Acts of Reading: Exploring Connections in Pedagogy of Japanese

by Hiroshi Nara, Mari Noda, Chris Brockett, et al.

Students who have completed a year of German read Brecht in their second year, those of Spanish read Cervantes. Teachers of first and second-year Japanese can often find nothing comparable. "Why aren't your students reading literature?" they are asked. "Why not Soseki? Or Murakami?" What are instructors of Japanese doing wrong?

Nothing, according to the authors of this volume. Rather, they argue, such questions exemplify the gross misunderstandings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824822617
• ISBN13: 9780824822613
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"