The opening of Japanese culture has recently made it easy to see Japanese entertainments including animations, movies, and TV dramas and motivated Korean people to learn the Japanese language. Many researchers are competing to study on the utilizatio...
The opening of Japanese culture has recently made it easy to see Japanese entertainments including animations, movies, and TV dramas and motivated Korean people to learn the Japanese language. Many researchers are competing to study on the utilization of those entertainments for the Japanese class.
This study is to select a Japanese TV drama 'Mask of Glass' and consider its value as an educational material of the Japanese class within the framework of vocabularies and expressions.
As 'Mask of Glass' consists of simple and interesting stories, every one of students and the general public can enjoy watching it and learn living spoken Japanese in various way. As the drama has few slang words and jargons unsuitable for the Japanese class, it could be utilized as good educational materials. Play-related words are frequently used as the drama is concerned with a play. In this respect, teacher's guidance is required.
First of all, the study on the vocabulary of 'Mast of Glass' was conducted by comparing 832 basic words for the 7th Japanese Curriculum and 7,800 basic words for JLPT I and II.
Twelve serials were analyzed. The result has revealed that one serial has 2,570 words and totally 19,847 words.
The basic words for the 7th Japanese Curriculum used in the drama amounted to be 538, 69% of the total 777 words (postpositional word and auxiliary verb exempted from the total 832 words). And those words were used totally 12,056 times in the dram, 61% of the total 19,847 words
The basic words for JLPT I and II used in 'Mask of Glass' amounted to be 1,851. Given that 2,570 words were used in one serial, 72% of those words are the same with basic words for JLPT I and II. And as those 1,851 words were used 17,897 times, the words usage is as high as 90% comparing with the total 19,847 words.
The results has shown that most of the drama consists of basic words required to learn Japanese as the second language. Accordingly, it shows that if an effective teaching method is applied it could be utilized as a good educational material for learning basic Japanese words.
In the perspective of spoken Japanese, the spoken Japanese words and expressions for the 7th Japanese Curriculum are evenly distributed in the dialogue of the drama. Some spoken Japanese words and expressions, not important in the textbooks, are used at the high rate in the drama. Most of them are used at the form of abbreviated expressions. While 「jouongka(拗音化)」 changing from 「で」 to 「しゃ」 and「 hatsuongka(撥音化) 」from 「の 」to 「ん」are scarcely found in the 7th Japanese Curriculum, totally 39 kinds of abbreviations including「 hatsuongka(撥音化)」, elision, 「jouongka(拗音化)」, and 「sokuongka(促音化) 」are used 1,625 times in various forms in the drama ‘Mask of Glass’.
Without the knowledge of abbreviations, it would be completely impossible to understand the meaning with a fundamental form. Accordingly, it is very urgent to understand and reflect the controversial issue in the future Japanese education.
Finally, it is expected that the study on ‘Mask of Glass’ in the perspective of vocabularies and expressions will be used as good references for words and colloquialism important in educating Japanese.