these textbooks provides sample ‘functions of language’ as target function for each unit. From the results of this study, it is hoped that teachers pay more attention to pragmatic functions of passages in textbooks, not only to grammatical structures when they prepare lessons. Moreover, it is suggested that teachers edit textbooks or develop teaching materials out of passages in textbooks in order to develop students’ pragmatic competence.

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