Arabic Education and its Resources in Japan

该项目的主要活动在三个领域进行，即研究会议、资料收集和开发数据库和教育资源。在研究会议上，我们从区域研究的角度研究了阿拉伯语的本质，并从战略的角度审视了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，我们制定了发展阿拉伯语教育及其与区域研究相关的实践资源的战略计划。我们收集了在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，用于开发我们的资源。通过建立数据库和开发资源，我们制作了流通中的阿拉伯语期刊的光盘数据库、阿拉伯语动词句型的综合书籍、迫切需要的高级阿拉伯语语法和阿拉伯语语法手册。我们还对日语中的阿拉伯语法术语进行了比较研究。为了建立一个阿拉伯语料库，我们邀请了一位当地的知识分子，他制作了一本散文集。作为高级学习者的材料，我们制作了一份日文翻译，其中有阿拉伯文原文，取自萨德尔的著作。我们准备了一些专门的技术术语清单（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，并制作了日本-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。研究成果已在京都大学亚非地区研究研究生院实施。上述一系列材料可作为进一步开发日本高等教育阿拉伯语教学资源的基础。

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.