2024 Volume 47 Issue 1 Pages 17-27
In the Japanese version of the Guidelines on Study for Junior High Schools (announced in 2017), the Japanese language section of the commentary states that “the way of seeing and thinking with words” are important in “increasing students’ awareness of words by having them grasp and question the relationship between objects and words and between words, focusing on the meaning, function, and usage of words in their studies.” In this study, I performed a qualitative analysis of the linguistic activities of students using haiku written by haiku poets and creative haiku written by students as teaching materials to clarify specific learning activities in which “the way of seeing and thinking with words” plays a part. The analysis also revealed that language activities that transform learners’ own appreciation of haiku works by broadening and deepening their reading are an important element for developing “the way of seeing and thinking with words,” and that collaborative haiku appreciation is effective in eliciting this element. These results suggest that the type of haiku used as teaching materials and the form of classes are also important factors in realizing haiku classes in which “the way of seeing and thinking with words” plays a part.
