The Inclusion of Cultural Elements in College Japanese Teaching

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10.2991/icsshe-16.2016.158How to use a DOI?

Keywords

language, culture, Japanese teaching, social culture, guiding

Abstract

Language learning is not an isolated progress, since every language is closely associated with its social culture and background. Therefore, in Japanese teaching, we not only need to explain Japanese grammar, train the students to use it, but also need to introduce Japanese social culture and background knowledge. Due to its special ethnic character, its historical complications and its particular geographical environment, Japan has evolved its unique culture. So the introduction of Japanese culture knowledge is very important in Japanese teaching course. This paper aims to confirm the feasibility of including cultural elements in college Japanese teaching and explore corresponding strategies to include cultural knowledge in college Japanese teaching. On the basis of discussing the relationship between culture and language, the paper makes an in-depth analysis of cultural inclusion in Japanese teaching through summarizing the distribution of cultural information in Japanese textbooks. At last, three strategies are proposed respectively to infiltrate Japanese social and cultural knowledge to Japanese teaching. This paper bases the research on practice, namely the distribution of cultural information in college Japanese textbooks, which is of practical significance.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TI  - The Inclusion of Cultural Elements in College Japanese Teaching
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 2nd International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education
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