Acts of Reading : Exploring Connections in Pedagogy of Japanese / Hiroshi Nara, Mari Noda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nara, Hiroshi, author.

Noda, Mari, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading.

Japanese language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2002]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Students who have completed a year of German read Brecht in their second year, those of Spanish read Cervantes. Teachers of first and second-year Japanese can often find nothing comparable. "Why aren't your students reading literature?" they are asked. "Why not Soseki? Or Murakami?" What are instructors of Japanese doing wrong?Nothing, according to the authors of this volume. Rather, they argue, such questions exemplify the gross misunderstandings and unreasonable expectations of teaching reading in Japanese. In Acts of Reading, the authors set out to explore what reading is for Japanese as a language, and how instructors should teach it to students of Japanese. They seek answers to two questions: What are the aspects of reading in Japan as manifested in Japanese society? What L2 (second-language) reading problems are specific to Japanese? In answering the first and related questions, the authors conclude that reading is a socially motivated, purposeful act that is savored and becomes a part of people's lives. Reading instruction in Japanese, therefore, should include teaching students how to work with text as the Japanese do in Japanese society.The second question relates more directly to traditional concerns in L2 reading. The authors begin with a general theory of reading. They then offer a welcome glimpse into the rich and complex perspectives-sometimes conflicting, other times symbiotic-on what reading is and how it is performed in L1 and L2, and, most importantly, on the web of interconnections between the phenomenology of reading and the demands it places on teaching approaches to reading in Japanese.With essays by Charles J. Quinn, Jr., Fumiko Harada, and Chris BrockettForeword by J. Marshall Unger

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1: Reading as a Cultural Act

Chapter 1. Learning to Read as a Native Speaker / Noda, Mari

Chapter 2 . Reading as a Social Activity / Noda, Mari

Chapter 3. Taking It from the Top: The Growth and Care of Genres / Quinn, Jr.

Part 2: Theoretical Orientation

Chapter 4. The Foreign Language Learner / Nara, Hiroshi

Chapter 5. Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Reading / Harada, Fumiko K.

Chapter 6. The View from Cognitive Neuroscience / Brockett, Chris

Part 3: Implementation

Chapter 7. Designing a Reading Program / Nara, Hiroshi

Chapter 8. Implementation of Reading in the Classroom / Nara, Hiroshi

Chapter 9. Evaluation in Reading / Noda, Mari

Chapter 10. Selection and Development of Learning Materials / Noda, Mari

Chapter 11. Adopting High Technology in Developing Teaching Materials / Nara, Hiroshi

Notes

References

Contributors

Indexes

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-311) and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824861377

082486137X

OCLC:

810039575