Japanese Popular Culture in English: Discussions and Critical Thinking

Author Robert Sheridan
Kathryn M. Tanaka
Jeanette M. Kobayashi
Category Reading
Communication
TOEIC Level 400~500
500~600
Release Date 2024/01/10
ISBN 9784523179641
Book Size・Number of Pages A4変・88 pages
Price 2,530 yen (incl. tax)
Number of Units 12
Materials Downloadable Audio Files
Teacher’s Materials ●Teacher's Manual with Japanese translation  ●Teacher's Audio CD ●Teacher's CD-ROM【Teacher's Manual Data(PDF)/Review Quiz(PDF/Word)/Active Listening Worksheets(PDF)】 〈Others〉 Teacher's Manual Data(Word),Text Data (Word)
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Japanese Popular Culture in English: Discussions and Critical Thinking is an engaging popular culture-based textbook developed with the needs and interests of intermediate Japanese students and international students studying in Japan in mind. Aimed to improve reading, discussion, critical thinking, and writing skills, the textbook includes 12 units centered around reading passages written by experts in Japanese culture. The topics are popular with students and include manga, food, animals, and more. Coupled with the reading passage, each unit contains pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading activities to promote comprehension and opinion formation. Furthermore, extension activities at the end of each unit offer students additional research opportunities to build on the topics. Finally, “Global Context” sections link each topic to world issues that can be used in conjunction with the extension activities. Overall, this textbook provides multiple perspectives and is effective in developing critical thinking and English language skills in the classroom.

Unit 1 The Eyes of Manga Characters
Unit 2 Japanese Rituals and Food for the Gods
Unit 3 Animation in Japan
Unit 4 Popular Fiction and Changing Ways of Reading
Unit 5 Japanese Cuisine Goes Global
Unit 6 The Development of Relationships Between Humans and Animals
Unit 7 Changing Forms of Celebrity in Japan
Unit 8 Popular Culture in Food
Unit 9 Cats and their Powerful Inflfluence on Japanese Culture
Unit 10 Language and Japanese Media
Unit 11 Human Rights and Japanese Pop Culture
Unit 12 Cuteness


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