指導要領の変遷から見る学校英語教育の目的論の展開 : 豊かな言語感覚の育成に焦点を当てて

抄録

Recently in English language education in Japan, there is an argument for cooperation with Japanese language education (Language Arts). For such an argument, it is necessary to rethink the objectives of school English education. Reviewing a series of courses of study and relevant remarks, the author proposes that enriching language awareness should be a major objective of school language English education. The cogency and the necessity are discussed in this study referring to some remarks on the study of Language Awareness (LA). An overview of such studies reveals that English language education in Japan should be treated in a bigger frame called language education for the purpose of encouraging students' awareness of how language works and how communications are made. Yet, developing tasks, and materials and also establishing evaluations will be necessary in the future.