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This paper presents the findings of interviews with 26 Japanese language teachers who teach Japanese language major students or Japanese school students in China about how they teach causative expressions in Japanese language. The following are the main points of the findings. 1) Teachers focus their guidance on the sentence patterns in which causative expressions are used and the meanings that causative expressions express in sentences. 2) The guidance about how to use causative expressions in communication is inadequate, and one of the reasons of the inadequacy in guidance is attributable to the lack of teachers' consciousness.
