개화기 일본어 학습서 연구의 경향과 과제

Research Trend on Textbooks for the Japanese Language during the Enlightenment Period and Its Future Tasks: The Review of Previous Studies

本研究は、開化期における日本語学習書の発行状況を把握し、日本語学習書研究史を概観したものである。 開化期の日本語学習書は、近代の語学研究の分析対象として活用されていたが、文章および会話文の研究が進むにつれ、日本語教育と関連づけて考察が行われる傾向が見られる。語学的分析においては、主に韓国人著の開化期後期資料が使用されたが、21世紀に入り、日本国会図書館で所蔵している学習書を公開することにより、日本人著書も多様な角度からの考察が行われた。 しかし、研究者の努力にも関わらず日本語学習書について開化期の前期と後期のすべてを包括している研究は存在せず、日本語学習書を通じた日本語教育の目的と意義についてまだ十分な考察はされていない。 今後の研究においては、時期と著者により、日本語教育の目的と意義がどのように変化し、その様子が日本語学習書にどのように現れているかについて明らかにすべきであろう。

The textbooks for the Japanese language in this period were utilised as an analytical object of modern research on languages. As research on sentences and conversations became sophisticated, however, more analyses were presented from the perspective of Japanese language education. Most of linguistic research were initially based on the materials concerning the latter period of the Enlightenment period, produced by Korean scholars. Still, after the books for learners stored in the National Diet Library became open to the public, the materials produced by Japanese scholars were also taken into consideration. Despite researchers’ effort, however, no work was provided that comprehensively analysed both the former and the latter periods of the Enlightenment period. Further, no substantive discussion was presented that analysed the objectives and significances of Japanese language education based on the textbooks for the Japanese language. In future research, we need to reveal a shift in objectives and significances of Japanese language education, depending on the times and the authors, and also to clarify how they are represented in the textbooks for the Japanese language.