Curriculum Development for Exercising the Power of Argumentative Discourse in the Teachers Training of Japanese

这个项目在一个两年的计划（2003-2004）中，努力改造在西方世界持续了超过15个世纪的古代练习，称为pro体操（初级练习），使其可用于当今高等教育的写作教学。目的是为想要成为日语教师的学生和在职日语教师培训课程的教师提供一套课程和系统的教材，以提高他们的议论文能力。我们以作文教材的形式发表了这个项目的成果。修辞学传统的写作（明治东洋）。这本教科书的特点如下目标受众为学生（想要成为日语教师的人）和在职日语教师。2我们着重于论述，从古代的14道操中提炼出9道（寓言、故事、赞美、谚语、反驳、肯定、赞美、谩骂、比较）。，并根据我们的目的对它们进行了改造在理论章节中，我们增加了一些修辞学和其他相关学科的知识，以便学生更好地理解练习题是根据上述学生的水平和兴趣，参照古代体操的内容，重新设计的在实践章节中，我们展示了实际的教学过程和辅助材料，以帮助学生详细阐述他们的论文。此外，我们在本教材中至少发表了两篇学生论文样本和我们对每个主题的评论。

This project endeavors, on a two-year plan(2003-2004), to remake ancient sets of exercises called progymnasmata (preliminary exercises) which persisted for more than fifteen centuries in the Western world, to be available for teaching composition in present-day higher education, for the purpose of presenting a curriculum and systematic teaching materials to increase the power of argumentative discourse of students who want to be teachers of Japanese and in-service teachers of Japanese in teachers training course. We published the result of this project in the form of a composition textbook tided. Composition in the Rhetorical Tradition(Meiji Tosyo). The special features of this textbook are as follows.1 The target audiences are students (who want to be teachers of Japanese) and in-service teachers of Japanese.2 Emphasizing heavily on argumentative discourse, We extracted nine exercises (fable, tale, chreia, proverbs, refutation, confirmation, praise, invective, comparison) from fourteen exercises of ancient progymnasmata., and reconstructed them according to our purpose.3 In theoretical chapters, we added some knowledge of rhetoric and other related disciplines to those explained in progymnasmata textbooks for better understanding of students.4 The subjects of exercises were newly designed according to the level and interest of above-mentioned students, referring to those of ancient progymnasmata.5 In practical chapters, we showed actual procedure of our instruction and auxiliary materials to help students elaborate their essays. Moreover, we published at least two sample student essays and our comments upon those for each subject in this textbook.