Developing teaching materials for promotion of intercultural understanding using Japanese story-manga

这个项目是1999-2001年项目（代码编号11878039）的继承者，旨在寻找一种有效的方法来使用日本故事漫画作品，以提高日语学习者和母语人士的跨文化意识。我们努力的主要成果汇集在一份218页的报告中。报告由两部分组成。第一部分包括三位研究者在2002-2005年间发表的12篇文章中的8篇，以及使用开发的教材进行课程设计的讲座简历。第二部分包括两个系列教材。文章讨论了日语会话的特点、日语文体特征的作用、学习者对会话的理解以及周边国家漫画的质量和状况。主要的理论贡献有：1)揭示了文体特征在实际语篇中促进话语意义产生的机制；2)我们发现，即使是高级学习者也可能因为对语言的文体特征和不同的文化价值观认识不足而无法理解话语的意义。教材的题目是“通过漫画第3号看日本人和日本人：职业女性”“通过漫画第4号看日本人和日本人：你身边的英雄”。所有使用的作品都真实地反映了日本的当代社会。教材可以为学习者提供关于人们如何说话和行为以及为什么这样做的实质性说明。他们还帮助以英语为母语的人加深对自己文化的认识

This project is the successor to the 1999-2001 project (code number 11878039) and is an endeavor to find an effective way of using the works of Japanese story-MANGA in order to enhance intercultural awareness among learners and native speakers of the Japanese language. The major products of our efforts are collected into a report of 218 pages.The report consists of two parts. The first part includes eight out of twelve articles published by the three investigators during 2002-2005 as well as a resume of a lecture on the course design for using the developed teaching materials. The second part includes two series of teaching materials.The articles discussed the characteristics of Japanese conversations, the functions of Japanese stylistic features, the learner's interpretation of conversations, and the quality and state of Manga in neighboring countries. The major theoretical contributions are : 1)we have revealed the mechanism in which the stylistic features contribute to the production of utterance meaning in an actual discourse ; 2)we have revealed that even an advanced learner can fail to understand utterance meaning because of his inadequate knowledge about stylistic features and different cultural values.The teaching materials are titled "Looking at Japanese and Japan through Manga No.3 : Working Women" "Looking at Japanese and Japan through Manga No.4 : Heroes next to you". All the used works realistically reflect the contemporary society of Japan. The teaching materials can offer the learner substantial elucidation of how people talk and behave and why. They also help the native speakers deepen their awareness about their own culture