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Bulletin of the Integrated Center for Education Research and Training Volume 47
published_at 2019-03-25

異文化に関する意識向上の好機を逃す事例 : 2冊の異文化コミュニケーションテキストの評価

A missed opportunity for raising intercultural awareness : An assessment of two intercultural communication textbooks
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This paper presents an assessment of the approach used in two different textbooks to raising the intercultural awareness of young adult students of the English language. The two textbooks discussed in this paper are J-Talk and Identity both of which are published by Oxford University Press, and are commercially available in 2018. First, the paper will briefly discuss the role that cultural awareness plays within language teaching. Next, the paper will compare and contrast the two textbooks and describe the different approach to raising intercultural awareness taken by each textbook. Finally, there is a discussion of how the textbooks could be more effective at raising intercultural awareness in the students who use them. The paper will conclude by suggesting that the textbooks in question can increase intercultural awareness to a limited extent but that they will be unlikely to have a profound impact on the lives of the students who use them.
本稿では、オックスフォード大学出版局から出版された異文化理解テキストの調査を報告する。調査対象の2冊のテキストは異文化理解をテーマにした大学のEFL授業で活用することを目的とし2018年に販売されているテキストである。はじめに異文化理解と言語学習の関係を説明する。次に、本稿で調査するテキストの共通点と相違点を説明し、テキストに最も取り上げられている課題のアプローチを比較する。最後に調査したテキストを総合的に評価し、学生の異文化理解向上につながる改善案を述べる。
Creator Keywords
intercultural communication
English language education
intercultural awareness
異文化コミュニケーション
英語教育
国際理解教育