抄録
Anime and manga, popular aspects of Japanese subculture, serve as strong motivators of learning Japanese. In the intermediate language class, various lessons incorporating these two areas were designed for the students. The purpose of these lessons was to develop each student's speaking ability by taking advantage of their interests and using this as a theme for the final objective which were the individual presentations. Activities included: discussions with native Japanese speakers, linguistic learning of colloquial expressions and onomatopoeia through interpretation of manga, etc. According to the questionnaire, these activities were deemed popular and prompted interest in the students on learning Japanese.
