Improving junior high school students' logical thinking and communication skills based on classroom practice using improved Japanese school grammar

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K04829
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Education on school subjects and activities
• Research Institution: Mukogawa Women's University (2018-2022); Mukogawa Women's University Junior College Division (2017)
• Principal Investigator: SATO Katsuyuki 武庫川女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (80215772)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 村山 太郎 武庫川女子大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20743850)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 学校国文法 / 橋本文法 / 論理的思考力 / 言語学 / 機能言語学 / 選択体系機能言語学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Japanese school grammar is based on so-called Hashimoto Grammar, which has been criticized even by Japanese grammarians. We proposed 'Improved Japanese school grammar', which can be utilized not only for logical analysis of Japanese sentence structure but also for the interpretation of various types of Japanese text.
Sato proposed the basic idea of the improvement of the school grammar from the viewpoint of functional linguistics (especially Systemic Functional Linguistics), and Murayama and his collaborators cooperated in compiling text data to be used in class practice. This resulted in the workbook, 'Kotoba no Manabi 1 and 2'.

Free Research Field

機能言語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

最近の日本語学・言語学の発展にもかかわらず、過去数十年にわたり変化のない学校国文法を否定することなく改善することによって、実践的に有効と見なされてこなかったこの文法を、より合理的な文の分析の道具として、さらには文章解釈の一つの手立てとして利用できるような方策を提案できたと考えられることである。