Arabic Education and its Resources in Japan

本项目的主要活动分为研究会、资料收集、数据库和教育资源开发三个方面，在研究会上，从地域研究的角度研究阿拉伯语的性质，从战略的角度考察日本高等教育中阿拉伯语教学的现状。根据这些研究的结果，我们制定了一项发展阿拉伯教育及其与地区研究有关的实用资源的战略计划，我们收集了阿拉伯和西方国家出版的各种阿拉伯材料，如教科书、教材、词典、百科全书和印刷媒体材料，我们将其用于开发我们的资源。我们制作了一个流通中的阿拉伯文期刊的光盘数据库、一本阿拉伯文动词模式综合书、一本急需的高级阿拉伯文语法书和一本阿拉伯文语法手册。我们还对日语中的阿拉伯语语法术语进行了比较研究。为了开发一个阿拉伯语语料库，我们邀请了一位本地知识分子，他写了一本散文集。作为高级学习者的教材，我们根据萨德尔的著作，将其阿拉伯原文翻译成日语，并准备了一些专门的技术术语（阿拉伯语到日语），如伊斯兰法律和伊斯兰金融。进行了世界统计，并编制了一份日语-阿拉伯语时间轴，作为一种新的语言材料，该项目旨在以与地区研究相结合的方式开展阿拉伯语教育。这些成果已在京都大学亚非地区研究研究生院实施。上述一系列材料应作为进一步开发日本高等教育阿拉伯语教学教育资源的基础。

Major activities of this project were conducted in the three fields, namely, research meetings, material collection and development of data bases and educational resources.In the research meetings, we have studies the nature of the Arabic language from area studies perspectives, and examined the current conditions of Arabic teaching in Japanese higher education from a strategic point of view. Upon the findings of these studies, we made a strategic plan for developing Arabic education and its practical resources in relation to area studies.We have collected a wide range of Arabic materials, published in both Arab and Western countries, such as textbooks, teaching materials, dictionaries, encyclopedias and print media materials, which we used for developing our resources.Through date base building and resource development, we have produced a CD-ROM data base of Arabic periodicals in circulation, a comprehensive book of Arabic Verb patterns, an advanced Arabic grammar, that was seriously needed, and a manual of Arabic grammar. We have also made a comparative study of Arabic grammatical terms in Japanese. In order to develop an Arabic corpus, we invited a native intellectual who produced a book of essays. As a material for advanced learners, we have produced a Japanese translation with its Arabic original, taken from al-Sadr's writings.We have prepared several lists of specialized technical terms (Arabic to Japanese) such as Islamic law and Islamic finance. World counting was conducted and a Japanese-Arabic timeline as a new form of language materials are also prepared.This project aimed to produce an Arabic education in a manner integrated with area studies. The achievements have been implemented in Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University. A series of above mentioned materials should serve as a basis for further development of educational resources for Arabic teaching in higher education in Japan.