TEACHING THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE FROM A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
TEACHING THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE FROM A CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE

Summary/Abstract: The present study analyses the way in which Japanese is taught to foreigners in certain contexts, explaining its peculiarities in their historical context, pointing out the connection between the language and its culture. Teaching the language through its culture occurs in many contexts, as diverse as teaching Japanese as a heritage language, or teaching it abroad in other cultures like China, Korea, etc., or even as a practice of cultural exchanges for native Japanese studying abroad. We will focus on the way in which the language was taught at Osaka International University’s School of Japanese Studies for Foreign Students, under the guidance of Professor Emeritus Yoshikazu Matsui, whose two seminal books written in this context we will analyse in more detail.

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