Abstract
In Japan, each municipal or prefectural board of education (BOE) is responsible for selecting its own coursebook series to be used in English lessons for nation-wide, compulsory education courses (elementary through junior high school) and in high school. This paper is a report on the investigation of the official governmental websites of five municipal or prefectural BOEs to find what kinds of methods they currently use for the selection process of English coursebooks for junior high school (JHS). The processes employed by the BOEs were examined. It appears that the criteria BOEs use for selection differ and may not be firmly grounded in research on SLA and materials evaluation. Another consequence of the strategies used by BOEs is that they may be less inclined to adopt different coursebook series than those used in previous years. 日本では、各市町村または県の教育委員会(BOE)が、小学校から中学校の義務教育及び高校の英語の授業で使用する独自の教科書を選択する責任がある。本論文では、政府の公式ウェブサイト上の5つの教育委員会を調査して、BOEが中学校英語の教科書採択に現在どのような方法を採用しているかについて報告する。BOEで採用されている教科書採択方法を調べたところ、各BOEによって基準は多少異なり、SLAと教材評価の研究にしっかりと基づいていない可能性がある。BOEによっては、前年度で使用されたものとは異なる英語教科書を採用する事に消極的である可能性もある。
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