Cross-cultural Study On Value Orientation Of National Language Curriculum In Chinese And Japanese Primary Schools

National language curriculum plays an important role in imparting basic knowledge to students,cultivating their ability and fostering their skills of thinking and communication. Furthermore,its implied value orientation greatly affects the construction of students'spiritual world. This research originates from the cross-culture angel, taking China and Japan primary school national language curriculum as the object, value orientation as the subject. Based on expositing the standards of China and Japan primary school national language curriculum and analyzing the investigations of the reading feedbacks and the students'tendency in subject composition,this paper points out the similarities and differences of China and Japan primary school national language curriculum, and thus explains its cultural reasons. The dissertation is composed of six body parts in addition to an introduction and a conclusion.Introduction:Logic point of view and significance of the study.This part mostly states the incentives and national and international background of the study. The object ,subject,methods,purpose,and the significance of the study are also explained in this part. Furthermore,this part discusses the validity and rationality of the study,outlining the basic frame and the main body structure.Chapter One:Cultural explanation of value orientation of curriculum.This part has a theoretical study of culture, value, curriculum and value orientation of curriculum. An in-depth study is especially done on the relation of culture and curriculum as well as the relation of value and value orientation of curriculum. Therefore, a solid theoretical foundation of this paper is laid in this chapter.Chapter Two: Cultural reflection on historical changes of the value orientation of primary education curriculum in china. This chapter analyses the characteristics of the value orientation of curriculum from the ancient time to 21st century in China, and thus have a cultural reflection on historical changes of the value orientation of primary education curriculum in china. This part shows that the study has important historical and realistic significance.Chapter There:The comparative study of the value orientation of China and Japan primary school language curriculum standards.This chapter makes a comparison of the historical evolvement of China and Japan primary school language curriculum standards,and their curriculum standards structure,their curriculum objectives,"spoken language intercommunicate","reading comprehend","writing"etc. This chapter focuses on the value orientation of China and Japan primary school national language curriculum from the angle of curriculum documents.Chapter Four:The analysis of types and frequency of the value orientation of China and Japan primary school language textbooks.This chapter analyzes the types and frequency of the value orientation of primary school national language textbooks issued by People's Education Press of China and Mitsumura Press of Japan, and then explain the reasons of their similarities and differences from the cultural point of view.Chapter Five:The survey on reading feedbacks of China and Japan primary school students.This chapter takes《Peanut》(a text for Grade Five in Chinese primary schools published by People's Education Press of China) and《Little Fox Buy Gloves》(a text for Grade Three in Japanese primary schools published by Tokyo Book Press) as examples,and investigates the reading feedback of primary students from grade four and grade five in China and Japan. Furthermore,Cross-culture analysis of their similarities and differences is also done in this chapter.Chapter Six:The analysis of testing on compositions written by Chinese and Japanese primary school students.This chapter takes"Return the country after twenty years"—a subject in textbooks for Chinese primary school students of grade five issued by Education Press of China and"Matter that affect me"—a subject in textbooks for Japanese primary school students of grade six issued by Tokyo Book Press of Japan as the testing subjects. Both Chinese and Japanese students of grade four and grade five have taken the test. This paper analyses and discusses the testing results in a multidimensional way.Conclusion:Basic conclusions and subsequent research expectationBasic conclusion are as follows : 1. The value orientation of curriculum has"human-oriented"and"human-targeted";2. Modernity is a long-lasting goal pursued by value orientation of primary school Chinese language curriculum in a century;3. National language curriculum and national culture are mutually constructed 4. The value orientation of national language curriculum has an important effect to construction of the individuals'(or nations') spiritual world;5. The similarities and differences of value orientation of China and Japan primary school national language curriculum lay a solid foundation on cross-culture communion between China and Japan;6. The cross-culture research aims at enhancing curriculum culture speaking rights.Based on research,there are still some subsequent research fields that are worth working on.:1. Cross-culture study of classroom teaching in China and Japan;2. The survey on Chinese and Japanese teachers'value orientation in explaining national language curriculum texts;3. The vertically comparative study on value orientation of Chinese and Japanese national language textbooks. Subsequent research will be done on the above topics, and it involves a lot of hard work in the future。...