Application of the of Japanese pedagogy for endangered language education

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25580088
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: Hanazono Satoru 東京外国語大学, 大学院国際日本学研究院, 准教授 (40334453)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 沖縄語 / 沖縄中南部方言 / 琉球語 / 日本語教育 / 危機言語教育

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Although the Okinawan language has great accumulation of researches since the Meiji period, adequate textbooks to learn the vocabulary and sentence patterns of this language, based on the method of foreign language education does not yet exist . In this study, I selected a sentence pattern type in elementary Okinawan education, using the methodology of the Japanese pedagogy . Beginning from the noun sentence, I figured out sequence of sentence patterns　from easy to learn into something complex . But since some Okinawan's grammatical categories are different from those of Japanese, for example, making topic form of nouns, verb conjugation or meanings of the demonstrative, I changed the order of showing the grammatical categories, and figured out explanations of meaning in some grammatical items.

Free Research Field

日本語学