本研究では、幼児期の運動遊びと小学校段階の体育科を円滑に接続するため、幼児を対象に絵本を活用した運動遊びの指導を展開し、活動中の活動記録分析、指導分析、保護者への質問紙調査から第１回目と第２回目の実践を比較検証した。期間記録分析の比較では、第1回目の実践における絵本の読み聞かせと運動遊びの割合が同程度（全体の約30％）であった。また、『小学校学習指導要領』への接続を前提とした第2回目の実践では、絵本の読み聞かせの割合が全体の約15％、運動遊びの割合が全体の約45％強であった。これらの割合は、先行事例がない絵本の読み聞かせと運動遊びを主活動とした実践にとって好個な参考値であった。さらに、相互作用行動分析の比較においては、具体的FB、一般的FB、発問のいずれの発問回数も第2回目においての増加が見られた。また、保護者への質問紙調査結果からは、すべての参加幼児において表情尺度の笑顔度は40％を下回ることはなく、笑顔度100％との回答も得られた。以上のことから、参加幼児は絵本を用いた運動遊びの実践を好意的に捉えており、楽しさを味わいながら参加していたと考えられる。

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This is a guide to the full set of 16-level APRICOT's Springboard Readers, which is advertised in Japan as "picture books read among Australia elementary school children in a literacy program." The three characteristics of this series (128 little books) are as follows: 1) Although there are many levels, all books are of the same make: 16-page pamphlets with either full-color illustrations for fictional stories, or color photos for nonfiction. 2) These books are for children of all races, including the handicapped like people using wheelchairs or hearing aids: Reflecting the Australian society of diverse cultures, some of the illustrations and photographs show not only white people and Aboriginals but also many people of oriental origins. 3) As Australian graded readers, many books deal with Australian things, especially animals native to the large country: Interestingly, the protagonists of some animal stories are kangaroos, koalas, wombats, emus, platypuses and crocodiles, all of which are also dealt in nonfictional counterparts. Compared with other ordinary graded readers, these Australian stories written for the series might be more humorous but rather monotonous with no unexpected endings. However, the Springboard readers can be recommended to those who are interested in Australia and want to go there someday.

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This paper is a guide to Foundations Reading Library, the 1-7 level graded readers series of 42 full-color illustrated books, whose characters are mainly fictional “Bayview High School” students of diverse origins including Japanese and Koreans in the United States. This series is quite unique since many of introductory graded readers generally tend to be children’s books, or fairy tales written for children. Of course, it cannot be denied both Grimm’s and Andersen’s masterpieces are still worth reading for young adults, and even the graded readers for English-speaking children like Oxford Reading Tree and Info Trails are also readable and informative for high school students learning English as a foreign language. In reality, however, ordinary, Japanese high school students, especially male students, avoid those books probably because they look too childish for them to choose. Although there are stories retold or newly written for such students, they do not seem interesting enough to attract their attention. As for Foundations Reading Library, the main characters of the series are ordinary, American high school students, whom the Japanese counterparts can easily sympathize with. American high school life always looks so attractive to them, for example, part-time jobs, skateboards, rock concerts, rock bands, basketball, sports meets, bike races, summer camps, and dances. Furthermore, this series includes some extraordinary adventures such as fights against gangsters and robbers. Far from boring, Foundations Reading Library provides ideal textbooks to those who want to enjoy learning English from the basics by themselves.

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This is a summary guide to 51 books of Richmond Robin Readers, which seem to be targeted at teenage learners of English, judging from the ages of the protagonists: 12 or 13 to 19 years old in accordance with the levels from 1 (300 headwords) to 6 (1800 headwords). The characteristics of this series are as follows: 1) A fifth of the stories are set in Australia whose indigenous animals such as crocodiles and kangaroos are effectively used in Jane Bowring's Cousins and Crocodiles and James Roy's Broken Wing. 2) Half of the books are about the teen protagonists fighting against adult criminals, mainly robbers. Although some of them are quite humorous like Denise Kirby's Black Night, others are unexpectedly serious like Pauline O'Carolan's Ride for Your Life and Deadly Holiday. A unique writer, Ms. O'Carolan prefers describing evil doings of abnormal people like an arsonist, a stalker and even a serial killer. 3) Many of the stories are based on the protagonists' newly found leisure activities such as skiing, scuba diving, horse riding, orienteering, ballooning, yachting, and rafting, out of which powerful stories like Ms. Kirby's Hot Air and Sue Murray's Wild Water were born. Since those recreational experiences are not so hard to be accessible to teenagers, they will probably enjoy reading such rather approachable adventures.
Other recommended books you cannot miss in this series are Sue Murray's CHOIR Boy (a good-looking boy robot causes a lot of trouble at school), Sam Bowring's In Sarah's Dreams (a girl fights back the bully in her dreams), Philip Voysey's The Rainbow Girl (an outcast, hunchback girl kills a monster for her village), and Denise Kirby's What Happened at Seacliffe (through the visit to her rich cousins in England, an Australian female student gets to know that her ancestor was robbed of his inheritance and forcibly sent to the faraway land as a criminal most probably by his own brother).

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ラグビー・リーグは, 19世紀末期に英国で誕生した。このスポーツは, ラグビーという近代スポーツに対する階級間の考え方の違いや, このスポーツを楽しむ人々を取り巻く環境の違いから, アマチュアイズムを基本理念とするエリート階級のラグビー・ユニオンから分離したものであった。
20世紀初頭にオーストラリアに伝えられてこのスポーツは, 労働者の大衆文化として発展を遂げる。しかし, 支持者の労働者階級の変化やオーストラリア社会全体の変化とともに, 特に第二次世界大戦後は, 国民的・国際的スポーツへと次第にその姿を変えて行く。さらにマスメディアとの関係強化などにより, スペクタル化が促進される。80年代から90年代にかけては, この傾向に一層の拍車がかかった。
20世紀オーストラリアのラグビー・リーグの歴史は, 労働者の大衆文化からマスメディアによる総合娯楽産業への変遷の軌跡でもある。と同時に, スポーツをコントロールしてきた英国的なエートスが, アメリカ的なものへと変化して行く過程であった。この傾向は, ここに見られるケースに限らず, 程度の差はあるにせよ, 20世紀のスポーツ・シーンで共通に見られる現象であると言えるのではないだろうか。

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