Reconsidering Japanese Language Textbooks from the Viewpoint of Gender: Textbook Development that Reflects the Social Changes
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- MIZUMOTO TERUMI
- Principal Investigator
- 北九州市立大学
About this project
- Japan Grant Number
- JP23520642
- Funding Program
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
- Funding organization
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Project/Area Number
- 23520642
- Research Category
- Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
- Allocation Type
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- Multi-year Fund
- Review Section / Research Field
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- Humanities and Social Sciences > Humanities > Linguistics > Japanese language education
- Research Institution
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- The University of Kitakyushu
- Project Period (FY)
- 2011-04-28 〜 2015-03-31
- Project Status
- Completed
- Budget Amount*help
- 5,070,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 3,900,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 1,170,000 Yen)
Research Abstract
In this research I performed analyses of the statistical survey results concerning the average use ratio of female sentence-final particles (FSFP) in the casual conversations by female standard Japanese speakers of the four generations from 20s to 50s, and confirmed that young women no longer used them, except for jokes. However, the survey results from the comparative studies of the conversations by young women in Japanese textbooks showed that the textbooks excessively used FSFP. Another comparative analysis revealed that the images of Japanese women at home and workplaces, women’s occupations, and Japanese family forms in the textbooks did not portray the current Japanese society but depicted the conventional stereotypes of 30 years ago obsessed by gender ideology. Conducting international questionnaire surveys involved in Japanese language education, I analyzed the teachers' consciousness of gendered images in the textbooks, and suggested some ideas for gender-equal textbooks.