A Study of the Teaching Materials and the Curricula on Intercultural Understanding

本文中的三篇论文讨论了跨文化理解的一些方面和问题，对开发跨文化理解的教材和设计跨文化理解的课程提出了建议。第一章从理论和材料分析的角度论述了跨文化交际中存在的问题：第一章讨论了跨文化交际中误交际的原因，第二章论述了提高跨文化交际技能的理论，最后论述了英语教材编写中的材料分析问题。最后，为了提高日本英语学习者的跨文化交际能力，本文在对日美两国人交际模式研究的基础上，提出了两种批评理论。(78页)第二作者桥崎和幸自1988年以来对日本大学生如何理解自己的文化多样性进行了广泛的调查。他试图对大量的数据进行分析，掌握实际情况，讨论问题。(32页)最后一位作者东口信也试图通过关注澳大利亚联邦的多元文化教育来澄清当前的跨文化理解问题。他对课程的多元文化观进行了阐述，这将为日本的跨文化理解教育提供有益的建议。(LL P.)

Three papers in here discuss some aspects and problems of intercultural understanding, which would be full of suggestions to develop teaching materials and design curricula of it. The first author, Kanji Watanabe argues the problems of it in terms of theories and materials analysis in three chapters : the first chapter discusses the cause of miscommunication in intercultural communication, the second does the theories for improving intercultural communication skills, and the last does the problems of materials analysis of the composition of English textbooks. In conclusion, for the aim of the improvement of Japanese EFL students'skills for intercultural communication, two critical theories are proposed on the basis of the findings of the study concerning communication patterns of Japanese and American people. (78 P.)The second author, Kazuyuki Hashisako has made a wide survey of how Japanese college students understand their own cultural diversities since 1988. He tries to make an analysis of the large amount of data, to grasp the actual conditions, and to discuss the problems. (32 P.)The last author, Nobuya Higuchi attempts to clarify the current issues of intercultral understanding by focusing on the multicultural education in the Commonwealth of Australia. He states the multicultural perspectives to curriculum, which would provide us with useful suggestions to the education of intercultural understanding in japan. (ll P.)