Smith College
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Questioning the traditional reading instruction that overly emphasizes literal comprehension of texts, one of the authors conducted action research and revised her advanced-level Japanese reading course at a university by incorporating... more
This paper presents one example of moments of tension from a yearlong ethnographic study conducted in a college intermediate Japanese-as-a-foreign-language classroom (Kumagai, 2004). I define moments of tension as those moments when... more
Heritage language speakeris a relatively new term to denote minority language speakers who grew up in a household where the language was used or those who have a family, ancestral, or racial connection to the minority language. In... more
- by Yuri Kumagai
多様なコミュニケーションツールが普及し,地域・国境を超えた複数の教室を繋ぐ「テレコラボレーション」が言語学習に取り入れられるようになった(O’Dowd,2011)。それらの実践の多くは「真正な」言語活動の場の提供を目的とし,「繋がり」を持つことの意義が重視されがちである。しかし,単に繋がりを持つだけでは「意味のある対話」を実現することは難しい(Ware,2005)。本稿では,そのような批判を鑑み,米国の私立大学日本 語3... more
- by Yuri Kumagai