A Review of Japanese Language Textbook Series Manabō Nihongo! Published by SenmonKyouiku

Azarparand, Sohrab

doi:10.30465/crtls.2019.4374

A Review of Japanese Language Textbook Series Manabō Nihongo! Published by SenmonKyouiku

Document Type : Research

Author

Sohrab Azarparand

Assistant Professor of Department of Japanese Language and Literature Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Tehran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2019.4374

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to introduce and review Japanese language textbook series Manabō Nihongo published by Senmon Kyouik. This textbook series at the present time, Due to characteristics such as coordinating the content of the series with the five levels of the Japanese international JLPT test, covering the ability of the Japanese language from elementary to advanced levels, and preparing various assistant books in order to improve the four skills of language, listening, speaking, reading and writing has been used as a textbook series in many universities and language teaching centers around the world in recent years. Since the adoption of the new curriculum for Japanese language and literature by the ministry of science, research and technology's ministry of higher education planning in 2015, in the department of Japanese language and literature of university of Tehran, this textbook series has been replaced Minna no Nihongo and gradually has been used. Due to the position of this textbook series in teaching Japanese in the world and Iran, the present paper tries to highlight its advantages and disadvantages.

Keywords

Advanced Level

Elementary Level

Textbook Series

Communicative Approach

Audio-Lingual Method

Formulaic Utterances

Subjects

Foreign Languages

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