Current Status and Issues honorific study : focusing on elementary school Japanese language department

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the present conditions and problems in honorific instruction. Research until now has mostly been conducted in the areas of Japanese language pedagogy and sociolinguistics but not in the area of liberal arts language education. Here I shall examine 1) the report, 2) the outline, and 3) the teaching material. The present condition can be said to be one of honorific instruction through communicative proficiency. If we consider how honorific language instruction in real life situations is conducted, then we can see that this learning method is effective, and therefore it can be concluded that we need to instruct from real life situations.