Abstract
In an oral survey, Japanese home economics teachers at senior high schools said that the current home economics
textbook was awkward to use and difficult for students. Three kinds of discourse analysis revealed the problems with
this textbook: 1) the Table of Contents contained many duplications and inconsistencies; the writers of the textbook
seemed to conflict with each other and had little interest in the students. 2) Many descriptions in the textbook were
ambiguous; the text was unappealing and did not offer any substantial interrogation of the topic, so the textbook did not
attract the interest of students or encourage them to study the subject. 3) From a historical point of view, there was no
unified policy in the home economics textbook. Revision of the textbook and course of study are proposed.
