Acts of Reading Exploring Connections in Pedagogy of Japanese
Acts of Reading: Exploring Connections in Pedagogy of Japanese

Students who have completed a year of German read Brecht in their second year, those of Spanish read Cervantes. Teachers of first and second-year Japanese can often find nothing comparable. "Why aren't your students reading literature?" they are asked. "Why not Soseki? Or Murakam...

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Hauptverfasser: Nara, Hiroshi (VerfasserIn), Noda, Mari (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Honolulu University of Hawaii Press [2002]
Schlagworte:
Kuki, Shūzō > 1888-1941
Geschichte 1930-1940
Japanese language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers
Reading
Phänomenologie
Japanischunterricht
Ästhetik
Philosophie
Geschmack > Ästhetik
Japan
Aufsatzsammlung
Online-Zugang:DE-859
DE-860
DE-739
DE-473
DE-1046
DE-1043
DE-858
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Zusammenfassung:Students who have completed a year of German read Brecht in their second year, those of Spanish read Cervantes. Teachers of first and second-year Japanese can often find nothing comparable. "Why aren't your students reading literature?" they are asked. "Why not Soseki? Or Murakami?" What are instructors of Japanese doing wrong?Nothing, according to the authors of this volume. Rather, they argue, such questions exemplify the gross misunderstandings and unreasonable expectations of teaching reading in Japanese. In Acts of Reading, the authors set out to explore what reading is for Japanese as a language, and how instructors should teach it to students of Japanese. They seek answers to two questions: What are the aspects of reading in Japan as manifested in Japanese society? What L2 (second-language) reading problems are specific to Japanese? In answering the first and related questions, the authors conclude that reading is a socially motivated, purposeful act that is savored and becomes a part of people's lives. Reading instruction in Japanese, therefore, should include teaching students how to work with text as the Japanese do in Japanese society.The second question relates more directly to traditional concerns in L2 reading. The authors begin with a general theory of reading. They then offer a welcome glimpse into the rich and complex perspectives-sometimes conflicting, other times symbiotic-on what reading is and how it is performed in L1 and L2, and, most importantly, on the web of interconnections between the phenomenology of reading and the demands it places on teaching approaches to reading in Japanese.With essays by Charles J. Quinn, Jr., Fumiko Harada, and Chris BrockettForeword by J. Marshall Unger
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Jan 2018)
Beschreibung:1 online resource
ISBN:9780824861377

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