A Review of “Japanese through Newspaper Articles”

The present article introduces and evaluates the textbook “Japanese through Newspaper Articles” written by Osamu and Nobuko Mizutani which is commonly taught in “Journalistic Japanese” classes both in and outside Japan. This article reviews the book from two different points of view: first, the ling...

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Main Author: Ayat Hosseini
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Published: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS) 2018-11-01
Series:پژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی
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Online Access:https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_3459_18793135f8788aca9679c8fa6608d2cb.pdf
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spelling doaj-art-52103d461bb84e938ee7a49ed304e7652025-01-13T05:30:28ZfasInstitute for Humanities and Cultural Studies (IHCS)پژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی2383-16502018-11-0118825503459A Review of “Japanese through Newspaper Articles”Ayat Hosseini0Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of TehranThe present article introduces and evaluates the textbook “Japanese through Newspaper Articles” written by Osamu and Nobuko Mizutani which is commonly taught in “Journalistic Japanese” classes both in and outside Japan. This article reviews the book from two different points of view: first, the linguistic and pedagogical functions of the book are evaluated, and its achievements as a language textbook are criticized. Second, the cultural aspects of the book are evaluated and the image it tries to portray from Japanese society is analyzed. In order to achieve these goals, 60 real journal articles are randomly selected from Japanese press and their content is compared to that of the news articles in the book by using polarity tags.https://criticalstudy.ihcs.ac.ir/article_3459_18793135f8788aca9679c8fa6608d2cb.pdfjapanese languagelanguage teachingjournalistic japanesenewspaperpolarity tags
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پژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی
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