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

本文的三篇文章讨论了跨文化理解的一些方面和问题，对跨文化理解教材的编写和课程的设计都充满了建议。第一作者渡边Kanji Watanabe分三章从理论和材料分析两方面论述了英语教材写作中存在的问题：第一章论述了跨文化交际中误读的原因，第二章论述了提高跨文化交际技巧的理论，第三章论述了英语教材写作中的材料分析问题。综上所述，为了提高日本英语学生的跨文化交际能力，本文在对日本人和美国人的交际模式进行研究的基础上，提出了两种批评理论。(78页)第二作者Kazuyuki hasisako从1988年开始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Nobuya Higuchi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。他阐述了课程的多元文化视角，为日本的跨文化理解教育提供了有益的建议。(将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.)