Communication between High School and College Japanese Language Education: Implications from a Survey on the Use of Video Materials in the United States

Abstract

ABSTRACT This paper presents the results of a survey on the use of video materials at high school and college levels. The study was carried out in an attempt to contribute to better communication between the two levels in Japanese language education in the United States, through the analysis and comparison of the results. The questions posed in this study are: 1) What kinds of videos are used at college and high school levels? 2) What are the purposes of using videotaped material? Although there is similarity between the two groups in that both use commercially available videos largely in a supplemental manner, the comparison between the groups on the purposes of video use suggests different emphasis at the two levels, i.e., “language‐inclusive‐culture” teaching, or to teach the culture, of which the language is a part, at the high school level, and “culture‐inclusive‐language” teaching, or to teach the language and the cultural aspects closely related to the language, at the university level.