Abstract
This study conducts an investigation into what examples students taking Japanese teacher training course think they should give and how they think they should explain in the case that they are to explain to intermediate learners of Japanese the differences in meaning between synonyms "tanoshii" and "yukai," in order to clarify its characteristics. It also presents differences between typical examples of these words they think of and examples frequently used according to "The Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese." In addition, the study discusses what examples should be given and how the differences in meaning should be explained in order to facilitate learners to understand those differences when they are to be given an explanation about these synonyms.
