The Attempt of the Kokugo Newsletter "The Story of van Gough" : the Ten Years' Commitment to the Kokugo Newsletter(<Special Issue>Teaching Literature amid the "Affuence")

Abstract

This is about an experiment in teaching Japanese language to senior high school students. I attempted to compose and distribute the text of "Kokugo (Japanese language) Newsletter: the Story of van Gough" among the students, to read it aloud to them; in this, I tried to make them talk extensively, while setting up the story of van Gough as a general theme. I have come to realize that the classroom session is constituted with the teacher's posing questions and the students' responding to them, the process repreated over and again as though they were playing catch with ideas. My experiment is part of the search for coming together of the teacher and students. I maintain that this trial will deepen the relationship between them.