Cultural Literacy And Middle School Japanese Language Teaching

With the development of culturallinguistics,sociallinguisticsand crossculturalcommunication, more and more people are being to show interest to culture of foreignlanguage teaching. The studies about culturalteachingin foreign language teaching havebeen started from 80's in 20th centuries, and became to a "culture boom" in these years. Theinfluence will be received, and an educational syllabus that it is made to use because aneducational part has enacted《Japanese course standard》be substituted in a basic educationalreform from 2000. Submitting cultural attainments exactly becomes the breakthrough point of《Japanese course standard》. This paper makes an effective probe towards the hot issue.Moreover, the textbook is an important composition part in the research of Japaneseeducation, and an important career to which the student learns the culture and knowledge. AJapanese textbook of the new publication has been published based on《Japanese coursestandard》. The composition of the knowledge related to cultural attainments in the textbookhas an important action in the promotion of execution of a cultural education in junior highschool Japanese education and student's cultural attainments.The text researches relations between cultural attainments and a junior high schoolJapanese education for the standard experiment textbook《Japanese》of the compulsoryeducation course, and states details of this problem. Then, the feature of a culturalcomposition in a Japanese textbook of the new publication is brought together, and theproposal to the class is put out through the comparison analysis method.The text chiefly consists of four parts. Cultural attainments in Chapter 1 and a juniorhigh school Japanese education are deciphered. In Chapter 2, cultural contents of《Standard》and《Outline》is analyzed compared. In Chapter 3, cultural contents of old and new juniorschool Japanese textbook is analyzed separately and compared. It introduces a culturaleducation in Chapter 4 and a junior high school Japanese education principle and method, andthe proposal to the class is submitted. The feature of a cultural composition in a new textbookis brought together in the part of the last conclusion.