日本語の副詞教育に関する研究の概観と課題

Abstract

In this article, I aim to clarify the current state of studies on the teaching of Japanese adverbs and its issues. For this purpose, I first present an overview of previous studies on Japanese adverbs, then sum up the results and prospects of research on Japanese adverbs in the context of Japanese language education, and finally propose a teaching method which can be made use of for acquisition studies on Japanese adverbs and actual practices of Japanese language education. Building on studies on adverbs in Korea, I characterise previous studies on adverbs from the perspective of Japanese language education, by dividing them into those based on instructions for Japanese language education and those based on learners’ acquisition data and errour analyses. There are three challenges for acquisition studies on Japanese adverbs. Firstly, Japanese language education in Korea has been mostly based on the meaning and usage patterns of adverbs, and we must broaden research in order to cater for learners’ needs and learning stages. Secondly, we must make most of grammatical research on adverbs and pursue Japanese-Korean contrastive analyses. Finally, we need to present a method for effectively teaching adverbs that can be implemented in actual classes.